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SharePoint Intranets Shouldn’t Make Your Eyes Roll
Recently, I spent the day in a room full of internal communications professionals and much of the day went as expected - conversations about employee experience, storytelling, best practices and things to avoid. But, when the word "intranet" came up, I noticed...
Expert Opinion: Does Good Intranet Design Really Matter?
Intranet design often suffers from a serious case of "meh". It’s like they're stuck in the 90s, with clunky navigation and more quick links than you can shake a floppy disk at. But if your intranet is there to serve a functional purpose, does good visual design...
How to Communicate Change: 4 Ways Your Intranet Can Help
In every organisation change is inevitable. But, the way it's managed can have a significant impact on the employee experience. Whether it's ongoing operational change like new staff or processes, or wide-scale transformation, using your intranet for change...
SharePoint Intranet Design: 3 Key Principles for Great UX
Good UX design is essential for providing positive experiences across your SharePoint intranet and employee communications. Visuals, page structure, and content all impact how your employees engage with your intranet and connect to your organisational values. So the...
Guides
Driving Employee Experience with Microsoft Viva
Driving Employee Experience with Microsoft Viva Why Download This Guide? Learn how to leverage Microsoft Viva and level up your employee experience (EX). This guide includes: Why EX matters Josh Bersin's six pillars of employee experience and what they mean How to use...
How to Deliver Change That Lasts
How to Deliver Change That Lasts Change is inevitable. Carefully crafted change communications and adoption plans can be the difference between a project's success and failure. Learn how internal communications and change teams can deliver real change that...
How UX Can Take You Beyond Accessibility to Inclusive Design
How UX Can Take You Beyond Accessibility to Inclusive Design Learn how strong UX planning and inclusive design could be the catalyst to help you reach new levels of engagement with your SharePoint intranet.About the guide Internal communicators are pivoting...
Improving Intranet Engagement and Adoption
Improving Intranet Engagement and Adoption 90% of intranets fail. Our guide to improving intranet engagement and adoption will help you make sure yours isn't one of them.About the Guide You’ve spent months planning, designing and building your new intranet....
Case Studies
TP ICAP: 7 Day SharePoint Intranet Transformation
No time to read? Skip straight to the before and after. The Challenge TP ICAP is a world-leading liquidity and data solutions specialist, with a team of over 5,000 employees working across 63 offices in 28 countries. People are central to TP ICAP’s success, so...
Storming Success: Met Office’s Award Winning Intranet Sets the Standard for Accessible Collaboration
The Challenge With over 2,000 employees and partners at more than 60 locations around the world, the Met Office is a prime example of a dispersed, disparate workforce. Employees work across multiple time zones in very different conditions, and keeping these employees...
Argent Energy: A New Approach to Document Management with SharePoint
Argent Energy is a European waste-based biodiesel producer with a vision to help decarbonise transport worldwide. Argent Energy believes in using waste materials only and continuously searches for new waste to be turned into higher-value products. Argent...
Hyphen: A new Internal Comms channel
Hyphen is an international architectural firm offering a range of services from initial site appraisals through to post construction close out and evaluation. As well as the quality of their work, Hyphen pride themselves in being advocates for progressive...
Podcast
Series 3, Episode 5 – Alex Graves and Martin Day
Work Happy Podcast: S3 - Episode 5 In the world of modern work efficiency is the name of the game. Enter: the ‘Do More With Less’ ethos. Microsoft have been encouraging organisations to 'Do More With Less', a message which stems back to Microsoft’s...
Series 3, Episode 4 – Craig Smith
Work Happy Podcast: S3 - Episode 4 A brand’s vision and values are integral to the decisions made day to day, but are they imparted onto a business, or rather uncovered to already lie within their DNA? Being over 14 years into a journey of helping businesses...
Series 3, Episode 3 – Asahi
Work Happy Podcast: S3 - Episode 3 There’s an ever-growing link between change management & internal comms across the board, which is clear to see from observing Asahi’s two functions working so closely together. Asahi’s Head of Change Management, Soraya...
Series 3, Episode 2 – Martin Day and Alex Graves
Work Happy Podcast: S3 - Episode 2 Microsoft Viva - Microsoft's employee experience platform - is an incredibly powerful suite of apps. But, to many it presents a dizzying array of tools and we often hear from customers how the sheer volume of apps, updates...