10 Innovative Intranet designs in 10 minutes

Editor's Notes

1. It’s time to take a quick trip around the world and see 10 innovative intranets in 10 min… so we’ll need to take the jet!
2. We’ve heard lots about all kinds of design today and more tomorrow but what makes an intranet different? Why aren’t they quite there in terms of design?
3. the intranet is still coming along behind in lots of cases. The good news is that the gap is closing
4. Innovation for me is a mix of originality (in the intranet world) and impact on the business and it’s usersIhavent quite got around to all 500 attendees at the conference yet, but a special shout out needs to go to those that may have worked on any of the examples today. Ian and Octavia if you are in the room, seek them out and find out more.
5. So jump aboard its time to take flight…
6. How many of you have ever spent longer than you’d like finding a carpark? University campuses are the worst!Well QUT have made it easy….linking to their parking system
7. How many of you would love to know what your kids are learning at school? Their strengths, areas for improvement, upcoming assessment, look back to previous years and see regular comments and input from teachers? Well Calgary board of education have done it..having everything from kindergarten to year 12Each student gets a personalised public school experience.
8. Here, students can write notes about their own goals, strategies, and progress – complete with the ability to add images and video. This profile is available for a student’s teacher to view as a way to keep up with each learner. Students can comment and post updates about their education, creating a timeline they can reflect on as they move through the school system.
9. Teachers no longer have to bring together the guiding documents, the most significant and authoritative resources are available on the resources page.
10. Barclays have 45K staff in the customer network. Their intranet authenticates the user through their staff number. As you can imagine security is paramount.22% uplift in employee engagementStaff can keep up to date with news and personal development when it suits themThose of you that have ever managed an authoring community – colleague generated content has increased from 0 to 124 best practice videos of bank’s key processes and are viewed on average by more than 400 users a day
11. Available on mobile devices – a bank employee recently did a travel insurance quote whlist on holidays skiing – it was that quick and easy.
12. With a large percentage of their workforce not in front of a computer CCE, mobilising news saw a 50% increase in readership
13. Approving and requesting leave was the next most obvious option for mobile based on staff needs
14. Followed closely with the payslip app.. Replacing paper and all this delivered in 9 languages
15. Klick Health – Digital Health Agency… The locator lets you know where employees are normally seated, if they are out you can subscribe to an alert to let you know when they are in the office – creepy!
16. "You've just come out of a meeting with a potential client. Based upon that face to face conversation you have a better understanding of what their particular requirements, challenges and expectations are. With those things fresh in your mind, follow up your meeting with a bespoke marketing pack (an Arup ‘calling card’, if you will) that contains examples of our project track record (images and text) tuned to illustrate that potential client’s particular requirements and our ability to deliver them."
17. Select the relevant case studies to include in the marketing pack and they appear in your email inbox
18. Special shout out to Octavia if she is in the room on this one… AMP have created a single online community. Integrating traditional ‘intranet’ with collaboration’Centered around timebased activity feed with a filter allowing you to zoom in
19. Visual landing pages quickly getting you to what you need
20. And taking mega menus to the next level inline in the page
21. One from the animators that created Avatar… FramStore have a fully customisable intranet, allowing you to Choose your width
22. Choose your configuration – what do you need to do your job
23. Even with the choice of what tea or coffee your team drink… White with one please….
24. Back to Australia now With over 140,000 staff and a sea of intranets…went from thisShout out to IAn
25. To this
26. Solving the initial complexity of what to do with a sea of intranets into a manageble state
27. HQ in the US with offices around the globe – design agencyAppeal to some of youAs a global organsiation, CoLab allows for sharing of ideas and was created to build a culture of bringing smart people togetherEnables their global feel, connects staff, supports learning and sharing of ideas and helps them better understand each other
28. Their pulse page allows them to connect and shareI particularly like the library which stocks all of their brand materials, case studies and examples available on any device to easily show clients
29. Welcome home