Presentation about the latest intranet trends based on research from the Worldwide Intranet Challenge (WIC). Also includes three case studies of leading intranets.
2. Agenda
• What is the Worldwide Intranet Challenge?
• What are the most valuable intranet qualities
• Case studies
3. What is the Worldwide Intranet Challenge?
What is the WIC?
Why participate?
Who has done it?
• It’s a web based survey
• Asks users what they think
• About their intranet
• Available in 13 languages
• Measure satisfaction
• Measure before & after
• Motivate the intranet team
• Basis of a business case
• Determine priorities
• Learn tips & tricks
• Over 45,000 people
• In 23 countries
• Over 160 companies
• Including (see all):
•It’s FREE
• To deliver a better intranet
• Nestlé
• Emirates Airline
• British Gas
• Deloitte
• Arup
4. Software used by organisations who have participated in the WIC
Not known, 12.9%
SharePoint, 15.5%
SharePoint 2007, 13.5%
SharePoint 2010, 9.7%
Other, 48.4%
SharePoint
SharePoint
2007
SharePoint
2010
Other
Not known
24
21
15
75
20
155
5. In your opinion, which of the following is the most
important in contributing to a valuable intranet?
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
Look and feel
Ease of finding information
Intranet governance
Staff able to contribute and interact
Performance and availability
Help completing work tasks
Quality of content
6. In your opinion, how important are the following in contributing to a
valuable intranet?
100.0%
7.3%
12.0%
10.9%
25.9%
32.7%
34.5%
39.8%
26.4%
75.0%
35.8%
37.3%
42.5%
50.0%
43.2%
45.1%
39.9%
66.2%
52.2%
25.0%
51.9%
31.6%
24.1%
20.4%
20.3%
Look and feel
Staff able to
contribute &
interact
0.0%
Ease of finding
information
Performance &
availability
Quantity & quality Help completing
of content
work tasks
provided
Critical
Very Important
Intranet change
management &
maintenance
Important
7. 0.400
0.350
0.300
Total - Interactivity
Time
Documents
Work instructions
Intranet improvement
Online forms
News
Policies & procedures
Staff details
Publish content
Total - Content
Intranet feedback
Business applications
Total - Maintenance
Values & culture
External web sites
Look & feel
Work tasks
Training
Intranet changes
Home page
Total - Look and feel
Products & services
Collaboration
New starters
Forms
Intranet training
Discussion forums
Easy to read
Find information
Consistency
Finding information
Navigation
Re-usable documents
Labelled
Accurate content
Hierarchy
Reports
Customers
Templates
Up-to-date content
Change notification
Total - Peformance
Search
Calendars
Availability
Off-site access
Personalisation
Speed
Mobile access
Correlation value
Correlation of WIC questions to intranet value
0.500
Interactivity
Question categories
0.450
Finding
Information
Interactivity
Content
Maintenance
Look and feel
Finding information
Performance
0.250
0.200
0.150
0.100
0.050
0.000
12. What if the
problem is NOT
that people can’t
find what they
want…
… but that the
content doesn’t exist
in the first place
13. How often do you use the intranet to:
100.0%
6.6%
90.0%
8.2%
8.6%
8.4%
80.0%
70.0%
60.0%
50.0%
Approximately 90% of staff
do not regularly contribute
to the intranet.
29.0%
28.5%
39.3%
23.9%
More than 50% never do
40.0%
30.0%
56.9%
55.0%
56.7%
50.1%
20.0%
10.0%
0.0%
Publish content
Never
Discuss work topics
Infrequently
2-3 times a month
Collaborate online
2-3 times a week
Provide feedback
More than once a day
14.
15. 1. Not enough priority given to persuading
people to contribute
2. People don‟t know what they should be
contributing
3. Not enough priority given to change
management
16.
17. Disagree
Not sure
Agree
I can find the information I need on the intranet
3.00
2.68
2.62
2.50
2.50
2.39
2.24
2.48
2.27
2.23
2.19
------------------------------------------------------------------------average ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2.32
1.96
2.00
1.50
1.00
Collaborate online
Publish content
Discuss work topics
Top 20%
Provide feedback
Interactive - Total
Bottom 20%
Overall value of intranet
Neutral or
indifferent
Useful
Very
useful
3.50
3.00
2.83
2.84
2.81
2.82
2.96
2.51
2.50
--------------------------------------------------------------------------average ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2.66
2.43
2.42
2.36
2.50
2.00
1.50
1.00
Collaborate online
Publish content
Discuss work topics
Top 20%
Bottom 20%
Provide feedback
Interactive - Total
18. What type of content
should people be
publishing?
19. Which intranet content types are most useful?
100.0%
11.3%
26.7%
80.0%
63.8%
63.6%
37.1%
37.6%
42.1%
25.8%
21.3%
62.3%
60.0%
29.4%
43.4%
34.8%
39.4%
33.5%
40.0%
36.2%
28.1%
24.9%
20.0%
29.1%
30.5%
19.5%
20.8%
18.6%
10.0%
5.0%
16.3%
‘Signal’ content more
valuable than ‘noise’
content
5.9%
0.0%
1 - Not useful
2
3
4
5 - Useful
20. 0.450
0.400
0.350
0.300
Total - Interactivity
Time
Documents
Work instructions
Intranet improvement
Online forms
News
Policies & procedures
Staff details
Publish content
Total - Content
Intranet feedback
Business applications
Total - Maintenance
Values & culture
External web sites
Look & feel
Work tasks
Training
Intranet changes
Home page
Total - Look and feel
Products & services
Collaboration
New starters
Forms
Intranet training
Discussion forums
Easy to read
Find information
Consistency
Finding information
Navigation
Re-usable documents
Labelled
Accurate content
Hierarchy
Reports
Customers
Templates
Up-to-date content
Change notification
Total - Peformance
Search
Calendars
Availability
Off-site access
Personalisation
Speed
Mobile access
Correlation value
Correlation of WIC questions to intranet value
0.500
Question categories
Signal
Noise
Interactivity
Content
Maintenance
Look and feel
Finding information
Performance
0.250
0.200
0.150
0.100
0.050
0.000
23. Case Study: nSynergy
Worldwide Intranet Challenge rankings:
• #1 Discuss work topics
• #1 Collaborate with other staff
• #2 Publish content
• #3 Provide feedback or comments about
intranet content
The Noise
Key design principle: Reduce the need for email
24. “Since implementing social collaboration
technology, email traffic has reduced by
a staggering 50 per cent company-wide”
“A very powerful tool to arm your
employees with as it helps protect
you from developing silos”
“It‟s the place where people build real
relationships with colleagues in other
locations”
“Social interaction helps people be
more productive, useful and visible
also results in higher engagement
and satisfaction levels”
“it helps to achieve sustained adoption
of your intranet, adding continuous
value to your employees (and your
business)”
“I have found it much more engaging
and useful than any intranet I have
used in other companies”
27. Case Study: Government Organisation
Worldwide Intranet Challenge rankings:
Top 10%
• Instructions for completing work tasks
• Policies and procedures
• Publish content
The Signal
Key design principles:
• Make it easy for staff to publish FAQs
• Integrate publishing into daily work - sustainable
32. Case Study: Weston Solutions
Worldwide Intranet Challenge rankings:
• #1 Overall ranked intranet
• #1 For many of the questions
• First benchmark ranked #77
Change
Management
Key design principles:
• Support Weston Solutions business objectives
• Strong emphasis on change management
• Must support staff’s daily business activities
34. Approach to change management
•
Followed Dr. John Kotter‟s 8 step
process for leading change
•
Conducted town hall meetings to
spread the word
•
A “Five for Five” plan: employees
spend five minutes talking about the
Portal with a portal committee
member in exchange for a $5 gift
certificate
•
One-page Quick Start Guides with
examples of usage and success that
are shared every two weeks
•
A competition between business units
to update profiles
•
Weekly brown bag sessions, offered
virtually and locally to share best
practices
•
A portal “minute” before every
company meeting including quick
“did you know” statements and best
practices about the portal
•
A “30 for 30”: an online meeting that
offers 30 portal tips in 30 minutes
Complete videos series at:
worldwideintranetchallenge.com
35. Recap
• Staff participation should be #1 priority
• An interactive intranet is a valuable intranet
• More time on intranet is a GOOD thing
• „Qualified‟ content more valuable than
„unqualified‟ – though integrally related
• Change management key to success
First thing – get people to complete the online survey. After viewing results, the goal of the session is to convince you that you have got this back to front.When I first started developing the material for this presentation it was supposed to be about finding information. And how delivering content with a meaningful context would expedite this. After all, finding information is the biggest problem people have with intranets right? Well as I analysed the data, something even more important became apparent and startling
Why did I start the WIC? Had a feeling – like many people - that intranets have huge untapped potential for improving the way we work. From giving people more freedom and control over where and how they work to taking away the sysphiun condition
Please complete the survey
Explain how this has been a dilemma for a while. The possible solution is that the content doesn’t exist in the first place. Lets look at the evidence.
Represents a treasure chest of information
If this hypothesis is right – it should be easier to find information for those organisations where there is a high level of contribution and hard to find information where there is a low level of contribution? This is fact the case. By now, I am 90% convinced the problem with finding information in the intranet is not search, lack of meta data, poor information architecture – but lack of quality content. People don’t want to contribute. Definitely my personal experience. At least not on an ongoing or sustainable basis.
So if we agree that finding information is not the problem – it’s content. Note – the different types of content and how important they are considered in the survey. What can we do about it?
The content types here seem roughly to match those in the survey results – qualified content is more valuable than WIP/Collaborative content. Also important to distinguish between different content types – the signal and the noise – quality content V collaborative content. One more valuable than the other.