Building a successful intranet requires an enormous amount of work, and very skilled and capable individuals. To be truly innovative, as is the case of Perkins Eastman, winner of the first Intranet Innovation Awards - Gold Award for communication & collaboration an intranet team has to truly understand the employee audience and deliver superlative content and tools that meet their expectations.
Perkins Eastman won the first Gold Award (see Intranet case study: Perkins Eastman), on the strength of creating an innovative series of online Practice Area Communities (PAC). The PACs are designed to enable knowledge sharing between individuals; across project teams, studios, offices, and practice areas; and the entire international organization.
Each PAC contains key information on a key subject such as “Senior Living” (illustrated above) and features information such as:
- Design practices
- Insights and Lessons Learned
- Project Lists
- Presentations
- Glossary
- Strategic Analysis
- Planning
- Etc.
If you have some truly innovative tools or features on your intranet then I would encourage to apply to this year’s Intranet Innovation Awards – now open for submissions, which must be received by May a6, 2008. Full details on the awards (including the entry form) are at: http://www.steptwo.com.au/iia/
The Intranet Innovation Awards are global awards that celebrate new ideas and innovative approaches to the design and delivery of intranets. Created by Step Two Designs of Australia The Intranet Innovation Awards are truly global awards, supported by a network of intranet-savvy organisations from the US to the UK, Europe and beyond.
All intranet teams are encouraged to enter their innovative approaches to the design or delivery intranets. This may be may be an entirely new piece of intranet functionality, or a good idea implemented particularly well. The awards recognise individual intranet improvements, and not intranets as a whole.
Submissions are received and judged based on four categories:
- core intranet functionality
- communication and collaboration
- frontline delivery
- business solutions
Winners will be showcased in the Intranet Innovations report, as well as in articles, YouTube interviews, online presentations, international conferences and major industry journals.
See last years winners:
http://www.steptwo.com.au/products/iia2007/index.html
Find out how to win an award presentation:
http://www.slideshare.net/jamesr/how-to-win-an-intranet-innovation-award/
Watch video interviews with last year's winners:
http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=JamesRobertsonAu