The truth is that while multinationals have clear advantages, their size is also an inherent challenge.

With so many layers of management, many far removed from customers, decision-making can be slow and uncertain. Drawing on the expertise of the whole organisation is good in theory, but tremendously hard when there’s 100,000 staff scattered across 200 countries. Coordinating all the arms of a global business is no easy task.

In total, Phillips had more than 900 intranet sites and 123,000 pages. Transitioning all this content from the old to the new did not make sense as a lot of it was outdated and no longer relevant. Dennis Agusi a former IntraTeam Event speaker share how he got rid of the outdated content. 

When it comes to digital workplace design, Sam Marshall often use the a town planning analogy. If you were asked ‘who owns your town?’ you’d probably answer ‘it belongs to the people’. But when you ask who influences it, then the city council, major businesses, and service providers for transport and utilities will also come into view.

Some of the greatest value the digital workplace can deliver is moving internal services online, making it easier to get things done at less cost to the company. Online HR, training or meeting room booking are just some examples of services that are delivered through the intranet to save money and time.

The problem, as any regular user of these services will know, is that these are often difficult to navigate and use. At best this frustrates users; at worst it undermines trust in the intranet altogether and forces people to use offline channels. 

Shyam O. tackle how to use Office 365 Groups and show you a simple, three-step approach so you can figure out when to use what in Groups.

Microsoft announce the public preview of the new Microsoft Graph reporting APIs, enabling customers to programmatically access the data available within the usage reports. 

Microsoft also launched the new employee quick start guide that helps admins quickly get users started with Office 365 by walking them through the sign-up process, the installation of apps, as well as common scenarios such as saving files to OneDrive.

Microsoft has enabled co-authoring in Excel on Windows desktops for Office Insiders Fast. This allows you to know who else is working with you in a spreadsheet, see where they’re working and view changes automatically within seconds.

After years of incremental progress, the enterprise collaboration industry is currently seeing a burst of innovation that’s led to several new approaches that have real potential to become digital workplace breakthroughs.

Many organizations don’t have all the necessary data to replicate the power big data brings to the table. Still, systems are getting smarter at determining the meaning of words and paragraphs. The problem is enterprise information is usually poorly defined and datasets are dispersed across multiple systems

Mega menus are a type of expandable menu in which many choices are displayed in a two-dimensional dropdown layout. They are an excellent design choice for accommodating a large number of options or for revealing lower-level site pages at a glance.

Web design has improved by leaps and bounds within the past 10 years. Yet there is still a substantial amount of poor UX design today, even with more UX professionals on the job.

Next IntraTeam Event Copenhagen: Feb 27 - Mar 1, 2018 

The winners had very big, bold strategies that were connected to the core elements of the organization. They still had to be fast enough organizationally to execute on those strategies. But it turned out that actually having a good strategy that enabled you to spot the, you know, quote/unquote “where to play” places first was on the margins more important than having the most cutting-edge ability to execute agilely.

Fast food, real estate, hotels, and airlines — many large industries will have to shift their strategies in the wake of driverless cars.