Hi Nisha,
Could you suggest some strategies, share your experiences, and provide expert observations to increase the usage of the intranet, making it popular and ultimately a great success where every employee would want to visit because there is something valuable for them - informative, participative, helpful, and beneficial.
Do you have any ideas to share? Please provide some input here.
Looking forward to your response.
Best regards
From India, Pune
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Could you suggest some strategies, share your experiences, and provide expert observations to increase the usage of the intranet, making it popular and ultimately a great success where every employee would want to visit because there is something valuable for them - informative, participative, helpful, and beneficial.
Do you have any ideas to share? Please provide some input here.
Looking forward to your response.
Best regards
From India, Pune
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Hello Nisha,
Here is something generated out of Randomized idea generation 😉.
There is tons and tons of stuff you can do to your Company Intranet.
You know if you have a reason to do it once - you are bound to do it more than once.
Well one fine day along with your Network Administrator change the link of the Intranet or make it invisible. That will get the intranet a lot of attention. That's the media approach, however 😂.
Back to reality:
First things first, what are you looking forward to add/change/upgrade to your existing system?
Do you have the count on how many people log in daily?
In one company I worked, they had very cleverly linked their online attendance system to the Intranet - that means everybody had to log in compulsorily!!! Once they got there, you can take them to places with your content.
Simple ways to do that could be by having regular updates like "thought for the day," "joke of the day," "wise sayings of the day."
Birthday wishes are a common thing - I am sure you will have that already.
Well, you can look at the most variable part - look at newspapers, they will give you ideas. Have it linked to some horoscope sites if you have a young crowd. Have it linked to movie/entertainment sites where they can decide and plan their weekends. My personal favorite is introducing a search engine which allows them to search the internet through the intranet. See if your IT guys can provide you support. In these cases, I, along with my Network Admin, strictly control what they surf and send through the internet.
Have something for everybody like articles, jokes, forums, contests, and competitions. Have a virtual fun @ work module. Introduce those 5-minute free flash games/brain teasers which help you to de-stress.
Like I said, there is plenty. You can promote your Organization Culture by having online communities and knowledge forums. Moreover, you can support your Training & Development Team on their e-learning initiatives.
Have free e-books uploaded, job postings if you are a big group already.
Get voting polls on where the next picnic should be or whether graffiti should be put up on office walls (just kidding). Get them to fill online questionnaires/feedback forms on presentations by colleagues or their field customer stories.
With the partying season still on, decide what should be the next event or training session they would like to have.
So I guess you can do plenty with what I have said above. There really is no end to it. Once this helps you going fine for 15 months, you will again have to introduce something new. Use the Utilitarian approach and keep the bottom line as learning.
Learn and share as much as you can in this "Information Age on this Information highway" so that they have a reason to remember you and your work.
Best Wishes,
NiNad (Nad)
From India, Mumbai
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78Here is something generated out of Randomized idea generation 😉.
There is tons and tons of stuff you can do to your Company Intranet.
You know if you have a reason to do it once - you are bound to do it more than once.
Well one fine day along with your Network Administrator change the link of the Intranet or make it invisible. That will get the intranet a lot of attention. That's the media approach, however 😂.
Back to reality:
First things first, what are you looking forward to add/change/upgrade to your existing system?
Do you have the count on how many people log in daily?
In one company I worked, they had very cleverly linked their online attendance system to the Intranet - that means everybody had to log in compulsorily!!! Once they got there, you can take them to places with your content.
Simple ways to do that could be by having regular updates like "thought for the day," "joke of the day," "wise sayings of the day."
Birthday wishes are a common thing - I am sure you will have that already.
Well, you can look at the most variable part - look at newspapers, they will give you ideas. Have it linked to some horoscope sites if you have a young crowd. Have it linked to movie/entertainment sites where they can decide and plan their weekends. My personal favorite is introducing a search engine which allows them to search the internet through the intranet. See if your IT guys can provide you support. In these cases, I, along with my Network Admin, strictly control what they surf and send through the internet.
Have something for everybody like articles, jokes, forums, contests, and competitions. Have a virtual fun @ work module. Introduce those 5-minute free flash games/brain teasers which help you to de-stress.
Like I said, there is plenty. You can promote your Organization Culture by having online communities and knowledge forums. Moreover, you can support your Training & Development Team on their e-learning initiatives.
Have free e-books uploaded, job postings if you are a big group already.
Get voting polls on where the next picnic should be or whether graffiti should be put up on office walls (just kidding). Get them to fill online questionnaires/feedback forms on presentations by colleagues or their field customer stories.
With the partying season still on, decide what should be the next event or training session they would like to have.
So I guess you can do plenty with what I have said above. There really is no end to it. Once this helps you going fine for 15 months, you will again have to introduce something new. Use the Utilitarian approach and keep the bottom line as learning.
Learn and share as much as you can in this "Information Age on this Information highway" so that they have a reason to remember you and your work.
Best Wishes,
NiNad (Nad)
From India, Mumbai
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Hi Nisha,
We recently rolled out a similar initiative. I will outline the process of how we executed it, which may be beneficial for you.
We conducted a dipstick survey with the assistance of our regional HR teams at various locations. The aim was to identify the information that staff members frequently approach HR for. We compiled a detailed list of these queries at the corporate level, and we also gathered input from regional HR teams on the top 20 queries they routinely address.
A separate multimedia team was tasked with developing different prototypes of the website, which were then refined based on feedback from the corporate team.
One innovative feature that we introduced is the "search an employee" function. Given that a significant portion of our staff is mobile, employees were interested in knowing the whereabouts of their colleagues. This system enables them to easily locate their batchmates.
I trust this information proves helpful.
Best regards,
Joydeep
From India, New Delhi
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We recently rolled out a similar initiative. I will outline the process of how we executed it, which may be beneficial for you.
We conducted a dipstick survey with the assistance of our regional HR teams at various locations. The aim was to identify the information that staff members frequently approach HR for. We compiled a detailed list of these queries at the corporate level, and we also gathered input from regional HR teams on the top 20 queries they routinely address.
A separate multimedia team was tasked with developing different prototypes of the website, which were then refined based on feedback from the corporate team.
One innovative feature that we introduced is the "search an employee" function. Given that a significant portion of our staff is mobile, employees were interested in knowing the whereabouts of their colleagues. This system enables them to easily locate their batchmates.
I trust this information proves helpful.
Best regards,
Joydeep
From India, New Delhi
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