Part I of a four part series on great intranets.
“Focus on culture; people drive success, technology is the enabler,” says Burke. “Bring in the champions within each organization of the company to be active change agents.”
Reporting to the CIO, as Chief Knowledge Officer, Gloria Burke owns the intranet and chairs the Intranet Steering Committee, and a Knowledge & CollaborationStakeholders Council with senior leaders from across the company — business units, HR, IT, legal, finance, marketing, global operations, and more.
The Unisys home page features the standard elements including global navigation, search, feature stories and audience news, and features, and links to executive blogs and federated video from its You-Tube channel,. Employees can in fact choose the language of choice for navigating the Unisys intranet, Inside Unisys. My News is targeted specifically to the individual based on region and organization, and language preferences.
However, the impressive elements to the Unisys intranet portal, are the social components. The collaborative approach to a social intranet have delivered impressive results:
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Toby Ward is the Founder and Chair of the Intranet Global Forum conferences, and CEO and Founder of Prescient Digital Media and Social Business Interactive. Toby’s global clients include Harvard, HSBC, Mastercard, Pepsi, Sony, USAA and dozens of others.