robust intranet/digital workplace navigation
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INTRANET/DIGITAL WORKSPLACE NAVIGATIONKURT KRAGH SØRENSENINTRATEAM A/S
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KURT KRAGH SØRENSEN• Worked with intranets since 2000• Facilitated Community of Practice groups since 2002• Benchmarked intranets since 2005• International conference about intranet since 2006• @KurtKragh • @IntraTeam
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ABOUT INTRATEAM• 200 members of our 20 communities of practice in Denmark and Sweden – Primarily focused on intranet and the digital workplace
• 2,600+ profiles on our online community www.IntraTeam.com
• Community about optimizing the intranet and the digital workplace
• @IntraTeam 5,000+ followers• IntraTeam Event Copenhagen
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AGENDA• Introduction and your challenges• Strategy and goals• Target groups• Find your colleagues’ tasks• Shortlisting• Prioritize the tasks• Find the top level navigation• Test it
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ABOUT YOU?• Communication?• Consultant?• Responsible for your intranet?• Responsible for findability/navigation?• Responsible for collaboration?• Relaunching your intranet• Can your colleagues find what they are looking for on your intranet?
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CHALLENGES• Too many want their project, product or department in the top
navigation or on the homepage• Not many can find what they are looking for in the organizationally
focused navigation• Hard to satisfy everybody• Some understand the menu; others don’t• Hard to prioritize• IT and/or technical vendor don’t see the problem
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Where are:•Products/Services?•News?•Minutes from the last meeting?•Projects?•Competitions in the top level menu?
Home Knowledge Information Employee Reports Competitions
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HOW DID YOU FIND YOUR NAVIGATION?
•Workshop with the vendor one or two days?•You or a small team made your navigation?• Involved a lot of people?
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Internal communication and sharing knowledge are tools
- and not goals!
- that the CEO will give much attention!
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Beat the Competition
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Help your CEO to implement his strategy
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WHATWHAT TASKS SHOULD YOU INCLUDE?
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TARGET GROUPSWhich target groups do you have for your
intranet?
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Find ALL the tasks
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WHERE DO YOU FIND THE TASKS?• Business strategy• Stakeholder interviews • Workplace observations• Existing intranet • Top search results• Most visited pages • Other intranets• Relevant medias (personnel magazine/Notice boards)• Employee feedback/research
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IMPORTANT• Include every department, location, business unit etc.• Influential employees•Trouble makers•C-level•Managers
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“Just get rid of the crappy stuff and focus on the good stuff.”
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NOT TOO HIGH IN THE STRUCTURE•People•HR• IT•Global
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NOT TOO LOW EITHER•Product X manual•Parental leave
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NO INTERNAL LANGUAGE•Dealer locator•BBC Fleet
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NO DEMOGRAPHICS•Headoffice•Business Units
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NO FORMATS•PDF•Word document•Excel spreadsheet•PowerPoint•Video
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NO DUPLICATES• Forum• Discussion
• Product Description• Product Facts
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NO VERBS•Organize Leave -> Leave•Manage Benefits -> Benefits•Access Training -> Training•Resolve an Issue -> Issues•Search Jobs -> Jobs
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AVOID REPETITION•Organization charts •Organization facts and figures •Organization history •Organization magazines •Organization news
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COMPLETE•Make sure you get tasks from
• Every department, location, business unit etc.• Influential employees• Trouble makers• C-level• Managers
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ONE AT A TIME•Marketing material & tools•News & Events
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SHORT•Max. 7 words / 55 characters
FinalShortlistChecklist
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CLEAR AND PRECISE• Not too high• Not too low• No brands• No internal terms• No demographics• No formats• No abbreviations• No verbs
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CLEAR AND PRECISE (CONTINUED)•No repetitions•Complete•One at a time•Max. 7 words / 55 characters•No duplicates
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SURVEY•Representative share from each target group answer the survey
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DANISH DAIRY COMPANY1.Long list
2652.Short list
70
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EXERCISE • Please look at the list and choose the top FIVE most useful tasks for you on your intranet Give a score of 5 to the most important, 4 to the next most important, then 3, 2, 1.
• Please give only one score of 5, one 4, one 3, one 2, and one 1. Leave the rest blank.
• Note: The list has been ordered alphabetically to make it easier to review. Be careful not to be unduly influenced by words that are near the top of the list.
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Top 5 tasks always gets more than 25% of the votes.
70% of the least voted tasks gets less than 3% of the votes.
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OPTIMAL SORT – OPTIMAL WORKSHOPHOW TO FIND THE TOP NAVIGATION
Optimal Workshop
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How to test your navigation
TESTING
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TREEJACKOPTIMAL WORKSHOP
How to test your navigation
Optimal Workshop
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RECAP• Strategy and goals• Target groups• Find your colleagues’ tasks• Shortlisting• Prioritize the tasks• Find the top level navigation• Test it
Thank you for your patience
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