What we’d love to see entered into this year’s Intranet Innovation Awards

Each year, we wait with breathless anticipation to see what entries we’ll get for the Intranet Innovation Awards. Organisations still have until May 31 to enter, so it’s early days yet.

To pass the time, we asked our judges and supporters what sorts of things they’d like to see. We received a wonderfully diverse list of answers:

• best practices in intranet personalisation, in combination with identity management and portal applications
• business benefit from the social side of their intranets/digital workplace
• true support and/or connection to key business processes in the organization
• integration of multiple applications and data sources that provides users with a seamless experience
• application where employees and customers (or suppliers) collaborate (Inter-Enterprise-Collaboration)
• news concept which successfully merges top-down as well as bottom-up and social aspects to communications
• information management concept for Wikis that fosters contribution but manages information overload and lifecycle
• all things done on a PC are done in the same skin and layout
• enterprise mobility
• innovative ways of supporting multiple languages
• use of an intranet by staff who are in a manufacturing/retail environment
• integration of business, product and market data
• social search
• automatically delivering content from other sources
• great ways to keep authors informed and engaged
• workable governance models especially for SharePoint sites

That’s quite a list! It shows that the Intranet Innovation Awards cover a wide spectrum of ideas, and many organisations will have a at least a few solutions or approaches worthy of an award. (Don’t forget: the Awards only judge individual ideas, not intranets as a whole.)

So don’t be shy! Submit an entry this year, or get in touch to get some advice on what to submit.

(Thanks to Erik Hartmann, Jane McConnell, Samuel Driessen, Lukas Karrer, Kurt Sorensen, Martin White, Nina Sonne Nikolaisen, Catherine Grenfell and James Robertson.)