1. Toby Ward is the founder of Prescient Digital Media, an intranet consulting firm that has been providing intranet expertise for 17 years.
2. Prescient Digital uses a dedicated 14-16 month methodology for intranet redesign projects that includes assessment, requirements gathering, planning, design, and deployment phases.
3. A key part of the methodology is developing personas to understand the goals and needs of different user groups to ensure the intranet design is employee-centric. Information architecture, wireframes, and user experience flows are developed based on the personas.
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2001 2005 2011
Expanded client base
across North America
and Europe.
Growth
Expanded solutions for the
entire Digital Workplace.
Digital Workplace
Launched in Toronto.
Start
Full implementation services,
and SharePoint expertise.
Implementation
Focus on assessment, planning,
governance of intranets.
Intranets
Intranet Experts for 17 years
Multiple awards including the prestigious
Webby & Golden Quill Awards.
Awards
2016
New offices in New York City
& Vancouver
New Office Locations
13. 13Assessment
Review, analyze and score
leading intranets versus yours
Benchmarking
Understand, document, analyze
executive and stakeholder
requirements
Business Requirements
A detailed analysis of all findings
and a host (100+ on avg.) of
recommendations
Findings & Recommendations
Understand, document, analyze
employee requirements
User Requirements
Research and analyze
appropriateness and readiness for
social tools
Collaboration readiness
Review, analyze, score more than
400 intranet attributes
Heuristic Assessment
Document the current state & future need
14. 14SWOT Analysis
Gap Analysis
Strengths
What works well, what should be
kept, and enhanced
Weaknesses
What works poorly, and should be
eliminated or completely redesigned
Opportunities
Biggest opportunities for improvement
and focus in the next iteration
Threats
Those threats or barriers to success
that must be directly addressed
15. 15Planning
Review, analyze and score
leading intranets versus yours
Functional Planning
Understand, document, analyze
executive and stakeholder
requirements
Governance
A detailed analysis of all findings
and a host (100+ on avg.) of
recommendations
User Experience
Understand, document, analyze
employee requirements
Business Case & ROI
Research and analyze
appropriateness and readiness for
social tools
Social Planning
Review, analyze, score more than
400 intranet attributes
Strategic Planning
Strategic, functional, and design
19. 19Project Approach
Discovery
Bringing the concept to life
Design & Build
A front-end design leveraging
back-end architecture
Deployment
Completing the play
Coca-Cola Connect project was completed in four phases.
Requirements
Connecting TCCC & redefining myKO
20. 20Strategic Planning
Mission, Goals, Objectives
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GOAL
02
GOAL
03
GOAL
Decrease stale content
Objective 01
Increase employee engagement
Objective 01
Increase user satisfaction
Objective 01
Increase user productivity
Objective 05
05
GOAL
Increase time to market
Objective 06
06
GOAL
Decrease costs
Objective 04
04
GOAL
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• Corporate
• Sales
• Digital Commerce
• Engineering
• Service Management
• Presort
Pitney Bowes | Internal Marketing: Engaging Employees Through Transformation
Personas
Primary personas for the Pitney Bowes Intranet
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Persona: Prav in Engineering
• Prav is always striving to make things better. No matter the size of
the project, he’ll do whatever it takes to ensure that the next
solution is moving things in the right direction.
• Prav tends to get to the office early around the same time every
day. He’ll check in with the rest of his team and find out how his
colleagues are making progress with their work. He’ll discuss what
works and doesn’t work in creating solutions, and then plan on
how to best move forward.
• Most of Prav’s time is spent with other engineering colleagues,
though sometimes he may engage with people from other groups.
Prav spends almost an equal amount of time working
independently as well as collaboratively with colleagues. When
interacting with other colleagues, he will do so both through email
and face to face.
• Prav feels compelled to continue learning in life. He also sees it as
part of his job to understand new technologies, new ideas and
what people are talking about in his industry.
• Since Prav is constantly working to build something more
innovative, he wants to understand how the rest of the company is
also doing the same. He’s also interested in what her other
colleagues are doing that might lead to better solutions.
• Prav’s Goals
• Develop product solutions that meet
the company’s goals and keep clients
happy.
• Learn about new ideas and
technologies that might inform and
improve engineering practices.
• Foster a work environment that leads
to better ideas and solutions.
• Understand how engineering can help
the company in new and different
ways.
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PERSONA INTERNAL CHANNELS EXTERNAL CHANNELS
Corporate
Sales
Digital Commerce
Engineering
Service
Management
Presort
Mapping Priority Channels to Personas
52. 52Key Lessons
The most critical components of intranet design
• Business-driven
• Employee-centric
• Less is more
• Minimal home page
• Minimal colors
• Strong photos