Intranet information architecture: don’t reinvent the wheel
By Toby Ward The ultimate goal of the intranet manager, architect is to create an ‘intuitive’ ... [read more]
Enter IBM.
IBM undertook a ‘galactic’ intranet redesign a few years ago. In fact, it was a departure for Big Blue to undertake a new design that was very ‘Apple’ – very white and grey. However, the design wasn’t a huge hit with employees, and user satisfaction was lower than hoped.
Employee surveys on the IBM intranet home page, called W3, found that satisfaction levels were dropping far too low for the intranet team’s liking: overall satisfaction had dipped to 67%, which meant in some geographies outside of the U.S. it was below 50%. Slow load times were also a frequent complaint of the 400,000 approximate users.
IBM took notice, undertook scads of additional user research, and rolled-out a bold, new, innovative design this past fall. Denoted as Project Butterfly – a broader initiative of which the intranet home page was one component, but also extended to a manager’s intranet hub, mobile apps for employees, etc. The redesign goal: make employees happier and more productive.
At the heart of the redesign though were a number of problems uncovered in the user research:
In other words, IBM took employee feedback to heart and really dove deep into the research to find out what employees really wanted.
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The founder and CEO of Prescient Digital Media, and Social Business interactive, Toby is an internationally recognized and acclaimed expert in the areas of intranets, enterprise technology, intranets, and social media. Among his many clients are Harvard, HSBC, Mastercard, Nintendo, Pepsico, Sony, and many others (download his free white paper on The Social Intranet at www.PrescientDigital.com).
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