Employee Engagement using the Interactive Intranet

The Interactive Intranet is an Intranet that has been enabled with web 2.0 tools in order to facilitate interactions between the organisation and its employees and communication and collaboration between the employees themselves.
It is important, as an organisation, to use the Interactive Intranet to engage with your employees rather than merely using it as a [...]

Configuring the Intranet to deliver on the organisational objectives

The Interactive Intranet is an Enterprise-wide web application which provides the underlying web based support to employees across the organisation. It is the digital manifestation of the business and should form the strategic backbone of everything the organisation does.
In order to ensure that the Interactive Intranet delivers on the organisation’s key business goals and [...]

Pulling the Levers

Websites and applications are becoming more mainstream as marketing tools. Marketers are starting to realise that the modern website is becoming the strategic backbone to all their marketing activities and requires extensive investment in terms of thinking and management.
A couple of years ago I went to Palo Alto to understand what was going on in [...]

Can South African Banks regain their Reputations after the Economic Crisis?

The financial crisis of 2008 spawned not just a deep recession but a structurally different business environment globally. This restructured economic order, requires some new thinking, particularly for retail banks.
Many retail banks responded instinctively to the recession, without giving any thought to the aftermath of their actions, and there is a growing perception they have [...]

10 Considerations for starting a web-based business in South Africa

Creating on-line Businesses in South Africa requires robust strategic planning and ongoing operational investment.

Creating Productive Work Environments using Enterprise 2.0

The modern Intranet is a strategic tool for managing knowledge workers

Mitigating the economic downturn by unlocking the power of the web

Web 2.0 offers an unparalleled opportunity for businesses to compete and thrive in a time of mounting economic difficulty – yet incredibly many have little idea of what 2.0 means. Far too often, it is dismissed as a buzzword – but it could hold the key to the survival of many businesses as the slowdown [...]

The Importance of Usability Testing

Usability Testing is a critical step in getting your audience to keep using your application

Creating High Performance Organisations Using Interactive Intranets

The drivers of high performance organisations should be leveraged through Interactive Intranets

Systems Theory and The Network Effect – Could the Internet solve the Global Economic Crisis?

Could the combination of the Network effect, Mass Collaboration and the New Internet create an economic order that will change the we this global economic melt down pans out?