Claire Walker

No-fail planning SharePoint & M365 implementation

No-fail planning SharePoint & M365 implementation

Abraham Lincoln is quoted as having said, “If I had five minutes to chop down a tree, I’d spend the first three sharpening my axe.” It turns out this quote originated many years after the death ...
Halloween special: SharePoint nightmares

Halloween special: SharePoint nightmares

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Streamlining Employee Performance Reviews

Streamlining Employee Performance Reviews

Second only to firing an employee, managers rate formal performance reviews as the task they dislike the most. It often feels forced and awkward, delivering criticism in a constructive way is ...
Managing stakeholders for a successful intranet launch

Managing stakeholders for a successful intranet launch

If you have recently survived an intranet planning meeting, you can appreciate the difficulties faced by our international peacekeepers, trying to achieve harmony when each party sees different ...
SharePoint can solve your top 5 business problems

SharePoint can solve your top 5 business problems

Don’t be fooled. The staff intranet can come across as a warm and fuzzy enterprise where nebulous benefits like “staff engagement” are obtained, where photos of charity morning teas and the ...
Our top Office 365 Tips

Our top Office 365 Tips

If you are working with Office 365, you already know that it’s a complex and powerful set of business tools. It's hard enough to work out whether you are supposed to be using OneNote, Delve, ...
Working like a robot? One might take your job

Working like a robot? One might take your job

Apparently unsatisfied with beating the world's top Go player, Google's AI-powered Alpha computer has gone one better and seems to be creating its own layers of “learning” algorithms, as ...
Build it yourself or get a SharePoint Intranet in a box

Build it yourself or get a SharePoint Intranet in a box

Leave it to IT or get a ready to go SharePoint Intranet? Perhaps you are considering a new Intranet, and wondering if you should check out an "intranet in a box" solution, or have your ...
Stop. Yammer time.

Stop. Yammer time.

Taking a look at the top digital workplace priorities, most organizations highlight connections between colleagues as a key consideration. Collaboration, culture and employee experience also ...
Building communities: Digital Workplaces at Not for Profits

Building communities: Digital Workplaces at Not for Profits

There are around 600,000 not-for-profit organisations (NFPs) in Australia, employing over a million people and involving 4.6 million volunteers[1]. Like the corporate world, not for profit ...
To stay in the game companies need to innovate, but how?

To stay in the game companies need to innovate, but how?

With the sheer range and number of individuals and companies that are upending business models around the world, we are all under pressure. We have to be agile, lean, search for competitive ...
Designing work for the new generation

Designing work for the new generation

Millennials will comprise about 50% of the workforce by 2020[1] and much has been made of this youngest generation of workers, their preferred means of communicating, their expectations of the ...