New Intranet and Client Portal for Select Projects
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Our firm has recently rolled out a new social intranet. This shall foster a more collaborative and engaging environment for knowledge sharing and communication. As a result, this improvement will benefit both internal and external interactions.
After taking a look at many different options to enhance our process and further bring our clients into the experience of architectural design, we settled upon the Igloo Community platform. Therefore, this decision allows us to centralize many of our ideas, knowledge, and general best practices for architectural design.
Key Takeaways
- The firm has launched a new Intranet and Client Portal using the Igloo Community platform to enhance collaboration and knowledge sharing.
- Igloo exceeds basic social collaboration tools by offering advanced knowledge management and corporate governance features.
- It fosters true engagement with features like newsfeeds and discussion forums, promoting bottom-up communication.
- The platform organizes information in searchable folders or wikis, ensuring easy collaboration on project documents.
- Igloo supports user adoption by providing ongoing assistance throughout the digital transformation journey.
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To further emphasize and improve our digital workplace, the new Intranet will help facilitate the efforts from our employees. This as well as for consultants and clients on select projects. In addition, it will do so for our company as a whole.
Below is a quick snap shot of the features and benefits that will be employed and developed to enhance the value and productivity at 8TFive Studio. The excerpts and images are taken from Igloo’s public website at https://igloosoftware.com/intranet-services/
Igloo is a leading provider of digital workplace solutions, helping companies design and build inspiring digital destinations.
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More than a social collaboration tool
Social collaboration tools like Workplace by Facebook, Yammer, and Slack make it easy for employees to connect with each other at work. But they fall short if you’re looking for a solution with advanced knowledge management and corporate governance features.
Igloo is built for business. It creates connections between people at work, but not at the expense of productivity or engagement. Social interactions take place within the context of work. As a result, it’s easy to understand what activities are critical vs. extracurricular.
More than a company news blog
Top-down communication is an essential part of employee communications. Many companies use leadership blogs or mass emails to distribute company updates. However, true engagement happens when conversations are driven from the bottom up.
With interactive features like newsfeeds and discussion forums, Igloo gives employees a channel to interact with (and celebrate) each other, from wherever they are.
More than a glorified document share
With shared drives or file-sharing apps like Box or Dropbox, it’s difficult to know which documents exist and where they’re all kept. Plus, there’s no simple way to collaborate on documents in context of your project.
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With Igloo, your information can be stored as documents in searchable folders or as articles in a wiki that can be updated by anyone on your project team. Also, you can set permissions by group, so you know everyone who needs access has it, without ever involving IT.
More than just another tool people won’t use
Some technology solutions take a long time to implement. And once they’re up and running, the real challenge kicks in: getting people to adopt it as part of their daily routine.
At Igloo, we don’t just hand you the product and walk away. Instead, we stick with you throughout the journey to help you design, build, and evolve an engaging digital destination that people will actually use.
Neil has over 20 years’ experience on a range of large (15,000 sf) and small (500 sf) residential, non-profit, and commercial projects with a small business focus. He has two kids with his wife, Victoria, and loves family time camping, hiking, and traveling. While he grew up in New England, Neil is a diehard Buffalo Bills fan!
