A hybrid workplace offers companies a unique chance to diversify their workforce, shake up corporate culture, and find new ways to collaborate.

However, creating and maintaining a hybrid workplace can be a challenge. While 70% of employees value the flexibility of working from home, over 65% feel that they still need the face-to-face time that only in-person work can provide. This suggests that a large number of employees are looking for an environment that allows for a combination of work-from-home and in-office days.

Building a new intranet may seem daunting at first. Companies have many moving parts, and consolidating them into one intranet that is easily navigable for employees to quickly find what they need requires planning.

Even more, building an intranet that employees want to visit and use is also challenge. Maintenance and updates can become convoluted. Employees may not have proper training in its use. Admins may get confused in how the thing actually works. The list goes on. All of this leads to an intranet no one wants to visit or update.

But DO NOT WORRY. We have summarized all the considerations you should make while planning, building, and implementing your new intranet to ensure its success. 

You’ve researched the benefits and decided it’s time to get down to brass tacks: What does a company intranet cost?

Whats all the hubbub about!? You may have heard that Microsoft has recently deployed Office 365 Hub sites to  targeted release tenants! Hub sites are a new way to organize and join your existing SharePoint sites into a centralized hub to allow for rolling up content, sharing themes between sites and maintaining a consistent navigation across multiple sites. This post will focus entirely on the shared navigation that lives on the hub site and why I think it needs a little bit of improvements in it's current state.

Last week Microsoft started releasing hub sites for Office 365. Hub sites are a long awaited feature in the new Modern Office 365 experience. The introduction of Communication sites and Office 365 Groups sites has brought about a new flat architecture for building sites within SharePoint. While sub sites are still available, it is now becoming common practice to build new sites as separate site collections (Groups & Communication sites). However, when you build sites without a hierarchy, it's often difficult to understand which sites may be connected or even how the sites are connected. Hub sites will fix this issue by allowing admins to create a "hub" or a collection of sites under a single global navigation with some very cool content roll-up features. To learn more about hub sites click here.

It’s not easy getting lean, but it’s vital for manufacturers that are seeking a competitive advantage.

According to the Lean Enterprise Research Centre, 60 percent of manufacturing operations are considered waste, which means they add no value to customers.

Before getting into this topic, I have a challenge for you.

Pull up your laptop and think of a client your company has done business with for at least five years. Get your stopwatch ready…

Find the invoices from April 2016, February 2015, and October 2013. GO!!

In case you've missed it, I've been at Microsoft Ignite this week in Orlando. The sessions so far have been incredible, with lots of new updates for Azure, SharePoint, Office365 and more. This morning, I attended a SharePoint session by Jeff Teper. It was so good, I had to immediate get to the blog and start writing.

Which intranet platform is the best fit for your business?

If you are researching the options, you know there are a lot of ways to go here. There are many platforms to choose from, each with its own list of out-of-the-box features and integration options, it’s hard to know one from the next. 

Training is not just for newbies anymore.

The word is out. Enterprise companies that provide training to experienced employees, as well as new ones, not only enhance performance, they also improve morale, retention and compliance.