A valuable strategic asset
August 11, 2009I’m looking for as many Intranet Awards as I can find.
If you have one in your country or an international one, or even an intra-enterprise one, please get in touch.
I want to publicise these awards, and understand what the criteria are for winning! I want to get the best ones on to the decision-makers’ radar.
What makes an intranet business critical?
How can we make the intranet part of the strategic assets of an organization that should be considered when evaluating the value of an enterprise?
Here we go, chronologically…with the awards I know:
The oldest, to my knowledge, started in 2001 and is run by the usability guru team at Nielsen Norman:
Best Intranet Design. It awards the intranets which have outstanding design and usability. (I’m pleased to say that one of my global clients won this a few years ago!)
Another one started in 2007: Step Two Design’s Intranet Innovation Awards. I especially like this one because it does not attempt to evaluate the “whole intranet” (which I personally find impossible to do in the case of global organizations), but rather looks at specific innovations within the intranet.
The goal is to “celebrate new ideas and innovative approaches to the design and delivery of intranets and find these ideas (whether large or small), and to share them with the wider community.”
(Disclaimer: I am one of the judges for Intranet Innovation Awards.)
I have recently become aware of the Intranet Portal Award in Brazil, starting in 2008, organized by the Intranet Portal Institute. Its goal is to recognise portals that “facilitate access to information and knowledge which has become a necessity for those who want to be competitive in a networked economy”. I love this ambition for an intranet/portal award. Very business-focused!
I know there are other awards in Denmark, Germany, Italy and Switzerland, but I don’t have the specific information or links. Please send them to me. I’d like to interview you about the details.
If you organize or are aware of other intranet awards, please get in touch.
We all need to work together to bring intranets up to the decision-maker radar, which is where they belong by definition!