The world of Pulse

Access anywhere, anytime on any device using a digital workplace in the browser. Real-time collaboration in the same documents. Easier to communicate with colleagues abroad. This has become possible for the Johan Cruyff Foundation with a modern digital workplace based on the Office 365 suite.

Many organizations carry out the implementation of a digital work environment as if it’s an IT project. They make Office 365 a priority and they also want to do something with a social intranet. Involve other stakeholders to! In this blogitem I share lessons learned from a business perspective.

This year I attended my first Microsoft Inspire. Central to many of the conversations I had with people during #msinspire was adoption and change management, a subject that is very dear to me. Based on a meetup on adoption I facilitated I made a short presentation with the most important take aways.

Almost everyone has a computer at their workplace. But how do you make sure your staff can actually work successfully in this computer workplace?

My favorite speaker of last Thursday's Congres Intranet in Utrecht is James Robertson, a well-known intranet expert based in Sydney, Australia. I've joined both his keynote and his session about the purposes of modern intranets. It was a great recognition of how we've designed Synigo Pulse. Forget the old internal push communication medium, it's all about the end user now.

PharmAccess combines Office 365, SharePoint and Synigo Pulse for a personalized intranet "to improve healthcare access in Sub-Saharan Africa". Angela from the Field Operations Team in Kenya shares how they adopted collaborative working practices as a team using Pamoja (nickname of their social intranet).