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2017 Intranet Design Annual Winners

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Congratulations to the 2017 Intranet Design Annual Award winners!

Bank of America, NA

Bank of America created HR Connect to simplify and improve its employees’ online HR experience and to help them take advantage of all the benefits available to them at the bank. A strong site structure, personalized information, and clearly written content combine to create a unified global HR experience.

Team members shown here (top row, left to right): Chris Simpkins, Chris Christie, Mike Fields, and Christine Weber; (bottom row, left to right): Judi Hagen, Linda Brown, Ashley Anderson, Kristin Schultz.

Encana Corporation

Consolidated is the best word to describe ECN, Encana’s intranet. With a litany of challenges to overcome, the team focused on short-term goals and wins to help derive an outstanding design. News, tools, and engaging features entice employees to read and participate, while the team’s efforts to inventory, audit, and consolidate elements — from the IA to policies — make the design slick and innovative.

Team members shown here (top row, left to right): Debbie Bender, Omar Sultan, Monica Seymour, and George Loos; (second row, left to right): Heather Murray, Andrea Romain, Ryan Kazmerik, and Ben Nwachukwu; (third row, left to right): Rick Rosario, Tim Maxwell, Heide Calderon Ghelfi, and Marcelo Zaquia; (fourth row): Judy Fisher.

Goldcorp, Inc.

Conveyor supports Goldcorp’s 5,500 information employees in offices and mines alike, working above and below ground in Canada and Latin America. The site consolidates helpful applications with thorough news and communication, while the polished design gilds the site in more ways than one.

Goldcorp team members shown here (in person, left to right): Jaime Chica, Jose Szucs, Kathryn Gendall, Damon Sas, and Paula Grimsmo; (on screen, left to right): Mumtaz Chaudhary, Enrique Gamboa, Luciano Campana, and Mischa Krawzow.
Habanero team members shown here (in person, left to right): Sal Belal, Jan Groenendijk, Melanie Gabanna, Cameron Sielski, Stephen Brown, David Webb, Elena Rosu, Lara Beaton, and Larry Lau; (on screen, left to right): Oleg Bystrov, Chris Radcliffe, Dan Beck, Christopher Parsons, Daniel Rotenberg, Bradley Smith, and Toni Albert.

Goodwill Industries International, Inc. 

Transitioning from a site with an overgrown, employee-generated folksonomy to one with a clearly defined taxonomy helped the Goodwill Industries International intranet become a place for employees to share best practices, resources, and information with its numerous local, independent member organizations.

Team members shown here (back row, left to right): Joe Shaw, Ben Herring, Sarah Newhard, Teresa Weller, Arlene McCrehan, Jenni Baker, and Chirag Patel. (front row, left to right): Beth Perell and Jerry Callistein.

IBM Corporation 

How do you make an intranet work for a half a million workers with extremely varied job roles? If you’re IBM, you assemble a large and talented team, push open source to its limits, and improve Agile by creating a dedicated user research scrum team with its own research backlog. Then come up with a winning responsive design that features personalization and flexible cards.

Team members shown here (left to right): Lisa Papa, Janis Pasquale, Kristin Wisnewski, Gary Kuo, Tom Lawless, Tom Hawkins, Donn Jasura, Mike Fields, Lyle Watt, Siddiq Nassar, Colin Crehan, Josh Hansen, Max Pugliese (obscured), Steven Black, Jason Blackwell, Greg Golden, Fletcher Previn, and Mark Wise.

JetBlue

Supporting a very strong, positive company culture, HelloJetBlue offers a combination of resources, tools, and news packaged in a friendly, imaginative way. The intranet keeps JetBlue’s employees, known as Crewmembers, motivated and firmly grounded, even while soaring above the clouds.

Team members shown here (standing, left to right): Jared Laham, Paul Kelley, Thomas Saraceno, David Tufts, and Marcel Moreau; (seated, left to right): Katie Desmond and Jeff Turcotte.

Kerry Group plc

The mykerry intranet uses new social sharing and collaboration tools together with robust employee profiles to help employees find information and connect with one another. In just nine months, the team created a SharePoint site that helps employees communicate across five continents and 50 different countries.

Team members shown here (top row, left to right): Gillian O’Halloran, Paul MacDonald, Robert McWhinney, Adnan Ahmed, Liam McCambridge, and Nicole Hesser; (bottom row, left to right): Noelle Watts, Tony Bergin, Jim Egan, Michele Caldwell, Noel McDermott, and Gemma Lougheed.

Latvian Railway: State Joint Stock Company “Latvijas dzelzceļš”

The Latvian Railway intranet provides equivalent information, regardless of device, for all site users. The responsive site integrates a variety of systems, making the intranet a single point of entry to everything employees need to do in the course of a day.

Team members shown here (left to right): Jānis Bebrītis, Jurģis Gaigals, Artis Bajārs, Sanita Ločmele, Toms Kalnītis, Līva Otvare, Gatis Rudiņš, Ernests Gabrāns, and Henrijs Šešo.

Santander Group

A company-wide digital transformation process — combined with employee requests for a modern, innovative intranet — gave this intranet team the perfect opportunity to greatly improve on an already helpful site. The team analyzed employees’ habits to further strengthen the previously evolved communication, collaboration, and personalized tools. All of this combined to create an up-to-date, on-brand look that’s engaging, with innovatively designed menus that seem to slide from nowhere and generate additional screen real estate.

Team members shown here (left to right): Alberto Baltanás, Felipe Rivilla, Eduardo Martín, Oscar Sánchez, Jorge Pantoja, Luis Ángel Pérez, David Resco, Eva Pardo, Antonio Martínez, Rubén Laso, Maipi García, Lola Ruiz, Jorge Llano, Miguel Ángel Sanz, Julián Nieto, Santiago Muñoz, David Fariñas, Ana Olabarría, Ernesto Rubio, Virginia García, Jaime Perez, Patricio Barrena, Bosco de Dompablo, Ángel Redondo, Antonio López, Eduardo Calderón, Alejandro Barco, Daniel Ardines, Elena Mercader, José Manuel Organero, David Luis Gil-Esteban, Juan Saiz, and Sergio Cabrera.

Tourism New Zealand

A clean design, rewritten content, and well-integrated social features turned Tourism New Zealand’s new responsive intranet into an essential tool for communication and collaboration, regardless of location or device.

Team members shown here (left to right, top row): Sue Parcell, Deb Gray, Brighid Kelly, and Irina Winsley; (left to right, bottom row): Matt Moore, Dave Brem, Alison Dorrington, and Christine Adair.

Full Report

The Intranet Design Annual with full-color screenshots of the 10 winning intranets for 2017 is available for download.