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5 Ways to Optimize Your Intranet for Maximum Performance

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Today enterprises of all sizes leverage the benefits of the intranet as a private sphere where employees can communicate, collaborate, share, and access information and assess their progress in meeting organizational objectives. But with the accelerating shift towards remote work culture and disseminated teams, it is time for the intranet to reconceptualize its stance and optimize to stay relevant and competitive in the industry.  

Below are the five ways you can optimize your intranet for it to continually enhance the employee experience in your organization and render maximum performance.  


1 - Compatible with mobile - The best way you can harness your intranet is by building it user oriented. And with the changing dynamics of workspace around the globe, it is essential more than ever to keep remote employees in the realm of the organization, for which your intranet platform must be compatible with all devices, especially mobile phones, so that they can access information and communicate on the go.  

 

2 - Collaborative and centralized communication - To leverage the advantages of an intranet your intra-organizational communication must be a two-way street, where not just important information and decisions are rallied as per the hierarchy but also feedback and suggestions are communicated and taken into consideration. To boost collaborative communication, you must also centralize all communication channels so that employees do not miss out on important emails, notifications, announcements and also enjoy a healthy social sphere.  

 

3 - Content optimization - Having a strong, updated, and accessible data management system is critically important for your intranet, which includes adding content as per the current developments, filtering out obsolete data, and providing personalized feed to the employees based on their roles and interests. For keeping employees in tandem with the newer skill set and engaged, adept knowledge management and learning management system must also be part of your intranet in the form of FAQs, Know-Hows, gamifying tasks, videos, articles, and other interesting widgets. 

 

4 - Intranet analytics - Using intranet analytics helps you to understand the efficacy of your platform by reflecting upon core areas like employee engagement and their experience with the platform. You can analyze the elements most and least interacted with so that the platform stays uncrowded and relevant for all stakeholders across the organization.  

 

5 - Improve search capabilities - A strong document management system is quite the heart of an intranet and what makes it more efficient is making it the needful documents easily accessible to the concerned people. By adding creative and simple headlines, page names, metadata, and keywords in the content, you can improvise the search capabilities of your intranet. Also, adding authors to the posts, departmental tags, and updating calendars will help employees filter information easily.    

 

Following the aforementioned ways shall help you to optimize your intranet platform and ensure that it renders maximum collaboration, communication, and efficiency in the workflow.

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