Managing your most valuable asset (people) needs more than just the intention

Research shows that most employees using traditional, top-down, centralized Intranets feel isolated from “the action” and find the content too static, often stale and mostly one-way. Emails tend to be too specific, direct, and create silos.

It is estimated that 76 per cent of the global working population is already using social networks. Social tools are second nature to today’s young workforce (Digital Natives). Consequently, there is an expectation to adopt similar tools within the enterprise to generate content and foster open communication and collaboration. Existing media trends indicate that organizations are slowly but surely adopting social intranet tools and software to communicate and engage with their employees.

Qontext Social Intranet is designed to heighten employee engagement and achieve results through enhanced participation, self-expression, collective intelligence, and conversations. It:

• Structures information according to how people use it (and not according to the organization chart)
• Follows a role-based personalization approach that brings the information in the portal to users (than force users to navigate maze-like spaces to locate information)

All key stakeholders in an organization can use Qontext Social Intranet to deeply engage with one another.

• Executive management can use Qontext Social Intranet to integrate globally and cascade the vision, mission, and business objectives to the middle management and the employees, empower bottom-up communication and sharing, and drive innovation.
• Human Resources can use Qontext Social Intranet to engage with employees individually and in groups, manage change, facilitate faster integration (new hire onboarding, training etc.), reduce attrition, and thus remain the employer of choice.
• Managers can use Qontext Social Intranet to build communities of practice that share content, expertise, and learning on specific areas of interest to build skills and competencies. They can also use the social intranet to guide and support peers, replace micro-managing with micro-messaging, and upgrade to a workplace collaboration platform upon sufficient adoption.
• Employees can use Qontext Social Intranet to share and converse with their managers and peers, learn beyond the classroom, build their individual brands by showcasing their skills, competencies, project experience and successes, and achieve better work-life-integration.

How it works

Qontext Social Intranet allows you to:

• Make company-wide announcements through short broadcast messages
• Publish company news including editorial content, pictures, videos, media clips, and press releases
• Bring together people with similar interests by creating communities of practice, project groups, and special interest groups
• Process large volume of messages using activity feeds and enable employee participation through commenting and rating
• Create a network of people that you would like to “watch” and receive updates from
• Look up and connect with people you know on the activity feed
• Push content suggested by the recommendation engine based on interests and activity
• Quickly post short messages, create discussions, or share content
• Recognize employees or groups by featuring their ideas, opinions and experiences
• Collect feedback and opinions on issues related to work, employee benefits, customer service etc. using polls and surveys