I’ve been thinking about intranets and user adoption. And not for the first time. We absolutely love Cloudbase, our intranet even though it is one to two generations behind Hadron 8020, the Enterprise Intranet we sell. We know that our clients love their Hadrons, but still we see poor end user survey results sometimes. I […]
Author: Simon Hudson
Simon Hudson is an entrepreneur, health sector specialist and founder of Cloud2 Ltd. and Kinata Ltd. and, most recently, Novia Works Ltd. He has an abiding, evangelical interest in information, knowledge management and has a lot to say on best practice use of Microsoft Teams, SharePoint and cloud technologies, the health sector, sustainability and more. He has had articles and editorials published in a variety of knowledge management, clinical benchmarking and health journals. He is a co-facilitator of the M365 North User Group Leeds and is Entrepreneur in Residence at the University of Hull.
Simon is passionate about rather too many things, including science, music (he writes and plays guitar & mandola), skiing, classic cars, technology and, by no means least, his family.
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Zero Tolerance and the 1%
Reading the Friday morning blog of the rather excellent Ed Reid this morning on how many small improvements can make a big difference I was struck that it resonated with part of my talk at the NHS event Cloud2 hosted in Manchester the day before. As with Ed’s comments, I referenced the Olympic 1% improvements […]
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Dilbert on Intranet
Dilbert never fails to illuminate a few areas of business wisdom, by contrasting it with arrant business stupidity. So, Dilbert on Intranets: Some interesting behaviours and themes to ponder: If your intranet doesn’t work it must be the fault of either the technology or your users… Maybe what was implemented, for what purpose, with what […]
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What users really want
In Cloud2 we spend a lot of time thinking about SharePoint use, intranets, user adoption and the challenges of matching what people want, with what they think they want and what other people (usually managers, communications and IT folk) say they should want. We also try to match this to what we see being successful. […]
As a company, we have just moved completely to the Office365 suite, mostly driven by a desire to improve our email (though it was pretty good before) and also from a desire to start using Lync (even though we are big users of Skype already) for our internal communications because of the way it looks […]
These prophetic words come from Blondie’s 1978 Parallel Lines album (one of the all-time great albums by the way – if you haven’t got it then shame on you). In fact the preceding lines are just as prescient: “Picture this, my telephone number One and one is what I’m telling you Get a pocket computer […]
It has been our observation that many, and perhaps most, SharePoint projects in the English (as distinct from Scottish, Welsh etc) National Health Service fail to a greater extent than they succeed. Yet the NHS has very strong needs for the types of solution that SharePoint provides, it has increasingly mature infrastructure and project skills […]
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e-mail – illness or cure
The following are some thoughts drawn from a discussion during the Information managers breakfast meeting in mid June There has been a transformation in e-mail use since the early days. Some of this is due to the fact that originally tools were just text (e.g. MS Mail). Now tools like MS Outlook with MS exchange […]
In our development of the NHS SharePoint Solution Accelerator we hit the common problem of how to design a document library scheme that met the core needs for our clients. At the heart of this is a set of design goals, which can be simplified as: – A single place to access information – A […]
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