Review Winner of the Intra.NET AWARD 2014

NEXANS, Barclays Bank and ‘s Heeren Loo Zorggroep won the we.CONECT – Intra.NET AWARD 2014

Berlin, April 10, 2014.

From April 10 - 11, 2014, more than 240 intranet , communication and IT professionals, from all over globe met at

the we.CONECT – Intra.NET Reloaded 2014 and discussed the most critical challenges and trends of intranet

strategies and visions within their digitally connected enterprises.

Taking place in the exceptional and charming hot-spot of the city - the KOSMOS CINEMA Berlin - attendees

gathered in a festive ceremony to decide in a live poll about the winning projects. Segmented in the categories

“Intranet Integration Strategy & Digital Workplace Management”, “User Experience Design & Content

Management” and “Innovative Technology Integration”, three out of seven nominated projects were up to win the

intra.NET AWARD 2014.

Daniel Wolter - Managing Director

we.CONECT Global Leaders GmbH

Intra.NET AWARD - Audience / KOSMOS Cinema Philipp Rosenthal - Principal Consultant – Infocentric

Host of AWARD Ceremony

Beforehand, an independent jury - composed of Darius Miranda (Vice President, Social Business Strategy, Wells

Fargo Inc.), Kelli Carlson-Jagersma (Vice President, Internal Collaboration, Wells Fargo Inc.), Jonathan

Phillips (Collaboration Expert), Paul-Jervis Heath (Head of Innovation, University of Cambridge), Paul Miller

(CEO, Digital Workplace Group), Bertram Mandel (Director for Sales & Alliances, Liferay Inc.), Philipp

Rosenthal (Principal Consultant, Infocentric) and Jane McConnell (Digital Workplace Strategic Advisor,

NetStrategy / JMC) - , had chosen a number of 7 best projects and did a preselection from all submitted

applications to give nominees the chance to prepare a brief video clip for the live-poll at the event itself.

Award Category: Intranet Integration Strategy & Digital Workplace Management Award

The winner of the Intra.NET Reloaded Award 2014 in the category “Intranet Integration Strategy & Digital

Workplace Management” is NEXANS. NEXANS was awarded for their ‘Intranet version 4 project’ that addresses

strategic values within the group. The team managed to grow their user rate from a previous 70% to 100%. This

finally allowed for an increase of 250% in views of global news.

The second place went to Roland Berger Strategy Consultants for their social intranet project with the main aims

of creating an attractive, state-of-the-art information, communication and collaboration platform for employees

worldwide.

Philipp Rosenthal (Infocentric) and Felix Huck (Roland Berger) Intra.NET AWARD - Audience / KOSMOS Cinema Philipp Rosenthal (Infocentric), Christophe Ralite (Nexans) and

Felix Huck (Roland Berger)

Award Category: User Experience Design & Content Management

The winner of the category “User Experience Design & Content Management” in 2014 is 's Heeren Loo Zorggroep

for their Project: 's Heeren Loo Portals. ‘s Heeren Loo Zorggroep created an employee portal giving users not only

access to news, updates, an event calendar, client data, HRM records, health care protocols and procedures, but

also profile pages of all employees and team sites for collaboration. In addition to this, a portal for mentally

challenged clients had been created to help users overcome difficulties when using the internet.

The second place of the award went to adidas Group for its a-LIVE project, which evolved around connecting the

formerly disjointed and complex worlds of information, collaboration, internal social media and business

applications on a personalized start page in a progressive design that is fun to use - both in the office and on the

go with a dedicated mobile app.

Gjerryt Leuverink - 's Heeren Loo Zorggroep Intra.NET AWARD - Audience / KOSMOS Cinema Philipp Rosenthal (Infocentric), Jenno Nijhoff ('s Heeren Loo

Zorggroep), Gjerryt Leuverink ('s Heeren Loo Zorggroep), Fabio

Delton (UniCredit), Kisten Keck (adidas Group) and Stephanie

Austin (adidas Group)

Award Category: Innovative Technology Integration

Barclays Bank Plc. and their project “Barclays - Creating Compelling Colleague Collaborations” won the first place

in the award category “Innovative Technology Integration”. Barclays Bank Plc. has been using their intranet as a

tool to help the colleague’s service customers through a directory of indexed process and product manuals. Until

today, this has resulted in a 36% reduction in frontline calls to back office operations, an 80% reduction in

knowledge related complaints, a 76% increase in frontline engagement, averaging 3.048 colleague posts per day

and a 25% increase in active users. Overall this has resulted in an aggregate saving of about £3m.

The intranet project of the Saudi Commission for Tourism & Antiquities (SCTA) with their implementation of tools

and services that helps and supports the organization’s business strategic goals, employee’s activities and tasks

was awarded the second place. SCTA achieved a high level of usability and reduced their costs effectively.

Dave Shepherd (Barclays Bank) and Stefanie Nawrocki

(we.CONECT)

Intra.NET AWARD - Audience / KOSMOS Cinema Gjerryt Leuverink ('s Heeren Loo Zorggroep), Jenno Nijhoff ('s

Heeren Loo Zorggroep), Christophe Ralite (Nexans), Dave

Shepherd (Barclays Bank) and Helge Swars (Weltfriedensdienst)

By winning the Intra.NET AWARD 2014 in Berlin, the selected projects not only received a trophy and official

certificate proving their excellence, but the three first places also received a € 2000 cheque from we.CONECT.

In this regard, this year’s prize money of € 2000 was donated to the charity project STEPS For the Future

supported by Weltfriedensdienst e.V. to raise awareness about HIV/AIDS and its effects in Africa. STEPS For the

Future creates positive, provocative and humorous movies revolving around HIV positive men and women in

order to stop the stigmatization of the disease in Southern African countries.

The Intra.NET Reloaded 2014 organized by we.CONECT offered overall more than 40 Case Studies, World

Cafés and interactive sessions that stretched over more than 2 days. Discussions and presentations on topics

related to intranets, employee platforms, internal communications, digital settings and community building, as well

as social collaboration platforms. With this year’s edition, the Intra.NET Reloaded managed to surpass the high

expectations of the more than 240 international attendees.

After the Conference is before the Conference

With more than 40 speakers and moderators, as well as an assorted advisory board and business partners from

all over the world, the Intra.NET Reloaded 2014 presented the biggest networking platform of its format for

communication minds in Europe.

Shortly after the conference, the we.CONECT team is already preparing the 4th Intra.NET Reloaded 2015, which

will return to Berlin from April 27 – 28, 2015. Next year, the Intra.NET Award will once again be bestowed to

outstanding projects that have received not only internal support and appreciation, but deserve an international

recognition within the prominent Intra.NET Reloaded community. For further information about the Intra.NET

Reloaded, delegate or speakers registration, as well as the application procedure for the next year´s award,

please contact contact Peter Haack, Head of Marketing at we.CONECT.

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Peter Haack Head of Marketing Tel.: +49 (0)30 52 10 70 3 - 42 Email: peter.haack@we-conect.com