Jive Blog

What Is A Social Intranet?

Remember the promise of the intranet? Back in the mid-1990s when intranets were born, they were touted as an antidote to many of the ills that plagued corporate knowledge sharing. They were going to liberate content and spread the wealth locked inside information repositories, closed networks, siloed file systems and even physical file cabinets...

• Industry Insights
• January 22, 2019

A Next-Gen Healthcare Communication Platform And More

The challenges facing the healthcare industry are evolving rapidly. Healthcare organizations are coping with changes in care delivery, patient expectations, clinical technology and regulations. With increased specialization and distribution of functions, care is spread across many practitioners...

• Industry Insights
• January 14, 2019

How To Achieve Better Collaboration With Office 365

It’s no secret. Office 365 is the industry standard for productivity software, handling everything from email and calendaring to content creation, storage and document management. The challenge, of course, is organizing and tracking all of these documents and conversations as they swirl around various Office 365 tools, such as SharePoint, Outlook Teams, Yammer and more...

• Industry Insights
• January 9, 2019

Vodafone Ukraine Dials Up an Award-Winning Digital Workplace

As you may have heard, our long-time customer, Vodafone Ukraine, was recently honored with a Gold Step Two 2018 Intranet and Digital Workplace Award. The leading Ukrainian mobile operator has been using Jive for four years to successfully fuel employee collaboration and strategic alignment. As a result, the organization doubled its employee net promoter scores, achieved […]

• Customer Spotlight
• November 7, 2018

How the Oldest Existing Humanitarian Organization Is Accelerating Digital Transformation with Jive

This year, we were excited to welcome the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) – an impartial, independent and neutral organization ensuring humanitarian protection and assistance for victims of armed conflict and violence – to the Jive and Aurea family. The organization brought in Jive to empower colleagues to work across regions on important thematic areas such as urban violence and creating better conditions for people living in detention centers...

• Customer Spotlight
• November 1, 2018

Fostering Social Work Habits In A Traditional Company

A few years years ago, I had the privilege of working with Katrin Fischer, the social intranet project manager at Schaeffler Group, on the early stages of their Jive launch. The other day, I had a chance to catch up with Katrin about how things have been going since then, and get a sneak peak of her upcoming presentation at Aurea Experience, where she’ll be discussing Schaeffler’s evolving digital transformation, and how her team is getting and keeping employees engaged and working in new ways...

• Customer Spotlight
• October 17, 2018

Preserving Centuries of Corporate Memory at Lloyds Banking Group

It’s awesome to see a long-established company embrace the changing world and thrive in today’s digital landscape – especially when that organization can trace its history back to the early days of the Enlightenment. Few companies in the world are more established or esteemed than Lloyds Banking Group, which today encompasses multiple brands, including Lloyds Bank and the Bank of Scotland, which was founded in 1695...

• Customer Spotlight
• October 9, 2018

Thought Leadership: Tips to Improve Engagement Across the Entire Employee Lifecycle

Continuing our recent thought leadership momentum, today we’re excited to share another great CMSwire article by our own Kosheno Moore! This piece delves into ways companies can bring more rigor to their employee engagement strategies at each stage of the employee lifecycle. Kosheno recommends organizations define their touchpoints using a combination of people, process and technology (such […]

• Uncategorized
• October 5, 2018

Congratulations to Royal Bank of Canada’s Award-Winning Digital Leader, Aaron Kim

If your business is looking to truly improve the employee experience and increase engagement, it’s not enough to just roll out an intranet and hope that does the trick. While putting the right platform in place is important, it is essential to also have digital leaders who advocate for your community’s transformative power across the […]

• Customer Spotlight
• October 3, 2018

Thought Leadership: Transform Your Corporate Culture With These 5 Proven Steps

We are happy to share Aurea’s first CMSwire thought leadership article by our very own Kosheno Moore! Her byline article covers why a company’s culture has to be part of the fabric of everyday interactions among employees, and between employees and management. The article offers the following actionable tips, each of which can be supported with the […]

• Industry Insights
• September 11, 2018

Top 8 Ways Companies Use Jive to Achieve Breakthrough Results

Jive is a complete collaboration hub and interactive intranet, powering a wide range of essential functions and processes in leading companies worldwide. We’ve compiled and templated numerous use cases  and process flows to help customers build successful strategies. Customers report that Jive has helped them align their organizations from the front lines to the CEO, unleash high-performance […]

• Industry Insights
• August 15, 2018

5 Steps to a Successful Digital Workplace Strategy

Today’s digital workplace is a beautiful and terrible thing. Technology helps us get more done, more quickly, than ever before, but it comes with its own challenges, from security to sprawl. In fact, the average business today uses over 300 applications, and employees shift between those applications every two to three minutes. This scenario impacts […]

• Industry Insights
• August 8, 2018

What Is Social Collaboration and Why Should I Care?

What Is Social Collaboration? (and Why You Should Care) Enterprise social collaboration, as defined by the Aberdeen Group, is “an organizational initiative where employees or partner organizations work together to accomplish business-related tasks, via user-generated (social) content creation and sharing.” The analyst firm also notes that social collaboration “connects internal stakeholders… for timely and effective […]

• Industry Insights
• August 6, 2018

How Pearson Connects 30,000 Employees Across 70 Countries

Pearson is the world’s learning company, with expertise in educational courseware and assessment, and a range of teaching and learning services powered by technology. Pearson’s mission is to help people make progress through access to better learning. With more than 30,000 people across 70 countries, Pearson needed a way to provide employees with tools that would foster collaboration, […]

• Customer Spotlight
• July 31, 2018

5 Strategies for Benchmarking Enterprise Collaboration with Forrester

The value of enterprise collaboration (EC) seems intuitive: of course it’s better to have customers, employees, and partners working together in a holistic way. Measuring collaboration, however, isn’t nearly as straightforward. Even when you can see the results of engagement in action, it can be challenging to benchmark and prove the impact of your enterprise […]

• Industry Insights
• July 24, 2018

How Jive’s Collaboration Solutions Are Empowering Businesses

Recently, Aurea’s own Katherine Evans chatted with an editor over at HostingAdvice.com, who wrote an in-depth feature article about trends in enterprise collaboration and the benefits of Jive’s solution in particular. He explained today’s increasingly siloed and dispersed work environments, and how Jive’s interactive intranet can cure the resulting challenge of corporate amnesia for better employee engagement and productivity. […]

• Industry Insights
• July 13, 2018

3 Must-Haves for a Successful Digital Workplace

From HR to the C-suite, people at every level of today’s organizations are discussing the digital workplace: what it is, how it impacts the employee experience, and perhaps more importantly, how to create a successful one. But defining “digital workplace” isn’t as easy as it sounds. What is a digital workplace? Deloitte calls it “the natural […]

• Industry Insights

Great Customer Experience Begins with an Empowered Workforce

Today, customer expectations are continuously growing, demanding exceptional quality and service. The key to delivering such an experience starts with having an engaged and connected workforce. In fact, a recent survey from Gallup found that companies with high employee engagement had 10 percent higher customer ratings than those with low engagement. In an effort to improve engagement […]

• Industry Insights
• June 27, 2018

How We Will Work in 2028: Highlights from a Fascinating Gartner Report

Bill Gates famously said, “We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next 10. Don’t let yourself be lulled into inaction.” Wise words, but how can you take action without understanding exactly what change will occur? Gartner attempts to answer that […]

• Industry Insights
• May 17, 2018

Chat Apps Are Only One Part of the Bigger Collaboration Picture

Chat apps are everywhere in the enterprise, and rightfully so. Email is inefficient, nobody (unfortunately) answers the phone anymore, and teams are looking for ways to get work done faster. Real-time messaging apps provide exactly that: a place for employees to gather quickly, seek expertise and stay connected across dozens of departments, offices and countries. […]

• Industry Insights
• April 11, 2018

The Missing Link for Digital Transformation Success Is?

For fun, I typed “digital transformation” into Google and scoured a few of the 58 million results. It didn’t take long before I noticed a pattern: most of the discussion is centered on technology. Countless articles cover the social, mobile, analytics and cloud technologies you need to pull off a successful transformation initiative. But digital […]

• Industry Insights
• February 5, 2018

Declutter Your Digital Workplace

Over the past five years, we’ve seen a definite shift in how organizations implement workplace tools. In the past, when a department or team wanted new software, the CIO and IT department would recommended solutions and finalize all purchasing decisions. With the introduction of the cloud, procuring and acquiring new workplace tools has become easier […]

• Tips & Tricks
• January 24, 2018

Digital Transformation at Allianz

I’m excited to share an excellent article written by one of our very own community members, Michael Wegscheider from the Allianz Group. This piece in ITProPortal showcases his digital transformation expertise and highlights several of the key learnings and results his organization realized with its Jive-powered interactive intranet, Allianz Connect. In the article, Michael talks about the insurance giant’s […]

• Customer Spotlight
• January 17, 2018

Collaborate and Communicate Better With an Interactive Intranet

I worked at an amusement park in high school, and was told to “be patient and understanding when you get asked the same questions over and over. While you may have answered that question dozens of times already, it’s probably the first time that guest has asked that question.” That doesn’t seem like a very […]

• Industry Insights
• January 8, 2018