Our NNG Story: How to build an award-winning digital workspace
User-experience research firm Nielsen Norman Group (NNG) has been analysing intranets from all over the world for 20 years, including trends and developments in the industry and best practices for intranet design. Across two decades, they have singled out the 10 best intranets of each year around the globe, recognising a total of 200 inspiring intranets and their creators who were pioneers in their winning year.
This year, Korn Ferry has won the prominent NNG Award for Best Intranet alongside ClearPeople. Co-winners also included the United Nations, Loblaw and other well-known brands, and we thought now might be a great time to share some of our learnings from deploying ever more capable digital workspace solutions on the Microsoft 365 platform as businesses all over the globe turn to remote working.
Erin Evans, Senior Director, Strategy and Head of the Collective Intelligence Task Force at Korn Ferry
Erin is the Senior Director of Strategy at Korn Ferry, and leads the company’s Collective Intelligence organization – a global, 40-person cross functional team charged with digitally transforming the firm’s operational framework and using technology and data to enable commercial activities that accelerate the business’ strategy. She led the development and implementation of Korn Ferry’s digital workplace, Fuse, which has received two top industry awards from Nielsen Norman Group and Digital Workplace Group. Erin has been a keynote speaker and contributor to DWG, Intra.NET Reloaded, and other industry publications as an expert in workplace transformation, strategic operations, and digital workplaces. She earned her Bachelor of Science in Accounting and Economics from the University of San Diego, and currently resides in Massachusetts with her husband and two children.
Gabriel Karawani, Co-Founder at ClearPeople
Gabriel is Co-Founder of ClearPeople and responsible for the overall technical vision as well as the Atlas product vision. He is the primary driver behind ClearPeople's partnership with Microsoft, having led the company's direction and drive to becoming a top-tier managed partner. Gabriel has been the executive lead on a number of large-scale client engagements that have led to prominent UK and global awards, including Most Innovative Cloud Solution award for The Crown Estate and the Nielsen Norman Group Best Intranet award for Korn Ferry. Gabriel has a MSc degree in Engineering and has worked in the field of IT and software development since 1993.
