Hack:
Flatten Your Organization with an Online Platform, Enabling "Organization 2.0"

Imagine a Software as a Service (SaaS) platform that you provide to your entire organization. They access it from anywhere: desktop, laptop, tablet or smartphone. Consider it your "Intranet 2.0" - it has video at its core and is highly interactive. This online platform can transform your internal communications from "silo-based, occasional sharing" to "highly matrixed inter-communications", flattening your organization and allowing knowledge to spread like kudzu.

Online Platform as Flattening Agent

An online platform elevates the "time inventory" of your schedule-challenged executive team. The "one a year" town hall meeting can now occur multiple times per day, from the confines of the web. A laptop (or tablet) with a webcam provides a highly affordable "studio set" for your CEO, who can now speak directly to 5 individuals - or, 5,000. In addition, with tools such as text-based chat, your CEO or COO can communicate with many employees at once, in a more efficient manner than an on-site town hall meeting.

Online Platform for Executive Briefings

In addition to town hall type gatherings, the online platform can serve as an organization's "internal television channel," delivering important news and information (instantly) to the entire company. The online platform can host executive briefing sessions, allowing your executive team to speak directly (and at times, personally) to your global workforce.

Online Platform for Discovery

In any large organization, there is far more knowledge and expertise than even your top executives realize. An online platform can expose and surface the pockets of expertise that your organization may not know exists. The online platform can empower your workers to share their knowledge, via message boards, blogs and user-generated video. You'll discover hidden knowledge, while increasing employee satisfaction.

Conclusion

Today's "static content" intranets are fast becoming dinosaurs. With a video-based, interactive SaaS platform, we can create Intranet 2.0, which allows you to transform your company into Organization 2.0.