Intranet & Extranet

Placecube's digital platforms serve as a centralised digital workplace, solving operational, communicative, and cultural challenges by helping employees, partners, and stakeholders overcome the difficulties traditionally associated with intranets.

The challenge

The office intranet can often end up as an unloved dumping ground for a range of organisational documentation that is rarely used. Employees feel overwhelmed by information overload when faced with what seems like a document black hole of outdated, irrelevant and duplicated files.

The intranet is regularly cited as the least liked software in the workplace. Intranet projects often stall or fail due to poor process governance, unclear ownership, and a lack of alignment on the platform's specific goals.

Many of our clients tell us that they have struggled making their intranets a success.

Common problems

Annoyance at time-wasting due to outdated/duplicated content.
Silos created by struggling to share knowledge across teams.
Confusion due to no single source of the truth and over-reliance on gossip.
Anxiety about new staff missing key induction information.
Fear of experienced staff leaving without sharing expertise.
Disengagement from a lack of visible leadership, governance, trust, and investment.
Frustration with legacy technology hindering self-service and external connections.

Technical capability supporting organisational success

Placecube’s modern intranet and extranet solution provides organisations with the technology to enable and empower employees. Great technical capability alone cannot eradicate all an organisation’s cultural struggles, but it can create a feature-rich tool to drive engagement and cut through workplace noise.

Improve efficiency

Improve efficiency through smart, enterprise search to help employees find what they are looking for quickly and easily.

Break down silos

Break down organisational silos through collaborative working, easily searchable shared libraries, online discussions and visibility of key content.

Intuitive design

Prioritise user experience through simple intuitive design and personalised experiences that provide people with the information they need about the organisation and for their work.

Retain and share knowledge

Improve knowledge retention and rapidly induct new employees through shared knowledge assets, workspaces for lessons learned, online discussions and connections.

Engage employees

Increase employee engagement through better two-way communication and more visible, accessible content from senior leaders.

External collaboration

Unlock access to external knowledge by securely connecting with partners and other stakeholders using role-based permissions without extra effort.

Case studies

North Northamptonshire Council (NNC), a Digital Place subscriber, undertook a strategic project with Placecube to develop an end-to-end Blue Badge Application Management system. The council commissioned the solution to replace its aging Blue Badge system, which was scheduled for deprecation.

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The Police Digital Service (PDS), in partnership with Placecube, created a knowledge sharing platform designed to facilitate collaboration within the policing sector. Police forces and their partners are enabled to share research, best practice and work together on projects.

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Babergh and Mid Suffolk District Councils (B&MS) collaborated on a significant digital transformation initiative to rebuild and elevate the user experience of their critical housing services website.

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Knowledge Hub (khub.net) is an open digital platform for public service collaboration and knowledge exchange. It provides free or low-cost spaces and tools to over 5,000 UK and international organisations across central and local government, health, education, housing, police, fire services, charities and many more.

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