Better Intranet Facilitates Integration of New Company
CHALLENGE
Integra LifeSciences completed a $1 billion acquisition of a medical tool manufacturer, doubling the size of its workforce. Integra wanted to:
- integrate operations;
- onboard and retain key employees;
- establish a common culture reflecting the best of each legacy organization;
- upgrade to a new intranet platform.
ACTIONS
Meeting those objectives meant launching a new intranet in three months. Together with our client, SPI Group:
- audited existing content on the intranet;
- identified about 400 pages and files to be revised, migrated or eliminated;
- met with more than 20 stakeholders on an approach to building their site pages;
- updated their intranet to a new SharePoint platform;
- trained contacts on using the new platform.
RESULTS
Many more employees are engaging with the new intranet. After the launch, page views averaged about 94,000 per month, a 16% increase over the old intranet. The HR section, including onboarding resources, netted 24,134 page views—an impressive number given the combined employee population is about 3,700.
