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Articles that help regulated industries master Microsoft 365, stay up-to-date with the latest compliance trends, and transform the employee experience.
What a 10/10 intranet homepage looks like
A great intranet homepage should feel less like a maze and more like a shortcut. It helps employees understand what matters, find what they need, and get on with their day without digging through endless links, outdated news, or mystery tiles no one remembers adding. But what separates an average ho...
July 23rd, 2026
What Does AI-Readiness Actually Mean? Hint: It’s Not Just Turning AI On
AI-readiness sounds like one of those terms everyone nods along to. It feels important, timely, and just technical enough to avoid too many follow-up questions. But behind the buzzword is a much bigger conversation: what needs to be in place before AI can actually be useful at work? Because switchin...
July 20th, 2026
The 4 things that make or break an intranet homepage.
Your intranet homepage has a few seconds to make itself useful. Not “impressive.” Not “on brand.” Useful. Employees arrive looking for answers, shortcuts, updates, and a reason not to open yet another tab. If the page feels cluttered, generic, confusing, or slightly abandoned, they will ...
July 17th, 2026
First impressions at work: what your intranet homepage says about you
Your intranet homepage is more than a place to publish news. It is the digital front door to your organization, shaping how employees find information, understand priorities, and decide whether your intranet is worth coming back to. So when employees arrive, what are they thinking? Can they immediat...
July 2nd, 2026
What’s new in Powell? A mobile-first experience, smarter AI, and analytics that tell a story
Mobile employees. AI adoption. Analytics overload. The digital workplace is evolving quickly, and expectations are evolving even faster. In this edition of What’s new in Powell?, we explore the latest innovations designed to make workplace experiences more intuitive. From a new mobile-first experien...
July 2nd, 2026
Gartner Digital Workplace Summit 2026 recap
After two packed days at the Gartner Digital Workplace Summit in London, one thing became clear: the future of the digital workplace isn’t just about AI. It’s about whether employees can trust it, use it with confidence, and rely on the content behind it. ...
June 25th, 2026
The best Digital Workplace tools for your company in 2026
Your company probably owns more digital workplace tools than your employees can name. Somewhere between Teams, Slack, three different intranets, a wiki nobody updates, two file-sharing platforms, and the HR system that nobody can find on the first try, studies suggest the average knowledge worker no...
June 25th, 2026
Secure Knowledge Management: How to Protect Your Organization’s Most Valuable Asset
Here is the paradox at the heart of knowledge management security: organizations spend years and serious budgets building their knowledge base, then discover that 31% of employees never use their company SharePoint at all. And when official tools go unused, knowledge does not stay put. It migrates t...
June 23rd, 2026
Intranet for Manufacturing: The Complete Guide to a Connected Factory Floor
Roughly 80% of the global workforce does not sit at a desk, and a large share of those 2.7 billion people work in plants, warehouses and production sites. Yet almost every internal communication tool of the past two decades was designed for someone with a corporate laptop, a personal email address a...
June 19th, 2026
Digital Workplace Security: The Complete Guide to Protecting Your Microsoft 365 Environment
The average cost of a data breach reached $4.88 million in 2024, according to IBM. And in the majority of cases, the root cause wasn’t a sophisticated zero-day exploit or a nation-state actor. It was a misconfigured SharePoint site. An orphaned Teams workspace with external guests still attach...
June 17th, 2026
Employee experience: definition, drivers and how to improve it
Here is a useful thought experiment: imagine your very first week at a new job. The laptop arrived late, the intranet password didn’t work, nobody told you where the coffee was, and your manager introduced you to the team via a reply-all email that misspelled your name. Now imagine the opposit...
June 16th, 2026
New office, bigger momentum: Powell moves to central Paris
Wait we’re moving?! A fresh new office means fresh new ideas. Powell is entering a new chapter with a move to central Paris. More than a new address, this milestone reflects our continued growth, our global ambition, and our commitment to creating better spaces for collaboration, innovation, a...
June 2nd, 2026