Motability Operations has rolled-out a Microsoft SharePoint intranet in partnership with Sorce to reinforce worker communications.

The corporate behind the Motability automotive, powered wheelchair and scooter scheme – that helps over 700,000 individuals with disabilities and their households get on the street – mentioned it was eager to maneuver away from an email-heavy tradition and supply a central user-friendly platform for storing paperwork; sharing information and enterprise updates; collaboration and worker assist.

All Motability Operations workers can now use the ‘MOConnect’ intranet – which went reside in April 2023 – for accessing company-wide information and knowledge, studying about occasions and programs, and searching for assist and assist. Since going reside with its SharePoint intranet, Motability Operations has considerably diminished its e mail site visitors.

“We would have liked a brand new fashionable platform to exchange our previous intranet that was now not match for objective,” mentioned Julia Dixon, at Motability Operations. “As our previous intranet was barely used, worker communications relied closely on e mail and Microsoft Groups and this wanted to vary.”

To streamline communications and supply a central repository for all paperwork and knowledge, the corporate determined to maneuver to a SharePoint intranet and approached quite a few SharePoint specialists. Sorce was chosen as Motability Operations’ accomplice of selection after the corporate impressed with its simple and personable strategy.

 MOConnect went reside to all workers following an implementation course of lasting simply six months. Dixon mentioned: “We needed to roll-out the brand new intranet rapidly and our 15-person challenge administration workforce, along with the experience of Sorce, managed to show issues round and ship the challenge on time.” 

The intranet is already enhancing communications throughout the corporate, whereas serving to to streamline the worker expertise as Dixon defined, “We now have a ‘one cease store’ for all colleagues – a platform that brings everybody and every thing collectively no matter whether or not they’re working from one in all our 4 areas or at residence. We are able to now retailer recordsdata simply, entry firm apps and share excellent news tales – all from MOConnect. It’s decreasing our reliance on e mail and additional strengthening our office neighborhood.”

Motability Operations will even be encouraging using MOConnect on cell units, permitting workers to entry what they want, be taught information and provides suggestions whereas on the transfer. That is a part of the corporate’s transfer in direction of a extra ‘digital first’ strategy that helps create first-rate experiences for each prospects and workers.