Finance | SharePoint and Digital Workplace Upgrade
The specialist UK financial services group, Just, provides companies and individuals with retirement products and services. The group was born in 2016 following the merger between Just Retirement and Partnership. The modern corporate intranet, HQ, is their primary enable of cultural engagement across 1,000 employees. ClerksWell provided a new intranet using SharePoint, as well as branding, strategy, IA and UX services.
Following the merger between two businesses, the UK financial services group, Just, needed to unify its internal culture and identity in line with their new way forward. Each legacy company had its own intranet which were used to provide the same messages across the business.
Just required a speedy operation to unite their digital workplace and bring all their employees together under the same communication system.
An agile project management methodology meant that the IT and Internal Comms team worked closely together with shared goals, helping to move the intranet project forward quickly. Formal meetings set key priorities, while fortnightly sprint reviews tracked progress and results. Solid project management helped to develop a very clear dialogue between the teams around what needed to be delivered and when.
Based upon SharePoint using EasyShare, the new platform, HQ, is not just a digital workplace tool but an enabler of cultural engagement among 1,000 employees across Surrey, London and Belfast.
Built in six months, HQ is the new intranet of the unified business.
The launch of HQ marked a big milestone for Just. Showing the new name and the new company identity, HQ was a significant step towards bringing the new brand to life and helping to instil the sense of moving forward as one business. The intranets also played a crucial part in supporting the merger in terms of keeping staff informed about progress to completion. Without the communication overload and clunky arrangements of the previous system, HQ simplifies information distribution and ensures that it is useful to everybody.
Industry Perspective
“We'd been talking about becoming Just, becoming one single business, for months. But before we had HQ as our single intranet, our messaging was diluted by all the separate systems. HQ helped cement us. We now log on and see the same brand colours, the same design and the same content, and we are confident that everything on there is updated and accurate for everyone. We feel just one whole company.”
