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 highway – stated 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 help.

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

“We wanted a brand new fashionable platform to exchange our outdated intranet that was now not match for function,” stated Julia Dixon, at Motability Operations. “As our outdated intranet was barely used, worker communications relied closely on e mail and Microsoft Groups and this wanted to alter.”

To streamline communications and supply a central repository for all paperwork and data, the corporate determined to maneuver to a SharePoint intranet and approached various SharePoint specialists. Sorce was chosen as Motability Operations’ associate of alternative after the corporate impressed with its simple and personable method.

 MOConnect went reside to all staff following an implementation course of lasting simply six months. Dixon stated: “We needed to roll-out the brand new intranet shortly and our 15-person mission administration group, along with the experience of Sorce, managed to show issues round and ship the mission 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 the whole lot collectively no matter whether or not they’re working from one in all our 4 areas or at dwelling. 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 group.”

Motability Operations can even be encouraging the usage of MOConnect on cell units, permitting staff 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’ method that helps create first-rate experiences for each clients and staff.