Overview

The IT recruitment company Spring wanted to migrate all of their Lotus Notes databases and merge their numerous departmental intranets into one singular extranet. The launch of this extranet was to be in conjunction with the move to their new offices in London’s Oxford Street. We proposed a concept of ‘Cafe Spring’. This was the idea that different people have different needs, much the same as people having different coffee tastes. Thus the different areas of the extranet reflected a specific style of coffee:

Espresso - up to date hard hitting facts only i.e. headline industry news stories
Cappucino - more engaging information that you would mull over i.e. company information
Latte - milky information i.e. company policies and proceedures, HR information
Percolator - training zone i.e. online learning centre

Introducing this coffee culture was a long process. Initially we had to educate and then build anticipation from the Spring staff about the new extranet and the coffee concept. This was done by sending each employee an email from the CEO outlining the new iniative and providing a link through to a holding microsite with a countdown clock of days to go till full launch on it. On the day of moving into the new offices the extranet was launched with all of the information contained. This extranet was designed to be an evolutionary site which could expand depending on the needs of Spring.

My Involvement

I was involved in this project from the initial pitch proccess, through the initial design and technical layout of the extranet, project mangaging the design interface & flash mail pieces, co-ordinating the CEO email to staff and monitoring the costs and budgets with the client.