In a busy working environment, how do you get employees to fill out personal details and enhance their intranet profiles? Apart from having hectic working lifes, cultural issues may also hold employees back. However, without additional details on skills, competences and experience, you have little more than an oldfashioned intranet phone book containing simply e-mail addresses and phone numbers.
At Danish international pharmaceutical company Lundbeck they've managed to integrate their intranet with LinkedIn, so that employee profiles and search results are enriched by LinkedIn data. This means that a search for a specific skill, eg. deep technical knowledge of a particular protein, will also find both new and long-time employees that have the skill posted on their LinkedIn profile.
I spoke to Lundbeck's Web Application Specialist Maria Schmidt Sander to hear more about this innovative project.


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