Lorna Jane Intranet
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Lorna Jane is now multi-million dollar fitness inspired clothing brand that includes active wear, yoga, lifestyle, swimwear, intimates and accessories. Lorna Jane has signature stores in Australia, New Zealand and Singapore with new stores opening every month. Lorna Jane are passionate about inspiring and promoting an active lifestyle and are committed to excellence in their brand, their product quality, their customer service and influencing their customer's life in a healthy and positive way.
Lorna Jane is also a local Fortitude Valley resident and approached SM2 to develop a custom built Intranet solution. SM2 then designed, built and released to the Intranet environment the Lorna Jane intranet that is to be used as an information portal for all internal Lorna Jane retail stores. Some of the information the staff will find on the Intranet include sales reports, positions vacant, visual merchandising concepts, Policies & Procedures, contacts details and much more.
Increasingly, intranets are being used to deliver tools and applications, such as collaboration (to facilitate working in groups and teleconferencing), corporate directories, sales tools, project management etc., to advance productivity. Lorna Jane also will utilise the Intranet to enhance Workforce productivity. As the Intranet will help Lorna Jane staff to locate and view information faster and use applications relevant to their roles and responsibilities. With the help of a web browser interface, the staff can access the data anytime and from anywhere within the company workstations, increasing their employees' ability to perform their jobs faster, more accurately and with confidence that they have the right time sensitive information. Time: With intranets, organizations can make more information available to employees on a "pull" basis (i.e.: employees can link to relevant information at a time which suits them) rather than being deluged indiscriminately by emails.
The Intranet will also be a more cost-effective way to maintain and distribute information and data. As the staff can access this via a web-browser rather than maintaining physical documents such as procedure manuals, internal phone list and requisition forms.
SolutionThe core of the Intranet solution was the activation of the website content management system (built upon the award winning Joomla! open source framework) to power the Lorna Jane intranet solution.
To get the intranet off and running, SM2 provided:
Consultancy services to finalise functional and creative design requirements
Creative Design services to produce intranet layout based on existing branding
Web Development services to build and release a regenerated Lorna Jane intranet using
Technical integration into the existing hosting environment and for deployment across all retail stores
Training and Support services to up-skill and support web editing staff in operational use of the intranet
Date launched: 10 July 2008
