The Internal Comms Podcast

Episode 110 – Navigating the shifting digital landscape

The Internal Comms Podcast

Show Notes

This week on The Internal Comms Podcast, host Katie Macaulay is joined by co-founder of Local Wisdom, tech expert and comms leader Pinaki Kathiari. With his rare passion for both the sciences and the arts, Pinaki has built a company that advises organisations large and small on how to launch and scale their comms platforms.

Internal comms technology has often been late to the party. But as Pinaki shares with Katie, we’re in a very exciting, pivotal time for comms tech. In this episode, they discuss the questions we should be asking of IT leaders, how technology has evolved in the IC space and what makes an effective channel suite. Also, listen out for Pinaki’s IC team maturity model and an insightful exchange about why it feels wrong to be human at work.

As always, share your thoughts on this or any other episode of The Internal Comms Podcast using the hashtag #TheICPodcast. And thanks for listening.

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