About AEP Now
AEP Now is the official corporate intranet (internal Web site)
at AEP. It actually consists of a family of internal Web sites:
- this site, which provides corporate information and applications; and
- other Web sites developed, in whole or part, by business units and work teams
across AEP, available as links from AEP Now.
Note: AEP Now has been named one of the world's ten best intranets by the Nielsen Norman Group and Dr. Jakob Nielsen, who is widely considered the preeminent authority on Web site usability. See the full report (PDF, 377 pages, 19MB) describing AEP Now's award.
AEP Now has also been featured in the Wall Street Journal (May 14, 2007) as a winning intranet.
The primary purpose of AEP Now is to enhance employee productivity,
thereby enabling employees -- and the company -- to be more successful.
AEP Now enhances employee productivity by:
- providing quick access to AEP news, information, and people (a comprehensive online
encyclopedia);
- integrating self-service forms and interactive applications to efficiently conduct
business and transfer information online;
- displaying real-time performance measures and scorecards to manage operations and
quickly adapt to changing conditions;
- reinforcing corporate messages to ensure that efforts are properly aligned with
strategy, and promoting urgency around key initiatives;
- establishing collaborative environments and opportunities for dialog, enabling the
organization's knowledge and ideas to flow top-down, bottom-up, and side-to-side;
and
- instilling pride in working for AEP.
AEP Now is further characterized by its dedication to timeliness, speed, accuracy,
relevance, candor, context, inclusiveness, design consistency, and ease of use.
AEP Now's tone is professional, yet fun. It seeks to support, enlighten, inspire,
entertain, and establish a sense of unity -- but always with a business context
and an emphasis on productivity.
Who runs AEP Now?
AEP Now is primarily maintained by AEP Corporate Communications. See the
contact list for the names and numbers of those responsible.
AEP Now was also founded by Corporate Communications, in 1996, and is updated each
work day. We enhance it, maintain it, make sure it's intuitive, professionally-designed,
accurate, comprehensive, reliable, and state-of-the-art. We benchmark against other
companies, monitor traffic, and respond to questions and comments from employees.
How sites are added to AEP Now
If your business unit or work team wishes to add a site to AEP Now, please
contact us.
We will evaluate the site, making sure that it works properly and that it conforms
to AEP's
corporate identity standards, before adding
it to the
AEP Now Index and linking to it from other
parts of AEP Now as necessary.