2023 has been a year of tremendous change and accomplishment for the One-Key team.
Before we head into holidays and wrap on 2023, it’s our ritual to look back on some of the team’s accomplishments this year—our greatest hits and favorite replays, not unlike Spotify’s personalized “Wrapped” playlists (keep reading to the end for our collective team’s playlist)!
Back in May, you may have noticed a change to the Transfers experience.
This change represents a huge team effort. The transfers feature within the One-Key app interacts with much of functionality available to users–e.g., inventory, places, people—so making one small change can create a cascading domino effect. Liz Haagensen, a One-Key digital product manager, discussed in a recent employee story, the challenges as well as great outcomes that came from her leadership, working to deliver this new, enhanced experience.
With these changes, we updated the transfer feature, adding a more robust experience including:
Milwaukee Tool leads the industry with the widest range of connected smart power tools with now 100+ solutions.
In addition to machine learning we’ve added in antikickback solutions, this year, the release of our mid- and compact controlled torque impact wrenches represent the most advanced power tool solutions we’ve delivered to date. Designed with proprietary sensors and machine learning developed algorithms to overcome common jobsite variability, our controlled torque impact wrenches help deliver torque repeatability for utility-scale solar projects.
As our most advanced solution to date, the One-Key team in collaboration with the controlled torque impact wrench product management team built a Guide to help end users set up and train their controlled torque impact wrenches.
Every year, we aim to deliver the most helpful content to readers like you that is designed to help inspire you, help you become more productive in your role, and spark conversations to help drive the industry forward.
The stats are in on the past year, and here are the titles you couldn’t get enough of!
The following articles are the most read articles we wrote this year:
The following articles were created within the last year and popular in the last quarter:
Just like last year, when we highlighted popular and heavily read articles we wrote this year, we also highlighted the most read articles of all time (relative to that time).
The following articles are the most-read articles to date:
Last year, the team published around six articles in third-party publications to help expand our reach as thought leaders in the construction technology space.
This year, we prioritized this initiative in a major way, and (at the time of this publication), the team has published 22 articles in leading publications including:
Some of those titles can be seen below:
We’d like to thank these publications and we look forward to continuing building these relationships and creating valuable content for the industry while expanding our audience.
This year, we introduced several new types of content:
Early this year, we introduced a new series of content, the Expert Roundup, where we look to gather a roundtable of industry experts, ask them to provide their insight on a single topic or trend, and curate their responses while offering a final reading and consensus between these experts.
The Expert Roundup represents our commitment to connecting our readers with the very best insights across the industry.
This year, we released two Expert Roundups:
We encourage you to read these roundups to see how our panel of experts did! We look forward to continuing this tradition in future years to come.
Also, relatively new for this year is the Interview.
There are two styles of interviews we’ve employed:
Topic-Style Interview:
Similar but distinct from the Expert Roundup, for the topic-style interview format, we partner with a single expert related to a specific topic we aim to unpack on a deeper level. In these articles, we’ll provide a deep dive on a topic, underpinning these deep dives with rich subject matter expertise courtesy of our experts’ responses to our guided questions on the discussed topic.
Examples include:
Transcript-Style Interview:
In addition to the topic-style interview, we also have employed the transcript-style interview, wherein we interview a subject matter expert at the top of their field and ask them a series of questions specific to them as subject matter experts and people.
The format typically includes a brief introduction of the person and their background followed by a slightly edited version of the interview transcript.
Examples include:
Outside of transcript-style interviews featuring SMEs, we’ve also employed the concept with our Employee Stories series, a series we first began last year.
Employee Stories from 2023 included:
Building and construction segments represent a complex, often multidisciplinary process that is quickly adapting. We rolled out the Glossary to help curate in a central location the vast terminology related to a single segment of the construction process.
These Glossary of Terms also represent living, breathing lists we recommend bookmarking as we add to them as newer terms and practices relative to each list become available.
Current glossaries include:
We recommend bookmarking these glossaries as well as to keep a look out for future glossaries in years to come.
The last content series we launched this year deserved its own announcement:
This summer, we launched a new Success Stories blog, a central resource library where we share the captivating stories of real One-Key end users, wins they’ve celebrated using the platform, and processes they’ve adopted to help you stay inspired and get new ideas of how you might use the app and connected devices and tools to drive greater efficiency onsite.
In addition to the Success Stories blog, we also released a longer-form product storytelling example where we shared some tips on how One-Key and PACKOUT™ Modular Storage go hand-in-hand as well as how two users have connected these systems to drive greater physical and digital organization.
We recommend reading these stories and bookmarking the Success Stories blog as we continue to roll out new, inspiring user storytelling and we also would love to hear and share your own stories. If you’ve found success using the One-Key app, we’d be honored if you’d share a review on App Store or Google Play—we may reach out to you to see if you’d be interested in sharing your experience with our readers!
As is tradition starting from last year, we’ve connected with One-Key team members and compiled a playlist of our collective Spotify Wrapped—an eclectic fusion of many different musical genres the team enjoys! We hope you’ll find some earworms from the team’s playlist:
If you’ve made it to the end of this article, congratulations! As we head into the holidays and prepare for 2024, here are some possible holiday gifts for the tool manager in your life:
From all of us here at Milwaukee® on the One-Key team, we wish you a happy holidays with your families and friends!