La Ligue Contre le Cancer completely rethought its intranet to put people at the center: finding the right contacts, accessing key resources, and aligning 104 local committees around shared communication, on SharePoint and with Jint.
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Local committees connected
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Years of history preserved
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Content burden for local teams
A centralized people directory lets every Ligueur quickly locate the right contact by role, topic, or committee.
‍A structured knowledge base, maintained by headquarters topic teams, preserves 108 years of institutional memory and reduces the knowledge loss that comes with turnover.
‍Only headquarters teams publish content. Local committees read, comment, and react, without any publishing burden.
La Ligue Contre le Cancer is a national French association with a committee in every department, including overseas territories. With 108 years of history, it operates across four areas: prevention, patient support, research funding, and public advocacy. With 104 local committees, hundreds of employees, and thousands of volunteers spread across France, la Ligue is one of the most decentralized non-profit organizations in the country. A "Ligueur" might be a headquarters employee, a local committee director, or a volunteer supporting patients at a nearby hospital, each with very different levels of digital fluency.
Launched in 2017, la Ligue's first intranet was built on a decentralized model: each local committee had its own content space. A good idea in theory, a burden in practice. Committees already stretched thin saw content publishing as an extra chore rather than a useful tool.
By 2019, warning signs were mounting: low visit rates, difficulty finding the right contacts, a knowledge base no one could navigate. The tool was technically outdated, but the real issue ran deeper: the entire approach was wrong.
After the first intranet failed, la Ligue could have switched platforms entirely. They chose the opposite: stay in the Microsoft ecosystem and finally unlock its full potential, with Jint and integration partner SQLI. The strategic rationale was clear: la Ligue is working toward 3–4 unified environments (Microsoft 365, Salesforce, Odoo…). A well-integrated SharePoint intranet becomes the central hub, connected to Teams, OneDrive, and all daily work applications. SQLI's support was crucial, structuring the project, involving key users from the design phase, and running a phased rollout tested with a group of pilot committees before the national launch.
