This is the second future scenario exploring the future of intranets (and beyond) in organisations. The first covered Sarah's first days at work, and this looks at innovation, product management and streamlining business processes. It's an impressive list. When all laid ...
Monthly Archives: January 2010
January 28, 2010
Future scenario: driving the engine of change
Categorised under: Enterprise 2.0, Future intranet, Intranets
Tags: future, future scenario, innovation, Intranets
January 27, 2010
Finalising Europe in March
I'm going to have a busy three weeks in Europe in March, and most of the details are now finalised. I'm starting with a keynote presentation on "Intranets in 2015" at IntraTeam Event 2010 in Denmark (March 2-4), and wrapping up with a keynote on the Intranet Innovation Award winners ...
Categorised under: Conferences & presentations
January 25, 2010
The weight of the existing intranet
Some time back, we worked for a large government agency. Their intranet was terrible, a huge collection of separate sites dating back over a decade. New sites has been published in waves, but IT didn't feel that they had the authority to delete old sites. As the organisation constantly restructured, ...
Categorised under: Intranets
Tags: cultural change, governance, Intranets
January 25, 2010
Migrating to a new intranet – how do you support the content owners?
Dorthe Jespersen has written about supporting content owners during migration. To quote: The content owners may have many questions: Where does our content go in the new structure? What content do we actually have? Should we delete some of it? Will time be allowed for content quality and improvement work? ...
Categorised under: Intranets
Tags: content migration, Intranets
January 22, 2010
Recordkeeping’s hill to climb
I've just spent the last two days helping an Australian government agency develop their web CMS requirements. As one might expect, the topic of recordkeeping came up, and how it should relate the CMS and intranet. I also had a long conversation at the end of the first day with ...
Categorised under: Document & records management, Information management
Tags: recordkeeping, records management
January 19, 2010
Video interview with Prophet on streamlining 360 degree feedback
We often talk about using the intranet to save time, and to streamline common business tasks. This is all about taking a cumbersome existing process, and replacing it with an online version that works spectacularly ...
Categorised under: intranet innovation awards, Intranets
January 18, 2010
Social intranet products: am I missing something?
I've been looking at a number of "social" and "enterprise 2.0" intranet solutions recently. (I won't name them, as we maintain strict vendor-neutrality.) These are all intended to be out-of-the-box intranet solutions for medium-sized organisations, and they provide rich social functionality. This includes: team spaces wikis blogs social updates (eg Facebook/Twitter) rich personal profiles home-page "latest updates" ...
Categorised under: Collaboration, Enterprise 2.0, Intranets
Tags: Intranets, social media
January 18, 2010
In-house presentations on intranets
We've seen a lot of intranets, and have worked with a lot of organisations. With three years of the global Intranet Innovation Awards under our belts, we have a remarkable collection of intranet case studies, covering every industry and focus. It's therefore about time we highlighted the in-house presentations we ...
Categorised under: Conferences & presentations, Intranets
Tags: business case, Intranets
January 15, 2010
Video interview with AEP on award-winning ideas system
When I was in San Jose for the KMWorld conference, I organised an awards ceremony for the US winners of the Intranet Innovation Awards. This also allowed me to do video interviews with a number of ...
Categorised under: Enterprise 2.0, intranet innovation awards, Intranets
Tags: ideas system, innovation, intranet innovation awards, Intranets
January 13, 2010
Sprint’s intranet engages all employees from entry level to executives
Jennifer Sniderman explains how social tools on Sprint's intranet, "Sprint Space," helps to engage staff:
Categorised under: Enterprise 2.0, Intranets
Tags: blogs, Intranets, social tools
January 12, 2010
New articles, every month
Now that the festive season has passed, it's worth highlighting our regular schedule of articles. Every month (starting in February) we publish three articles: one large one, and two smaller ones. These cover a wide range of topics, including intranets, usability, information architecture, knowledge management, content management, information management, and ...
Categorised under: Uncategorized
January 11, 2010
Workplace web – 3 models
Jane McConnell explores 3 models for intranets, within the framework of the "workplace web". To quote: We proposed 3 models of the workplace web to the 300 participating organizations. The rest of this post is an extract of the diagrams and text from the chapter "Future Intranet: the front door ...
Categorised under: Intranets
Tags: Intranets
January 6, 2010
How to generate business support for intranet innovation
Just before Christmas I gave an in-house presentation at a major Australian bank. In this organisation, the intranet team has recently delivered the start of a major intranet upgrade, and are now working on building support for their next steps. This came about because the intranet manager attended our Sydney ...
Categorised under: intranet innovation awards, Intranets
January 4, 2010
‘Simon’ says … check out this branded intranet
The Financial Brand talks about 'Simon', a highly-branded intranet at Delta Community. To quote: The Financial Brand interviewed Mary Olson, VP of Marketing, Delta Community, and talked about the credit union’s creative — and branded – employee intranet, affectionately named “Simon.” Simon is the portal for all employee communications — ...
Categorised under: Intranets
