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Intranets are not just intranets anymore

Written by James Robertson, published October 27, 2008

Categorised under: Intranets

Shiv Singh writes about some of the assumptions about intranets, and how they may be changing into the future. To quote:

I spent the better part of yesterday locked in a brainstorming room with a client and my team as we discussed what a next generation intranet should look like. I was struck by how little some business assumptions have changed in the last few years. We forget these assumptions as we strategize, design and build next generation intranets. Here are a few of those assumptions.

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4 Comments:

  1. Matt Moore commented on October 27th, 2008

    Interesting. Where is the link ot the original article?

  2. James Robertson commented on October 27th, 2008

    Sorry about that, fixed now!

  3. SharePoint_Intranet commented on October 28th, 2008

    Excelent post Shiv.

    James, Thanks for the link. This was an excellent post by Shiv.

    SharePoint and InfoPath are the tools we use to ensure “Intranets are not just intranets anymore”. We have made excellent progress in redefining the intranet in multiple organization doing exactly what you suggest : Extending the intranet as a suite of critical web based business applications that drives employee productivity and collaboration.

    BM

  4. James Robertson commented on October 29th, 2008

    This is something that I’ve also been talking about, and I argue that there are four fundamental purposes for an intranet:

    * content
    * communication
    * collaboration
    * activity

    It’s the activity aspect that has been most neglected, but is the most important in terms of delivering business value.

    You can hear more in this short slidecast:

    http://www.slideshare.net/jamesr/the-four-purposes-of-an-intranet/