Articles tagged: business case

Presentation: Making an essential intranet (London, October 2011 version)

Last week in London I had the pleasure of presenting at the Interactions 2011 conference. This was my opening keynote, outlining a vision for the role that intranets should play within organisations. Key ...

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Internal social tools that support the business

Yesterday I gave the keynote presentations at Intranätdagarna (Intranet Days) 2011 in Stockholm, Sweden. A friendly crowd, and some great presentations from the other speakers. The talk shared in this post looked at social ...

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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 ...

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Why your business needs an intranet

Kim Komando has written an article about why your business needs an intranet. To quote: One thing I like about running a small company is the ability to act quickly. Decisions are not bogged down by layers of management. In fact, most moves are made with the interested parties meeting ...

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An elevator pitch for you and your intranet

It's an old web tale: if you work at Apple's headquarters, One Infinite Loop in Cupertino, California, you may find yourself in the lift one day with Steve Jobs, Apple's billionaire CEO. It's reputedly one of Jobs's tendencies to say to any unlucky lift passenger, 'What do you do for ...

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Best new way to make an internal sale

Seth Godin talks about using video to make a business case. To quote: How do you get your boss to approve something, the customer service people to understand the pain a system is causing or the folks in engineering to see things your way? Powerpoint was invented for this precise function, ...

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How to manage an intranet

Gerry McGovern has just reignited the debate on the "time saving" metric for intranets. To quote: Let’s say that Organization A has 30,000 employees. Let’s say each employee does a particular task on average 50 times a year. Let’s say it takes 10 minutes longer than it should because it’s ...

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Justifying your knowledge management programme

Matt Moore has written a whitepaper on justifying your knowledge management programme. To quote: If you are running a knowledge management programme then you know that you do good work. Whether it is involves communities of practice, learning from projects and operational activities, or documenting organisation knowledge in a myriad ...

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The business case for Enterprise 2.0

Oscar Berg has written about the business case for Enterprise 2.0. To quote: Travel (and environmental) costs will decrease as a lot of face-to-face meetings can be replaced with virtual meetings Efficiency and productivity will increase as we get faster access to the information we need to carry out our tasks ...

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