Business cases can be boring. Following a corporate template, the pre-defined gaps are filled in with standard text, and the document goes to whatever committee has to sign it off. Before jumping straight into this, intranet teams can benefit from stepping back to look at the many ways a business ...
Articles tagged: business cases
Aligning the intranet business case against strategic priorities
A few weeks ago we ran an intranet strategy workshop for a major bank, helping them to identify approaches for their upcoming business case. Now we've been saying for a long time that strong business cases align closely with top-level organisational and strategic priorities. Beyond just "making information findable" or "creating ...
Finding compelling examples to build the intranet business case
For many intranet teams, funding and resourcing is incredibly tight. The intranet is often a poor cousin to an organisation's public website, and its worth to the organisation is rarely demonstrated well. Intranet teams also rarely have direct lines of communication to senior management who, as infrequent users of the ...
Educating the executive about the intranet
Executive support is crucial to successful development and evolution of an organisation's intranet. However in many organisations executive support is limited. Many executives do not even use the intranet, but ask others to find information for them. This article focuses on ways to educate the executive about the intranet, in a ...
Do you have an elevator pitch for your online activities?
Dorthe Raakjær Jespersen asks: do you have an elevator pitch for your online activities? To quote: It can be very tiring to have to explain the same things over and over again. But have you stopped to look at how you reply and respond to people? Are you speaking their ...
An accountant’s advice in making the business case for enterprise 2.0
Bill Ives highlights a report on creating a business case for web 2.0 and enterprise 2.0. To quote: While measuring return on investment on many enterprise 2.0 initiatives can be difficult, it is also very useful for a variety of reasons. The business case should ensure that the success ...
Planning to demonstrate success
Intranet teams are often expected to justify the work that they do, whether to protect current intranet resources, or to gain support for new projects and improvements. This leads to the requirement for an intranet business case, ideally with clear measures that quantify the value of the intranet and the benefits ...
