Posts tagged: Information architecture

This is why structuring your intranet along organisation lines is a bad idea

Martin White blogged yesterday about Watching an organisation reorganise – implications for IA and search, which shared the incredible animation created by Autodesk Research: This shows the evolution of Autodesk’s organisational structure over a span of 1498 days. This is best explained by the Autodesk research blog post. (I’d also strongly recommend changing the video [...]

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Taking care with intranet information architecture concepts

Intranet information architecture (IA) can be notoriously difficult to get right. Depending on the size and geographical spread of an organisation, an intranet can be required to serve a small team, or a global conglomerate and there are many different potential audiences. The article What is information architecture? provides an overview of the discipline itself [...]

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Designing an intranet’s policy section

Every intranet includes some of the organisation’s policies and procedures. This article outlines the common ways to collate and share this information. We will cover: different navigation methods examples of layout for content pages best practices for improving the experience for staff Policies and procedures are important information, and may apply over the whole organisation, [...]

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Spend 10-15% of SharePoint intranet projects on planning and design

The classic texts of project management outline the importance of initial planning and design activities. While they only consist of 10-30% of the project, they lay the groundwork for everything to come. This is no different in the world of SharePoint intranets. Quite the contrary: with the breadth of SharePoint, and the effort and cost [...]

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Intranets: global and local

Not all staff needs are the same. Staff in different parts of the organisation, located in different areas and doing different jobs will have quite distinct needs. In a globe-spanning manufacturing business, these differences are very obvious: individual countries sell different products; the sales division operates very differently from product development; and field engineers are [...]

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