Intranet team sizes, skills and capacity vary around the world. At a media company, one experienced intranet manager runs a very successful intranet, with a small amount of assistance from IT. At a major government department with 12 people in the team, the result is a fairly status quo intranet. So what is the optimal [...]
Categorised under: Intranets
Also tagged: authoring, governance, intranet teams, publishing
I’ve just closed the application process to join the Advisory Panel for my upcoming book. I’m now working through the list, whittling 50+ entries down to the chosen 30. More on this to come… In the meantime, one thing that was interesting was the diversity of job titles. These are the different titles used by [...]
Categorised under: Intranets
Also tagged: governance, intranet teams, Intranets, management
As new technologies are gaining a presence within organisations, we’re seeing some strategic conversations shifting from the “intranet” to the “digital workplace”. This encompasses traditional content publishing, news, social, collaboration, mobile (and beyond). This came into focus for us on a recent consulting project for a high-profile media company. With big changes needed, it was [...]
Categorised under: Digital workplace, Enterprise 2.0, Future intranet, Intranets
Also tagged: Collaboration, digital workplace, digital workplace teams, intranet teams, Intranets, leadership, roles
A lot of thinking needs to go into developing a SharePoint intranet, whether it’s a new site or an upgrade of an existing intranet. The knowledge and skills required is too much for one person, making it critical to put in place a ‘SharePoint dream team’. But what roles are required? Why build a dream [...]
Categorised under: Intranets, SharePoint
Also tagged: intranet teams, Intranets, planning, project plan, SharePoint
For the last ten years, we’ve worked with intranet teams across a wide variety of organisations, both large and small. It’s been good work, and together we’ve delivered some great intranets. What’s been surprising for us, however, is how many organisations we’ve worked with in the last year that don’t have an intranet team at [...]
Categorised under: Intranets
Also tagged: governance, intranet teams, Intranets, management, teams