"The cloud" is ever-present these days, backed by a huge marketing push from multiple vendors, including Microsoft, Google, Amazon and Apple. Backed by immense data centres located in (often) rural locations, "the cloud" will apparently transform our lives. While it's still early days for the ...
Articles tagged: intranet teams
Intranet teams need technology savvy
Intranets are increasingly being owned and managed by communications teams or business areas. In general, this is a positive shift, leading to greater alignment with staff and organisational priorities. However, the move away from IT ownership, can leave intranet teams with a significant knowledge and skills gap relating to technology. In ...
Understanding new solutions
In today's world new solutions and applications appear every day, and some are more useful and interesting than others. It's part of an intranet team's role to know what's around and be able to make recommendations about suggested improvements. However some teams are reluctant to explore new areas such as ...
Measuring the effectiveness of intranet teams
Intranet teams are responsible for creating an intranet that is a useful business tool, flexible enough to meet changing business needs, easy to use and trusted by staff. In doing this, teams also need to assess how effectively they work. In a previous article we explained How intranet teams should ...
Recommended reading for intranet teams
There are many ways to learn about all things intranet. On the job is the most common way, with learning from peers in close second place. There is now an expanding number of books that are useful for intranet teams. In this article we outline some recommended reading. General Every intranet team's ...
