Posts tagged: tasks

Targeting enterprise search to key tasks

Enterprise search is often deployed as ‘the answer’ for the difficulties of finding information across an entire organisation. The basic concept is that the enterprise search indexes ‘everything’, and findability problems are solved. In practice, teams given the task of designing and deploying enterprise search find these projects much more complex. Many questions need to [...]

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Identifying staff tasks

Intranets are most useful when they help staff do their jobs. This includes finding a key piece of information (‘what is the address for our interstate office?’) or completing a process online (‘I need to apply for some leave over Christmas’). The best approach for helping staff is to focus on tasks. These are the [...]

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