The “managing an intranet during a recession” topic seems to be popping up all over the globe, and we covered it at last week’s Intranet Leadership Forum workshop in Melbourne.

Interesting, when we asked for a show of hands from those feeling the pinch due to the economic conditions, only one hand went up (and they were from a bank, so no big surprise). No problem for the session, still plenty to discuss on how to demonstrate value and on achieving sustainability for the intranet team.

But it raises the question: are intranet teams feeling the pinch?

I see a few possibilities:

1. There’s a time lag, and the impact of the worsening economic conditions will hit intranet teams soon.
2. Intranet are so buried in organisations that they will be shielded from macro-economic issues.
3. Intranet teams are already poorly resourced, and this won’t change much regardless of what’s happening outside.
4. Intranet teams are naively oblivious of what’s happening in the real world, and the coming storm.

Your thoughts?