Three ways to deliver mobile solutions

By: James Robertson Posted: November 29, 2012

It’s hard to escape the frantic activity in the mobile space these days. In addition to the thousands of consumer apps being created, organisations are steadily delivering mobile functionality for …

Taking care with intranet information architecture concepts

By: James Robertson Posted: November 29, 2012

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 …

What’s the elevator pitch for enterprise social tools?

By: James Robertson Posted: November 21, 2012

How can we best sell the benefits of enterprise social?

I was pleased to be able to present in Canberra today, as part of World Usability Day. My topic was “How design is transforming modern intranets”. The key points I …

Use your CMS to improve intranet content

By: James Robertson Posted: October 31, 2012

We have written a number of articles on how to improve intranet content including Improving intranet content and Helping intranet authors write quality content. Most of these activities focus on …

Global, local and enterprise search

By: James Robertson Posted: October 30, 2012

This is a sketch that I drew while sitting in one of the enterprise search presentations at the recent KMWorld conference in Washington, DC. It explores the question: what should …

Join the intranet in crowd

By: James Robertson Posted: October 25, 2012

When it comes to intranets, it’s great to be part of a community that you can trust. This gives you a way to share your successes (and hurdles), and to …

Should intranet teams stop and do mobile instead?

By: James Robertson Posted: October 24, 2012

At one of the international events I’ve been at over the last three weeks, I was talking about enterprise mobility. After I was finished, someone in the audience asked me …

Intranets play a strategic role in times of disruptive change

By: James Robertson Posted: October 18, 2012

For the last few months, we’ve been working with a high profile firm that’s going through an immense amount of organisational change. The entire industry they operate in is undergoing …

Presentation: Governance for SharePoint intranets

By: James Robertson Posted: October 9, 2012

Yesterday I gave a presentation in Denmark to a diverse group of organisations, all wrestling with SharePoint. While they’d all found SharePoint to be useful, the common story was the …