Redesigning an intranet does not mean you are fixing it; a broken intranet requires a lot of work and design is one of the smallest components.   While important, even technology is not the most important ingredient. Far more important to the success of any intranet is people and process.   There

Forget the look-and-feel. Put it out of your mind. The look-and-feel or design of your intranet or portal is window dressing

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The start of a new year brings a lot of predictions

(New York, NY) Branding is a funny game

In his May 23 Useit.com column Jakob Nielsen talks about intranet design and how more and more intranets are beginning to look alike.  

Most of you have either recently undertaken or plan to undertake in the near future an intranet home page redesign. Hence, the focus of redesign over the past week. 

An intranet redesign is like a political campaign

Like intranets, not all intranet consultants are created equal. Building or redesigning an intranet requires a lot of work that usually requires months, or most often, years. If you decide to build or rebuild the intranet, who will be minding the store? An intranet requires: Employee input (research) Best practices intelligence (benchmarking) Business requirements analysis [...]