Who should own the intranet? Communications? IT? HR? All of them? You may be shocked to learn that many companies don’t know the answer; in fact, many organizations can’t clearly answer with any confidence whom is the present intranet owner. Gone are the days where a single IT geek creates an intranet on a server [...]

Politics will kill your intranet. Without a well defined governance model and should your intranet survive the naturally occurring politics of competing priorities amongst various stakeholder

(PARIS) Only one in five organizations have senior executives that think the intranet is mission-critical, according to Jane McConnell

A new poll from a vendor shows that nearly 50% of UK organisations could be leaving themselves open to litigation through managing their corporate policies primarily on the intranet (see Businesses warned over use of intranet).   I could not find the actual poll results and the company that conducted the poll, NETconsent, does not [...]

Are there any geeks out there that can recite most of the scenes from Life of Brian? No I didn

Like a child, an intranet is a lot of work

An intranet redesign is like a political campaign

Great intranets are rarely done solely in-house. There

The greatest barrier to intranet success is politics. Technology, budget, skill set are all secondary barriers. The intranet is a political football. Why is the intranet so political? Well, most intranets are still viewed as cost centers and they don’t grab the attention and focus of senior management. As such, the current state and evolution [...]