For all the talk on technology, particularly social and mobile technologies, an intranet is mostly people and process. And it is not a communications or IT project, it is a *business system* meant to support and enhance the entire organization including communications, IT, HR, etc. The focus must first be on governance — namely ownership, […]
Part I of a four part series on great intranets. “Technology is just the enabler; people and process drive social business,” says Gloria Burke, Chief Knowledge Officer, Unisys. Unisys is a worldwide information technology company that provides a portfolio of IT services, software, and technology and more than 23,000 employees in more than 100 countries. […]
SharePoint 2013 is a robust portal and social media platform. SharePoint offers a lot, but out of the box, it can be less than thrilling, which has given rise to leading alternatives and optional platforms such as Jive and Yammer. Many companies are wrestling with the question: will SharePoint alone meet our needs? Or should […]
SharePoint is present in 80% of the Fortune 100; and plays a prominent intranet role in about 70% of knowledge worker intranets (either powering the main intranet portal, or delivering associated collaboration sites and/or document repositories). This in spite of its history. SharePoint 2007 was a poor, often frustrating solution; SharePoint 2010 was a step […]
Harvard Business School conducted and ROI-engagement study that revealed for every 1% increase in employee engagement, the return on investment (ROI) for a social intranet increased 1000%. Wow. I’m not sure that this is the case at every organization, it sounds a little high, but the point is clear — small increases in employee engagement […]
(NEW YORK, NY) Lawyers love pouring cold water on new ideas; “that’s not the way we work,” or they proclaim something to do with “liability” and “privacy regulations” as knee-jerk arguments for blocking innovation. “Sometimes listening to legal counsel is not always the best thing to do, “ says Shel Holtz, consultant and Principal of […]