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 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 […]
Like any software or intranet solution, it is easy to simply accept the de facto out-of-the-box (OOB) design and user experience. However, few organizations do that, and most spend a great deal of time and money on the design and user experience. Philips is a Dutch multinational engineering and electronics conglomerate headquartered in Amsterdam. It […]
There are a lot of reasons to buy into or upgrade to SharePoint 2013: the latest iteration of Microsoft’s portal-web development platform represents a massive, multi-million dollar upgrade on the previous version of SharePoint (a version that was typically oversold given its underwhelming if not frustrating performance and lack of execution). SharePoint 2013 is a […]
Intranet design – it is the first thing people think to change; the first thing people notice; the first thing people complain about; and it is the last thing that should be changed. Design has more to do with function than color; social is more concerned with process than technology. To many, particularly in IT, […]