Target emotions in the business case

By: James Robertson Posted: May 28, 2009

Many web and intranet teams will be expected to create business cases at some point in their work. These may be for major website redevelopments, selection of new technology platforms, …

Going beyond reducing intranet frustration

By: James Robertson Posted: May 28, 2009

A lot of work is done to incrementally improve intranets, often focusing on resolving common areas of staff frustration with the sites. These projects may be large or small, but …

Five intranet publishing models

By: James Robertson Posted: May 28, 2009

Intranets can grow to be thousands, tens of thousands or millions of pages in size. With content as far as the eye can see, the challenge is to keep it …

Sources of staff directory information

By: James Robertson Posted: April 28, 2009

Intranet-based staff directories are only truly useful when they contain comprehensive information about staff members. This means going beyond just a name, phone number and email address. Staff directories should …

Principles for designing global-local intranets

By: James Robertson Posted: April 22, 2009

A little while back I wrote a post about the global-local challenge for many intranets. To quote: In any large organisations, there will be many different business units, with different …

Beware of using opinions to design an intranet

By: James Robertson Posted: March 27, 2009

I’ve just settled back in from my most recent conference tour, and I’ve spent a lot of time talking with intranet teams from a wide variety of organisations, across three …

Does your intranet close the business process loop?

By: James Robertson Posted: March 23, 2009

Intranets are great places for staff to ‘get things done’. In tough economic times, many organisations are rediscovering that their intranet can be a very cost-effective way to help staff …

We’re conducting our yearly review of the Intranet Leadership Forum at present. A big part is to look back at lessons learnt over the last year. When we first set …

Needs analysis from a distance

By: James Robertson Posted: February 11, 2009

How do you address the needs of staff that work in a different city, state or country? Visiting each of these offices may not always be practical. Therefore different techniques …

Tackling the global-local challenge?

By: James Robertson Posted: February 4, 2009

In recent projects, we’ve been doing a lot of work relating to what Jane McConnell calls the global-local challenge of intranets. In any large organisations, there will be many different …