Intranet Focus

As Chairman of the conference it is difficult for me to be neutral about whether or not it was a success beyond the fact that there were over 100 people in the room. However I’ve received quite a number of emails from delegates commenting favourably on the event, and throughout the two days there were  animated [...]

A number of new books and reports have arrived on my desk over the last couple of months. I hope to get around to reviewing them shortly, but in the meantime here are some brief details. Innovations in Information Retrieval. Allen Foster and Pauline Rafferty (Editors). Facet Publishing. This is a set of seven essays [...]

Two weeks today the Enterprise Search Europe conference will be starting at the Hilton Olympia Hotel, London.  Launching a new conference in the middle of a difficult economic situation could have been a challenge but we had excellent support from our sponsors right from the start. The result of their support and an excellent programme of speakers [...]

The announcement has just been made of the  winners in the StepTwo Designs 2011 Intranet Innovation Awards. I have been a judge of these awards since their inception and look forward every year to working through the entries. This year there were 50 entries from around the world, though some of them were disappointingly presented. When I [...]

Apple and I go a long way back. From 1979 to 1981 I worked for a company called Creative Strategies International, set up Larry Wells and Dave Norman, who knew each other at Stanford Research Institute. CSI was one of the first of the high-tech market research and forecasting companies. Dave Norman went on to [...]

Three weeks to go now before the first-ever conference in Europe totally devoted to enterprise search.  Enterprise Search Europe 2011 opens for registration at the Hilton Olympia Hotel on Monday 24 October.  By the close at 5pm on Tuesday we aim to have found an answer to all your enterprise search challenges.  The topic range [...]

Following on from a couple of successful intranet roadmap workshops earlier this year the UKeiG Intranet Forum is now running two more of these workshops. The first takes place in Birmingham on 6 October and the second in London on 17 November.  The workshops will be facilitated by myself and Dion Lindsay, bringing together our experience [...]

It has been difficult to concentrate on anything this weekend as the events of 9/11 are commemorated.  I certainly remember the beautiful weather that morning in Washington DC.  Together with colleagues Howard McQueen and Kiki Ross I was working at the IMF on my first major intranet project, and we were rather overwhelmed by the scale of [...]

Over the last few months a number of very interesting reports and surveys have been published, and in this post I have provided some brief reviews of them. ‘Big Data’ is emerging as an important topic.  The McKinsey Global Institute have published a superb report on the challenges and opportunities of Big Data. The title [...]