Intranet Focus

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 [...]

I’ve been waiting for some time to unleash this blog title! The ink now seems (late on Thursday night!) to be dry on the acquisition of Autonomy by HP for around $10 billion, of which founder Dr. Mike Lynch will get 8%. Microsoft buys FAST Search, Dassault buys Exalead, and Oracle buys inQuira. To be [...]

I have spent just over four decades in the information business, and as people who know me are very aware I will take every possible opportunity to promote the importance of effective information management. Despite the pioneering work of Don Marchand organisations still fail to understand the impact of not being able to find information that they [...]

Google today announced that it would be acquiring Motorola Mobility for around $12bn, with the deal closing at the end of 2011 or early 2012.  Larry Page seems confused about just what he has bought, as his press release referred to the acquisition of Motorola, which no longer exists, though Motorola Solutions does. The headlong [...]

One of the highlights of the Enterprise Search Summit 2011 was the presentation by Greg Nudelman on how to make effective use of search for ecommerce applications.  The challenges for smartphone use are considerable, and I suspect that most intranet managers have not fully appreciated the amount of innovation and development that will be needed to deliver intranet content to [...]

This book has been a long time in the writing but the end result is well worth the wait. Lou Rosenfeld, (co-author with Peter Morville of Information Architecture for the World Wide Web) has written a stunning book on how to optimise web sites and intranets through the careful use of analytics.  There have been many [...]

From quite a long career in market research I learned that the more value a participant gained from completing a survey the more likely they were to do so. In the case of NetStrategyJMC’s annual Digital Workplace Survey participants receive a copy of the complete report in October, just in time to use it in [...]

This year is shaping up to be the best year from a business perspective since I set up Intranet Focus Ltd in 1999.  Among the highlights so far have been Writing a research report on enterprise mobile applications for the Intranet Benchmarking Forum Working with SparkNow on a KM project for a development bank Having [...]