Intranet Focus

Yesterday 30 copies of Collaboration Roadmap arrived in the Intranet Focus office. This is Michael Sampson’s new book, and having a collection of most of the books ever written on collaboration I can confidently state that this is the definitive work. On 15 March Michael is running a Collaboration Masterclass at the Etc. venue in [...]

There are a lot of intranets around the world, though no-one is quite sure how many.  Most of the news about intranets is generated by larger organisations and I was interested in the recent analysis from Andrew Wright that challenged the view of the Nielsen Norman Group that smaller companies have better intranets. There have been [...]

There has been an increasing amount of interest in the evolution of intranets into digital workplaces. Towards the end of 2011 Infocentric Research and NetStrategy/JMC published reports that set out possible frameworks for digital workplaces. The Digital Workplace Forum has been launched by the Intranet Benchmarking Forum and Paul Miller’s book on digital workplaces is due out [...]

It was a fairly typical week in the office last week. The week had started with a very good blog post from Tony Byrne at the Real Story Group about how to avoid the enterprise SharePoint surprise, echoing comments made by attendees at a SharePoint symposium in Washington DC late last year. By the end [...]

Sadly Avi Rappoport is not updating her SearchTools web site due to professional commitments. Intranet Focus Ltd has therefore added a new Enterprise Search section to our web site that will not have the breadth of the Search Tools web site but will hopefully provide some useful resources to the enterprise search community.  On the site you [...]

Intranet Focus Ltd is working with several clients in the development of  digital workplace strategies.  One of challenges they face  is making a case for the investment decision. Trying to find a direct relationship between investment in information technology and corporate performance has always been a challenge. Professor Don Marchand developed his Information Orientation approach over ten years ago but unfortunately his book  does [...]

What will a digital workplace look like? It is well worth looking at a promotional video released by Corning Glass.  We take glass for granted but wearing my ex-chemist hat I can tell you that the formulation and production technology of glass is very complex and the big glass manufacturers go to very considerable lengths [...]

I thought you might find it useful to be reminded about some of the conferences and events that are coming up between now and the end of May. IntraTeam Event, Copenhagen,  28 Feb – 1 March This has been a consistently excellent intranet conference for many years. I’m having a year off from giving a [...]