Intranet Focus

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 [...]

There is certainly a lot of information being published on intranets.  There are excellent reports  from Jane McConnell, James Robertson, Toby Ward and the Nielsen Norman Group, as well as the range of books and reports from the team at Step Two Designs. There are many very good intranet blogs , an increasing number of intranet-related conferences and the technology evaluation reports from [...]

I suspect that many SharePoint implementations are justified on the basis of improving collaboration, even though there is usually only at best anecdotal information about poor outcomes of collaborative working. Anecdotes usually form the basis of most books offering advice on collaboration, and the result that it is difficult to take advantage of the advice [...]

This is a list of companies and other organisations that have been profiled in the Nielsen Norman Group Intranet Design Annuals over the last four years. It may help you track down profiles of interest to your own organisation, either by sector or by country.  The reports are still available from the Nielsen Norman Group [...]

The subtitle of this report is The Year’s Ten Best Intranets, but this report is more than just very detailed profiles of ten  intranets.  The NNGroup have been running this competition since 2001 and so can place trends and developments into a long term perspective. What marks out these profiles is that they are not written by journalists [...]