Portfolio Archive

Sharepoint. Need I say more? Shared drive, website, what?!

From a quick scan of the blogosphere its become pretty apparent I’m not the only one questioning what exactly Microsoft have been up to with Sharepoint?!? Have their software architects been sitting completely siloed and at the last moment bolted together various ‘bits’ to make the overall “Sharepoint” product.

Don’t get me …

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Intranet – measuring effectiveness with sensible metrics

Making nice graphs with such volume measures as “documents added, documents downloaded, community members etc.”, is all well and done, but the question that must resonate is “What real use are these to show how my business operates?!“.

Instead value drivers pushing forward action such …

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Building An Online Community – Organisational Intranet

You may find that colleagues, especailly senior colleagues are cautious over the implimentation of so-called community building or collaborative software. However, with the correct departmental governance and policing, and best practice of this area, community software can be utilised to its full benefit as a useful and integrated business tool.…

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Ownership of Intranets? Information Architecture.

I was passed a fantastic link to Joel Olesons’s blog post on the Microsoft Developer Network at:

http://blogs.msdn.com/joelo/archive/2007/03/16/information-architecture-and-the-information-architect.aspx

Though Joel’s post is essentially discussing the deployment of Microsoft Sharepoint in an Enterprise environment its essentially questioning the very core of what is an Intranet environment for any content management! Not …

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Organisational Expectations of an Intranet

Organisations anticipate a return on the investment involved in implementing Intranets expressed in financial terms or intangible benefits; an expectation their Intranet will either save money, enhance efficiency or both.

Organisations however, are not cohesive bodies with unified needs or interests; instead they are formed by individuals, each with their own …

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Business Strategies, Information Systems and People: Holistic Approach

Information Architecture and Information Retrieval

Intranet information retrieval requires more often than not implicit end-user understanding to the nature and location of information sought since architecturally information organically mirrors organisational layout rather than information ‘typing’. Semantic linkage and intelligible meta data unfortunately take a back seat. As a result it is …

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Business benefit of ensuring fit for purpose presentation layer

“What exactly is the business benefit of doing that?”, a cry oft heard.

Well, what exact business benefit is there for not ensuring the presentation layer is ‘fit for purpose’? To build a “web” based application meeting all specific requirements and policies in regards scalability and the like – then …

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