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Articles by Jean Graef
The planning model you choose for your intranet, extranet, or portal project can determine your success in getting initial funding, keeping the project on track, increasing user productivity, and giving the organization an acceptable return on its investment. In this article we compare time/cost surveys with three other planning models that, under the right circumstances, provide a more comprehensive, accurate, and agile roadmap for intranet success.
The issue of corporate taxonomies—systems for naming and organizing things that share similar characteristics into groups—first appeared on Montague Institute members’ radar back in 1999. At that time, we convened a roundtable to explore a collaborative development effort in which different companies, possibly in the same industry, would share the costs of creating taxonomies everyone could use. As it turned out, a cooperative joint venture for corporate taxonomies was neither feasible nor necessary. In the first place, companies can license taxonomies from many sources, including publishers, professional associations, and software vendors. In the second place, corporate information and the taxonomies used to organize it are viewed by most companies as key intellectual assets to be used for competitive advantage. But the idea of collaborative taxonomy development is not dead.
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