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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.
Enterprise Portal software is often purchased to “unify” disparate intranets into a single interface. Indeed, portals are typically sold on the basis of providing a unified dashboard or information access point into diverse enterprises. But what does that interface look like, and how well does it work?
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Web 2.0 has to be one of the hottest buzzwords ever to hit the web. The basic principle is that the web is a platform, but more than that it is a service—with software, data, and people interacting. What really matters in a world enriched by Web 2.0 are the services available and the collective intelligence that can be brought to bear on any given problem.
I conducted a study entitled “Intranet Strategies Today and Tomorrow” during summer 2006 with large, complex, and global organizations. Approximately 90 intranet managers answered questions about strategy, decision-making, budgeting, governance, ROI, measurement, Web 2.0 technologies, home page, content strategies, and language strategies.
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Reviewed this issue: Work Goes Mobile:Nokia’s Lessons from the Leading Edge; Risk Management for IT Projects: How to Deal with over 150 Issues and Risks; and Arnold IT
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