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The intranet offers a unique opportunity to share content. However, you must empower users to participate by providing employees the tools to create, capture, and converse within a sensible governance framework.
Like any Fortune 500 company, Ingersoll Rand understands the importance of bringing newly hired employees into the fold the right way—with a clear understanding of who the company is, what it does, and of course, what is expected of every new employee. Providing this information is not nearly as easy as it sounds—as the leading diversified industrial company, best known for its construction and mining machinery, can attest.
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Many information managers tout the essential value of collaboration tools. At organizations today, there are internal races to create the best community space or social networking environment. This quest for collaboration is not just driven by information managers, it is central to organizational dynamics in the 21st century, and significantly influenced by internet capabilities. However, unless there is a shared purpose, most of us simply do not have the time to engage in sharing information just for the sake of it. And, somewhere along the race to the finish line (should there be one), organizations are going to question the value received from social networking and collaboration efforts. Smart ones will ask this up front.
Q. We have just had our website benchmarked against those of our competitors and now my VP wants me to do the same for our intranet. How should I go about doing this?
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here are various approaches to benchmarking an intranet, but what I can say for certain is that you are
not going to be able to do so against those of your competitors. In the U.K., there is a very active Intranet Benchmark Forum...
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