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Innovation equals originality plus impact. Innovative ideas are not simply new; they must also deliver concrete benefits, creating something of value or making things easier and quicker.
Enterprise portals promise increased productivity, utility, and convenience by gathering scattered content and functionality into a single destination experience. Yet many portals become victims of their own success. Rapid expansion and frequent changes in audience and content lead to problems of poorly integrated or conflicting assets, impaired usability and findability, and inflated management and IT support costs. The cumulative inconvenience of sprawling collections of portlets stuck in a flat information architecture quickly overwhelms the value of the business assets, content, and functionality the portal brings together.
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I once ran a workshop for corporate intranet managers who asked me to describe the ideal homepage for their new enterprise portal. I sketched an empty box on the whiteboard, drew a line from top to bottom separating the box into two parts, one with 10% of the space and the other 90%. I told them that all they had to worry about was the little box. Local news, content, and business applications would fill the big box. My answer shocked them into several moments of stunned silence.
What is happening and where is the intranet industry heading? Here are the eight trends I'm currently seeing through my work at the Intranet Benchmarking Forum...
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Reviewed this issue: Enterprise 2.0: How Social Software Will Change the Future of Work, Collaboration and Social Media 2008 , and The Impact of Information Technology (IT) on Businesses and their Leaders
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