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What can you make with Plasticine? Anything, really, depending on your sculptural talents and your command of fine motor skills, although that “anything” is limited by the inherent properties of Plasticine. That is, you can’t make a real motor out of it, but you can make a model one.
When managing a company's business processes, there's something to be said for seeing "the big picture." As group network manager, my team responds to the needs of five companies, including two international firms and a sales and manufacturing plant in India. While GIS (our corporate IT team) drives IT overall, I'm responsible for group-level IT, including business processes, application integrations, and IT initiatives.
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When intranet managers gather, common topics arise: authoring and publishing models, maintaining content quality, designing and structuring sites, protecting the intranet homepage, making search work, and choosing a suitable intranet technology. These are important topics, but they can be considered “intranet fundamentals.” They have been well-covered and addressed. But that doesn’t mean that this knowledge is shared. The intranet industry has two tasks ahead of it: Spreading Best Practices and Innovating Intranets.
For better or worse, intranets are—when compared to public-facing sites—bastions of publishing freedom. And with all the Web 2.0 technologies spawning new applications on what feels like a daily basis, the power to create intranet content is greater than ever before. Yet when we talk with folks about their intranets, we are often met with nervous looks and giggles or dismissive hand waves because the idea of truly fixing the intranet seems to be some unattainable ideal. There is the sense that if the public can't see the painfully low quality of the intranet, then it's OK for now. Everyone knows that intranets are broken, but fixing them is a lower priority than fixing public websites. I disagree.
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Reviewed this issue: SharePoint Roadmap for Collaboration and FUMSI Reports: Survey on Intranet Management, Folio on Intranet Management
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