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The Copernicus Group Independent Review Board (CGIRB) has a mandate to protect human research subjects within clinical research projects. This results in millions of pages of documents coming in to CGIRB, including things such as the study's protocols, the informed consent forms signed by the human subjects, and the credentials of the investigators. On an average weekly basis, CGIRB was generating the equivalent of 22' of paper.
Kathmandu provides quality outdoor clothing and equipment for travel and adventure throughout stores across New Zealand, Australia, and the U.K. Kathmandu's head office faces the challenge of communicating efficiently and consistently to a dispersed and rapidly expanding network of retail stores. The company enlisted Intranet DASHBOARD (iD) to create an intranet not only to address these challenges, but also to improve the overall operational efficiency of the company in readiness for ongoing growth and success.
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Since Apple, Inc. launched its App Store, more than 1 billion applications have been downloaded. This year, it expanded the idea to cover its Mac computers and sold 1 million apps on launch day. Given such unequivocal success, are there things that we might learn for the intranet world? Perhaps intranet interfaces should look more like a collection of apps than a website? Or could it be a way for employees to create a personalized experience? Both of these have merit, but what I feel has more potential in the near term is a third version: an app store for intranet site owners.
On a silver platter" has come to mean "without work or effort." Wouldn't you love to get all the information you need to do your job on a silver platter, displayed elegantly to you, just like a well-trained server in a classy restaurant offering patrons their choice of delicacies? That's what is happening in a lot of intranets where information sprawl, out-of-control navigation, and indiscriminate information push are overwhelming people. The problem is that silver platters don't last.
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