Building a Business Case for your new Intranet

Making a case for building or redesigning your company's intranet in the current climate can be tricky. With senior management scrutinising every penny spent in an organisation you have to be able to prove that the investment in a new or improved intranet solution is going to bring a clear return on investment and not just be a 'nice to have'.

Writing a good business case plays a crucial part in getting the support necessary to make an intranet project successful and it needs to be based on the business priorities of the senior management and focus on improving how employees work on a day to day basis.

However, for many intranet managers the task of putting together a business case can seem a daunting prospect so below we have listed some key ideas for what to include to help you build a relevant and robust case.

Source: www.interact-intranet.com Posted by InteractIntranet 40 days, 10 hours, 59 minutes ago

A business case for an intranet is like the business case for a bathroom; you can live without them (and use others), but you’re a fool if you do.

Social media has morphed to the intranet, and the intranet is becoming increasingly social. However, like the Internet, email, telephone, and other business transforming technology, the need for a social intranet is more implicit, rather than explicit. We all need email, don’t we? But did you need a business case to get your corporate email account?

Source: www.cmswire.com Posted by admin 355 days, 6 hours, 22 minutes ago

Recently there have been a number of blogs and articles written on the Return on Investment (ROI) for Enterprise 2.0 (E2.0) solutions as these systems have gained popularity and a foothold in companies.

In this day and age, executives and key stakeholders will care about three attributes which are cost, time and quality. However, with the ongoing financial uncertainties in the global economy many executive will narrow their focus to cost.

Source: aiimcommunities.org Posted by bee 623 days, 18 hours, 21 minutes ago

Many organizations are planning or are already in the middle of deploying collaboration technology to their global organization. Before you go much further, ask yourself if you've identified these three elements of your collaboration strategy.

1. Define the Business Context

2. Identify the Degree of Openness

3. Establish Goals and Objectives

Source: www.cmswire.com Posted by admin 654 days, 4 hours, 46 minutes ago

ThoughtFarmer has been working with Penn State University’s Outreach department since January 2009 when they launched their new ThoughtFarmer-powered intranet, our.outreach. Bevin Hernandez recently keynoted at Enterprise 2.0 in Boston and shared some of her experiences with conference attendees, talking about some of the cultural elements and aspects of social intranets.

Source: www.thoughtfarmer.com Posted by bee 685 days, 17 hours, 49 minutes ago

For many intranet teams, funding and resourcing is incredibly tight. The intranet is often a poor cousin to an organisation’s public website, and its worth to the organisation is rarely demonstrated well.

Intranet teams also rarely have direct lines of communication to senior management who, as infrequent users of the site, have little understanding of its complexity or potential.

As a result, when it comes to getting funding for a new content management system (CMS), or developing and adding new applications and services, making the case is an uphill struggle.

Yet there is great potential in intranets; we only need to look at the winners of the Intranet Innovation Awards to see how useful, powerful and valuable intranets and related services can be.

Read some compelling examples

Source: www.steptwo.com.au Posted by support 725 days, 14 hours ago