The Information Governance is a serious business and probably too serious to be left solely in the hands of .......

1) IT Since the early 2000, IT people and teams have lost their supremacy and the exclusivity on information processing and business solutions.

IT people are responsible for the proper operation of systems and solutions agreed upon in the companies. Their role is essential and goes beyond the strictly technical concerns to ensure the highest level of services. The main challenges for IT managers, architects and developers are to constantly bring the most appropriate technology and the safest but also the most agile organization, the best ROI, an acceptable TCO, etc.,

And you want more than they deal with information governance! No, IT teams have first to support the business growth and more globally the company in its transformation.

Source: aiimcommunities.org Posted by bee 599 days, 1 hour, 37 minutes ago

“Intranet as a platform” can be an effective metaphor when communicating the purpose of the intranet to senior management.

A number of participants in the Global Intranet Strategies survey this year used the term “platform” when responding to the question “How have you achieved or increased the awareness and involvement of senior management in the intranet?”

Source: netjmc.com Posted by support 599 days, 18 hours, 50 minutes ago

How do you get a highly-regulated company – one of the world’s largest and most competitive banks – to collaborate using social media?

This talk provides a compelling set of lessons for morphing a conservative, hierarchical organization into one that’s agile and embraces community-driven change.

Source: humancloud.wordpress.com Posted by support 600 days, 16 hours, 5 minutes ago

Union Square Ventures' Fred Wilson wrote a post titled Social Layers and Social Intention. In it, he asked why the simple, 140-character maximum Twitter has succeeded, while the more ambitious FriendFeed ultimately failed to make it big. His answer?

Because FriendFeed was largely a social aggregator whereas Twitter is a service with specific social intent.

"Specific social intent". Yes, that's a great term. What focus does your site have? It's a powerful way to characterize the basis upon which software succeeds or fails. This comes from Fred Wilson, who has been right about things quite often with his firm's investments in Twitter, Zynga, Foursquare, Tumblr and others.

Source: blog.spigit.com Posted by support 606 days, 15 hours, 28 minutes ago

Ready to roll out your new Enterprise 2.0 Strategy? Looking to save the company millions by implementing an internal social strategy? Think that implementing a blog will help you increase sales, cut support calls, and help unclutter your email Inbox?

Before you jump into the deep end and propose implementing any E2.0 solutions, you might want to take a look around and assess whether your organization has an understanding of what E2.0 really is and whether it is ready to take on an internal social strategy.

Source: www.intranetexperience.com Posted by support 610 days, 17 hours, 39 minutes ago

According to Marshall, ‘Users are demanding even more from their intranets. However, responding to the challenge is not simply a matter of installing the right tool. Formulating the right strategy and governance is essential, and this means recognising where to be firm and where a lighter touch is needed.’

Marshall’s 10 ways to make sure an intranet fails are:-

1. Promoting silence. A desire to control what is said can lead to an intranet that is too locked-down. It becomes seen as a corporate mouthpiece rather than a place where people can share views and feed back to the company.

2. Making it all talk. The communications department is often seen as the ‘owner’ of an intranet. However, a site that has nothing but news is unlikely to attract much usage, and therefore ceases to be viable even as a communication channel.

and 8 more...

Source: www.melcrum.com Posted by support 620 days, 18 hours, 3 minutes ago

Much has been said and written about the importance of key figures – also in relation to intranets. Intranet managers are expected to constantly produce and provide ”relevant and up-to-date key figures” to management in order to document their every activity and essentially justify their existence.

Moreover, many intranets are being used to publish key figures and information, allowing employees to follow important developments, such as monthly results and sales- and customer- figures This can resul...

Source: www.jboye.com Posted by bee 621 days, 14 hours, 47 minutes ago

In last week’s article, Content Strategy: 7 Practical Tips for Getting Stakeholder Buy In, we talked about how to get stakeholders to buy-in to your new content strategy. A critical step in implementing a content strategy is achieving this consensus. The next challenge is making sure that all of your stakeholders understand and keep up-to-date with your content strategy.

Again, content strategy is a plan on how to create, deliver and maintain your content. It’s possible you have different professionals in various roles handling the different stages of the content lifecycle. Communicating the essentials, as well as the details, will be the fundamental cornerstone for the success of the overall strategy.

Source: www.cmswire.com Posted by bee 622 days, 18 hours, 34 minutes ago

Riveting article on Bloomberg / Businessweek about how leaders really don’t want employees to innovate. Rather: “Businesses need most of their workers to carry out their primary duties with enthusiasm and consistency,” writes Pat Lencioni”

As to how organizations should lead and execute, the article opines in two seperate areas:

“What should leaders do? Be more open to new ideas from employees? Probably not. Better yet, they should stop overhyping innovation to the masses and come to the realization that only a limited number of people in any company really needs to be innovative

As heretical as that may seem to those who want to believe that "innovation is everyone’s business," consider that even the most innovative and creative organizations need far more people to be dutiful, enthusiastic, and consistent in their work than innovative or creative.

If you’ve read this blog before, you’ll know that I’m all for respecting the realities of how organizations operate today and...

Source: www.pretzellogic.org Posted by bee 629 days, 16 hours, 57 minutes ago

I’ve been working on one truly inspirational and breathtaking charity web based project for over eight months now. It is just mind boggling and humbling to log on every day or so and see what the boys and girls have achieved. No-one can say that web technology hasn’t taken massive leaps forward over the last few years and changed our horizons and expectations of how we find information and interact massively. Except, that is, if they look at one specific area. Intranets.

Almost without exception they look exactly the same as they did five years ago. While the wide-scale adoption of social networking and the early stages of true Web-based rich media applications are part of our daily out-of-office lives we haven’t seemed to connect our intranets, our most powerful internal communications tool, to the benefits and opportunities they provide. Sure, they may have added a few tweaks and funky functions but actually and fundamentally not much has changed.

Source: www.cloudburstinnovation.com Posted by bee 636 days, 1 hour, 26 minutes ago