In response to my post about making SharePoint not look like SharePoint, Mike asked where the figure I quoted came from. He said:

"I would also like to see you cite your source for the statistic you quoted. The problem with statistics is that anyone can toss them out but unless you fully understand the context they are meaningless. Just because a company does spend extra on SharePoint customizations doesn’t mean that it was needed in order to make the solution work. Many companies find value in small things (such as branding) that others may think was a waste of money. This should not reflect negatively on the tool or be used to scare people away from implementing it."

My Comments

1. Honestly, I didn't know it where it came from - I had read it last year, seen it in a couple of reports, but never followed up on it. Here's what I found.

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Source: currents.michaelsampson.net Posted by BasZurburg 441 days, 18 hours, 18 minutes ago

How do other organisations run their intranet? What do they look like? This compilation of Intranet Case Studies hopefully helps in giving some basic answer to these questions.

If you are aware of any other relevant intranet case studies please let me know and I’ll add them here. Please also get in contact if you would like to have a case study done about your intranet.

Source: intranet-matters.de Posted by bee 776 days, 1 hour, 12 minutes ago

Your boss knows that collaboration is essential to the business, but he dreads hearing from you.

That might be one conclusion from an industry-sponsored study on C-level executive attitudes toward collaboration in the enterprise. The study was sponsored by Seattle-based Avanade, a joint venture between Accenture and Microsoft. Avanade provides consulting, software development and system integration services with a focus on business intelligence, portals, enterprise content management and infrastructure architecture.

Source: rcpmag.com Posted by support 716 days, 16 hours, 10 minutes ago