Extracting maximum value from your intranet

Managing information services - including intranets - is challenging, frustrating, but ultimately highly rewarding. With delivery dependent on a of myriad factors that often fall outside the intranet managers' control, good governance is essential for success.

This two-day conference gave valuable insight into current thinking and practice from leading industry professionals in managing intranets. In particular the following issues were discussed:

Demonstrating strategic value of your intranet
Assessing your business needs and choosing the most appropriate
publishing model – centralised, decentralised or hybrid
Justify your costs and gain senior management buy-in
Designing the right IT platforms
Using unstructured information as a business facilitator
Social media tools like blogs and wikis to instant messaging
Best practices for creating a recession-proof model for your intranet
Sharepoint as a CMS for the intranet

In my presentation, I talked about creating a communication culture by engaging staff through a devolved intranet. I also covered topics such as:

Is your intranet facilitating good sharing, collaboration and communication?
Assessing the usefulness of diverse modes of communication that captivate and involve your internal audience
Maximising the effectiveness in communication by integrating your intranet with other knowledge sharing tools

View my presentation (pdf; 39 KB; 12 pages)

View conference brochure (pdf; 491 KB; 4 pages)