6 Stepping Stones to a Successful Intranet Portal in 2017
6 Stepping Stones to a Successful Intranet Portal in 2017
Your Intranet is your virtual office building, your 21st century
place to connect, communicate and collaborate.
A successful Intranet Portal is not out of reach its just six
simple steps away.
How can you create a Successful Intranet Portal that
dramatically increases communication and collaboration?
It is an increasing important question
"96% of CEOs have determined that poor collaboration and
communication is the primary cause of workplace failure."
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6 Stepping Stones of a Successful IntranetPortal
1. Solve Big Problems3. Make it Mobile5. Centralize
Communication2. Global and Local4. Easy to Use6. Make it Home
Step 1. Your Intranet Portal must solve significant work
problems.
When your Intranet Portal doesnt solve big work problems
adoption issues occur.Watch Video here -- https://goo.gl/pLzVgC1.
Your Intranet must solve big work problems
Work problems
Slightly better, but not worth it
It also needs to solve work problems in significantly better
ways.
A great Intranet massively solves work problems for the
User.Watch Webinar Here -- https://goo.gl/pLzVgC
Work problems
Adoption Efforts vs Work Improvement RatioAdoption EffortsWork
Improvement Ratio1x10x
$$$$$$5xEmail
Fax
Email was a major improvement, solving work problems in much
better ways, so very little adoption effort was needed.
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Step 2. Your Intranet Portal must function on a global, local
and personal level.
Successful Intranets usually have 3 distinct levels and
functions.
2. Make your portal global, local and personalC. Personal
LevelA. Global LevelVision and LeadershipTeamworkOwn Tasks
B. Local Level
Imaginethat an Intranet is like a space station. It should have
astrong central hub (global) surrounded by team sites(local) that
have a sense of autonomy while maintaining connection to the
central hub.
Step 3. Your Intranet Portal must be mobile friendly and
function on every screen.
Your Intranet should work effectively on mobile, tablet and
desktop.
When creating your Intranet be sure to utilize responsive design
functionality so that your portal automatically adjusts for
different tablet and mobile screen sizes. You dont want to have to
re-design your Intranet portal every time Apple or Samsung put out
a phone with a different sized screen.
3. Make it Mobile Friendly
61% of workers report working outside the office at least part
of the time. CITRIX MOBILE ANALYTICS REPORT 2015
Companies gain an extra 240 hours of work per year from
employees due to mobile working. iPASS
Step 4. Your Intranet Portal should be easy to use.
4. Make it easy to find thingsImpossibleSlightly BetterBest
Searching for content shouldnt be like searching for your
socks.
An Intranet Portal can host over 60,000 documents. Making sure
that your Users can quickly and easily find content is vital
component to creating a successful Intranet. At Emgage we like to
say that content should find the User.
Having well-structured navigation with layered complexity and
visual MegaMenus.
Allow your users to personalize their own navigation.
Content Tagging with Search Memory.
Ways to make finding content easier
Step 5. Your Intranet Portal should be the central point for
ongoing communication
5. Your Intranet Portal is your Communication PlatformEmail
overload and email sprawl mean that important messages are often
getting missed.
Effective internal communication need to be measurable.
A well configured Intranet Portal allows you to both measure and
improve your communication.
An average employee spends 13 hours a week reading and
responding to email, making email the most time-consuming work
activity at 28% of an employees work time. THE MCKINSEY GLOBAL
INSTITUTE
How often have you found yourself saying things like, did you
see my email?
We live in a world of email overload and critical messages are
often missed or left unopened resulting is miscommunication and
inefficiency.
Its time to embrace your Intranet, it is more than a work
platform, it's a communication portal.
Step 6. Your Intranet Portal should feel like home to your
users.
Your work environment affects your productivity. Your Intranet
portal is your virtual work environment.
6. Your Intranet Portal should feel like homeIntuitiveChaoticNot
ProductiveProductiveNever want to leaveOrdered
Your employees are your first customers. Treat them well and
they will treat your clients and customers well. Therefore, your
Intranet and how it looks and feels should be just as important to
your organization as your external facing website.
Your Intranet Portal is a living and breathing organism you need
to be able to quickly change it as your business needs and
structure evolves.
Your Intranet doesnt have to look like plain old SharePoint.
When it comes to look and feel, no code design solutions allow
you to make changes quickly and effectively.
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