{"id":608,"date":"2017-06-07T14:13:03","date_gmt":"2017-06-07T14:13:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/sigmify\/resources\/\/?p=608"},"modified":"2021-10-12T11:33:46","modified_gmt":"2021-10-12T11:33:46","slug":"re-imagining-the-intranet-part-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigmify.com\/resources\/re-imagining-the-intranet-part-i\/","title":{"rendered":"Re-imagining the Intranet – Part I"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The curious case of the missing Collaboration piece<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

\"\"Kolah Borate, manager in an IT company, is really excited about the changes that have been rolled out to revamp the company\u2019s Intranet. Using a browser based single Sign on, Kolah, like all other employees of the company, is able to access a suite of diverse applications \u2013 HRMS, Payroll, Ticket Management (Help-desk), e-Learning, Knowledge Management, Pre-Sales Platform and Performance and Assessment Portal.<\/p>\n

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\"\"The new Intranet is great, but she, like others, has noticed that the jig saw puzzle isn\u2019t complete.\u00a0 The collaboration piece, the biggest of them all, is completely missing. \u00a0She likens the Intranet to a series of Towers, each big and tall, miles from each other, with no interaction between them, incompatibility issues\u00a0and lacking the capability to enable users to collaborate around functional processes or transactions.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Whilst it is natural for these applications to focus on a specific domain and remain disconnected from each other for business\/security reasons, the lack of collaborative capabilities is troubling and that too in an IT company.<\/p>\n

Most companies have done a good job of building intranets filled with easily accessible applications. \u00a0 Chief Information Officers & \u00a0Leaders have rightly envisioned Intranets as being critical to the success of the organization, growing and disseminating information across the company.<\/p>\n

Users are using the Intranet like never before, but\u00a0 the usage is restricted to application specific transactions.\u00a0 Buzzwords like \u201cEnterprise Collaboration\u201d, \u201cStakeholder Involvement\u201d, \u201cContinuous Improvement\u201d\u00a0 have remained in the realms of \u00a0\u201cHype-Space<\/strong><\/em>\u201d. Minimal progress has been made in improving operational agility and significantly enhancing business performance outcomes<\/p>\n

Another One Bites the Dust<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

\"\"Most companies consider Knowledge Management (KM) to be at the center of their intranets. \u00a0Unfortunately, a big casualty has been this very system.\u00a0 On its own, without any real or meaningful connections, information just trickles into it. \u00a0A quick scan reveals that most of the information is out of date.<\/p>\n

Time and again, employees like Kolah have bravely ventured into the KM application only to be rebuffed with incomplete or irrelevant information. Classic examples of this are certain HR and Admin forms for which the latest versions are only with the respective departments or within the applications that these departments use. “Keep Out” is the norm, not the exception.<\/p>\n

The mysterious creation of Black Holes<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

She rues that the Ticket Management system, with its ever-growing information in the form of ticket updates and attachments, is like a black hole.\u00a0 Information once entered just disappears. \u00a0\u00a0The Ticket Management system isn\u2019t the only black hole, there\u2019s a whole cluster of them. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0To add to the missing collaboration piece, the KM system on life support, black holes, that are supposed to exist in the deepest recesses of space, are popping up all over the place.<\/p>\n

Meetings and more meetings<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

Kolah does what most people do well and organizes a series of meetings to discuss this problem.<\/p>\n

Numerous internal brainstorming sessions throw up a number of wild and interesting ideas,\u00a0best described by the vivid imagery below.<\/p>\n

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All these ideas\u00a0resonate with\u00a0those echoing from the wide\u00a0spectrum of the business and IT world.<\/p>\n

\u00a0So, is it all doom and gloom ?. Will the KM system come back from the dead ? Will the missing collaboration piece be discovered ? Can the Intranet be re-imagined? \u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n

We\u2019ll collectively re-imagine all this and more in the days to come. \u00a0Till then, a few links related to this exciting topic.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/axerosolutions.com\/blogs\/timeisenhauer\/pulse\/286\/13-hot-intranet-trends-for-2017\/<\/a><\/p>\n

http:\/\/digitalworkplacegroup.com\/2016\/12\/01\/my-10-digital-workplace-predictions-for-2017\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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