Intranet Redesign
Toby Ward
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Agenda
• Business case
• Planning
• Design
• Q & A
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About Us
World Leading Intranet Experts
• 12 years of profitable history
• Dozens of Fortune 500 Clients
• World-Renown Thought Leaders; 150+ intranets
Clients
First ever intranet methodology
First to define & study “social intranet”
PrescientDigital.com
• Hundreds of articles
• Dozens of white papers & reports
• Dozens of case studies & videos
• Access to multiple social media channels
The Business Case
More than ROI
• A business case should weave a complete story
– Cost / benefits
– Return on investment
– Opportunities created
Identify the problems / needs
Business Requirements
• 10 interviews = good sample
• Circulate questionnaire before interview
• Know the situation before going in
Analysis
• Write up notes as soon after as possible
• Look for trends & themes
• Approximately 20 questions
– Multiple choice and open text
– Qualitative and quantitative
• Provide survey intro with
– Project overview
– Details on participation incentive if any
Analysis
• Synopsis of each question
• Trends
Employee Survey
17
• By employee type, geographic location, business unit
• 8 people = good session (10+ = too many)
• Ask questions, promote discussion
• Use screen shots from similar industry and company size
if possible
Analysis
• Paragraph format with quotes
• Bar graph for screen shot ratings
– Averaged overall rating graph
Focus Groups
Assessment Scoring © 2002 – 2013 Prescient Digital Media
Research & Assessment
Guessing
Benchmarking
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Look & Feel Usability Layout Content Tools & Innovation Planning &
Resources
Overall Rating
CA 6.5 5 6 7 6 4 5.7
Cisco 8 9 9 10 10 9 9.3
IBM 8 9 8 8 9 9 8.5
Planning
Perspective
• 1/3 of IT projects exceed budgets and schedules by almost
100% in small to mid-size companies (Gartner)
Deliver the plans & design
• Strategic planning
• Governance & policies
• Business case & ROI
• Functional planning
• Information architecture
• Wireframing
• Design
• Content management
• Change management
Planning Stages
Mission Statements
• Our mission is to connect people with the ultimate
places to play.
• To improve organizational effectiveness &
communications by enabling employees to access
timely, relevant info & applications where, when &
how they need it.
Objectives & Goals - Definitions
• Goals
– Qualitative
– Something worked toward, or striven for
– Something toward which effort is directed
• Objectives
– Quantitative
– End result of an endeavor/effort
– SMART
• Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic, Time Defined
Governance
Defines the ownership and management model.
o Management team
o Roles & responsibilities
o Decision making process
o Policies & standards
The champion
• C-level executive
• The champion should have power and influence
• Understands the value of the website & the potential
• Needs to be involved, but not on a day-to-day basis
• Only attend an occasional meeting
Collaborative
Editor-in-Chief
(Director of Communications)
Editorial Committee
(Content Owners)
Communications
Committee
Development
Committee
Finance
Hospital
• Planned Giving
• Annual Fundraising
• Major Giving
• Operations
Hospital
Communications
Technical
• Corporate Depts
Content Authors
• Business Unit Depts
Internet Council
(Internal & External Participation)
Hybrid Centralized
37
Content Workflow
Author/
Contributor
Content
Content
Owner
Intranet
Project
Manager
Approved Yes
No
Post to
CMS
Translation
required?
Publish
live to
intranet
File in
CMS DB
No
Yes
Translation
/ GMS
Re-write/
update
required
Verify
translation
Translation
correct
Yes
No
Approved Yes
No
Require
Mngm
Review
No
Senior
Management
Approver
Yes
Approved
Yes/No
Document reaches
expiry threshold
CMS
workflow
sends notice
to content
author/owner
Content
owner/author
reviews
content
Content
Requires
Update
Yes
Content owner/author
saves content with
note in workflow that
no changes to
document made
Information Architecture
Wireframes
Deliver the plans & design
Design
One person approval
Design by Committee
Creative Brief
• Review & incorporate brand guidelines
• Determine color palette
• Determine font types, sizes, headers, etc
• Use of images / icons
• Technical parameters / limitations
Business driven design
Designer ‘free reign’
Design Concepts
• Review creative brief with brand guidelines
• Apply colors, style and images to wireframes
• Review concepts and fine tune
• Get approvals
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Questions?
toby@prescientdigital.com
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