You may’ve noticed a big increase in our blogging about SharePoint in 2012. There’s a very good reason for this.
It’s an exciting but challenging time for intranets. While SharePoint is just one of many intranet solutions in the marketplace, it has gained real momentum, spreading throughout the globe.
This has introduced a whole range of new possibilities for intranets, particularly in the collaboration and business productivity space. It has also injected new energy into intranets, something that has been long overdue.
But let’s face it, SharePoint isn’t a simple platform. Many teams are finding themselves lost in the huge spread of functionality, or baffled about how best to tackle the necessary customisation and development. Too many projects are missing the mark, or reinventing the wheel.
While extraordinary SharePoint intranets have been delivered, there have also been failures. SharePoint implementers have rapidly built up their technical expertise, but technology is just one element of a successful intranet.
For over a decade, our role has been to help teams deliver intranets that work. Intranets that help staff do their jobs, deliver concrete business benefits, and are easy to use. We look across many organisations, and uncover what works (and what doesn’t), and communicate this to the industry as a whole.
Continuing this, our job in the SharePoint intranet space is to cut through complexity, providing answers, examples, models and methodologies. As highlighted in our last post, we provide the 10-15% that doubles the success of SharePoint projects.
We’ve not lost sight of the fact that there are valid alternatives to SharePoint, but neither are we going to stand by and see intranet teams struggle needlessly with their SharePoint projects.
We’re here to help. Watch this space for much more to come.
