“At some point every few years (or every year in some cases) organisations decide that the most effective way to improve productivity or profits is to reduce expenditures.

Intranets are a common target of cost cutting, either by delaying improvements to infrastructure, cancelling new functionality, reducing author training or cutting intranet staff numbers.

In some cases these decisions are justified, however with intranets often lacking high-level representation and sponsorship, there are cases where these cuts have serious negative impacts on the entire organisation.

So are there ways to position an intranet to avoid damaging cost cuts, and even increase the budget to the area in order to generate savings elsewhere?”

Read more at eGov AU…

Intranet 2.0 strategies do exist. As defined by the 2007 Global Intranet Strategies Survey, an annual worldwide survey of intranets, the companies most likely to have a 2.0 strategy (11%) are Class 1 and the very large organisations with over 50k employees.

Applications are open for the 2008 survey.

Via Globally local - locally global.

There are a number of reasons why a corporation or a not-for-profit should adopt Intranet 2.0 tools. Enhancing communications and collaboration with employees, and improving employee investment and retention are primary considerations. But there’s another more pressing need: snooze or lose.

While the intranet still plays poor cousin to the all-important website, intranet 2.0 cannot play backseat to any organization looking to differentiate itself from the competition.

Read more at IntranetBlog.com…