What Every Intranet Team Should Know [Kindle Edition]

James Robertson (Author)

Book Description

This is the definitive 'quick start' guide to intranets, providing intranet teams with a to-the-point overview of how to plan, design, manage and grow intranets. Key topics are covered for all intranet teams, including the evolution of intranets, how to find out what staff need, the role of the intranet team, and much more.

Few teams have time to read a weighty tome on intranets, and what is needed is a clear 'map' for delivering a successful intranet. Drawing on experience from intranet teams across the globe, every page of this book provides key insights, ideas, models and methodologies.

Use this book to kick-start your intranet to the next level, and provide your team with a foundation for daily work.

A perfect companion to "Designing intranets: creating sites that work".

Product Details

• File Size: 1226 KB
• Print Length: 106 pages
• Simultaneous Device Usage: Unlimited
• Publisher: Step Two Designs (January 1, 2009)
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
• Language: English
• ASIN: B008EFG5C0
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• X-Ray: Not Enabled
• Lending: Enabled
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #312,190 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Highly clueful content. January 20, 2012

By Harry Max

Format:Paperback

If you're new to leading the design, development, and/or management of an Intranet, I strongly suggest you begin by picking up a copy of James Robertson's first book, "What every intranet team should know." It's a solid primer on the topic and will help you orient to the basics and the challenge(s) in front of you.

Sharing further, here is my review of Robertson's more recent book called "Designing Intranets".

Intranets are complicated. And most of the complexity is hidden from view. Organizational, technical, business process, and stakeholder (political) complexity makes Intranet design work hard hard hard. It's only when you try to redesign or re-architect an Intranet does the true nature of this complexity start to become apparent.

Slicing through the confusion of how to develop a winning Intranet strategy and execute it with precision is what Designing Intranets is all about. In James Robertson's characteristic clarity, his book breaks down the elements of creating sites that work into understandable and digestible pieces, and presents them in a logical, top-down fashion.

Take if from somebody who has the battle scars of leading the redesign of DreamWorks Animation's Intranet, this book is your new best friend because it gives you a safe place to begin thinking about what you need to do, and how you need to go about doing it.

I wish I'd had both of these books prior to hiring on at DreamWorks Animation. Both are worth the investment. I recommend them unconditionally.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars A breakthrough on intranets October 18, 2011

By Jane McConnell

Format:Paperback

I'm an intranet strategy consultant and have a client (global company, UK headquartered, 20,00 employees) whose top executive manager read this book on a plane trip.
He came back to the workshop I facilitated a month later totally convinced of the value of intranets.
Although this book was written for intranet teams, it seems to serve a general purpose of communicating intranet value to management.

5.0 out of 5 stars James you've done it again! January 17, 2013

By Andrew

Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase

James Roberston makes a bold claim in the title of his book. The good news it is all true. I've been working as 'web professional' since the late 90's and this is probably the best resource around for intranet managers. I've used the strategy at the core of the book and it works.

More About the Author

James Robertson is recognized as one of the world's foremost experts on intranets. Author of "Designing intranets: creating sites that work" and "What every intranet team should know", James has worked for more than a decade in this space. As the founder of Step Two Designs, he has worked with high profile organizations throughout the globe, and is a sought-after keynote speaker. In addition to his books, James has written hundreds of articles which can be obtained for free from the Step Two Designs website (www.steptwo.com.au). Based in Sydney, Australia, James is a frequent international traveller.