This document discusses building an intranet as an interactive destination work hub. It recommends having a plan for success including governance alignment, overcoming obstacles, and a phased approach. The presentation covers designing for users with personas, information architecture, and an agile approach. It emphasizes the importance of design, user experience, and partnering with a trusted organization to launch the new intranet.
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3. Agenda
• Introduction
• Plan for Success
• Design & UX – Don’t leave home without it!
• Find a Trusted Partner
• Demo
• Conclusion
16. Phased Approach
Early Fall 2012 Pre-Planning
Document Management
Architectural Stabilization Retention Policy Automation - Including Alerts and Tracking
Mobile Access to the Employee Portal
Governance Alignment Expand Forms Center SearchableDatabase to CSM Phone Recordings
Skills Customer from outside of the network
Change Management Role Based Services ARIS Travel Condition Mobile Access from Personal Devices
Overhaul – Transfer to SharePoint
User subscribed content
Company & Department content Public RecordsLibrary Geospatial analysis
Acronym Request Process
Audience Targeting File Share migration Fileshare to SharePoint migration
“I Care” ProgramGIS Integration
Portal Design Notes migration LotusMorning Media Update
Notes to SharePoint migration
Consistent Branding Document Scanning & Indexing Project Status Roll-Up
Mobile Applications
Replace EPIC and eLine Main PagePolicy Automation
Retention Outage Management
Work Intake Process
Content Management FAST Search SAP Integration
Special Interest Sites
Migrate BTS Site “Downed Wire” Search Change Management Process
Site Provisioning Tool
Migrate Strategy Center“Gas Leak” Search Facilitate Training and Knowledge Transfer
External System Links Systems Documentation
Social Networking
Multi-media
Initiate Forms Center
Internet Accessible
Mobility – iPad, iPhone, Droid, BB
In the beginningQuick WinBuilding a VisionCurrent State AnalysisBuilding the PlanBuilding the teamAttention to Design/UXIterative DevelopmentBuilt to LastAdoption
Founding member of BuckeyeSPUG (COSPUG)Been working with SharePoint since 200515 years of IT experienceLead a team of 45 SharePoint consultantsProfessional Scrum MasterSix Sigma CertifiedSharePoint Saturday Speaker and OrganizerDog Food Conference Planning Committee
Consumers knew it was important to get a quick win since the first phase of iConnect was going to take months to deliver. This gave them an opportunity to accomplish a couple of things within the first 8 weeks of this processGet the executive team involvedShow valueRelease something to the rest of the organization to build credibility and build excitementHave a joint success between Corp Comm, IT and a new partner ICCThis provided Consumers with a great launching point for their achieving their future goalsImportance of a quick win “low hanging fruit”
So What was this quick win?Strategy Center is a microsite this is used to communicate Consumers strategic corporate messages as well as Leadership Blogs and videosThe CEO – John Russell supported this site and actively promoted it to his staff. It was launched at (an all employee meeting) to provide employees with a new way to engage the leadership team, provide transparency in the corporate strategy and share important information
Immediately following the launch of Strategy Center Consumers Energy and ICC began working on CE’s Enterprise RoadmapThis would lay the ground work for defining the long term vision of not only iConnect (The employee portal) but for SharePoint as an Enterprise Platform as well as ensuring that they had a plan to scale their infrastructure, governance and policies to support this evolving platform
The CIO’s vision was to have an employee portal that could support her IT vision ofAny Content, Anywhere, Any Device
We interview 32 Stakeholders across the entire organizationand then mapped the results over 22 Information Categories
Then we mapped the 22 information categories to SharePoint 2010 Enterprise capabilities by workloadAnd prioritized and ranked each requirements by a few factors:Alignment to strategic business objectiveTotal business impactComplexityTime & Cost to implement
Reviewed current custom solutions and Architecture to understand what would need to be addressed and in what phase in order to support the business requirements
All of this research and analysis provided us some keen insights into some of the obstacles we would face in implementing the vision for iConnectExamples of this included:Breaking down silos of informationEncouraging more organization transparencyChanging the way employees communicated and received information (mostly emails and hard copy)Transitioning from one social platform to another (moving from Yammer to NewsGator)Technical hurdles includingNetwork bandwidthMisalignment between the IT and Business regarding certain policies and goveranace guidelines
Employee collaborationConnecting across regions, LOBs, interestsOrganizational transparencyCapturing corporate knowledgeSharing corporate knowledgeIncrease productivityShare securelyAccelerate decision makingIdentify subject matter expertsSocial media connectionsManage unstructured dataKeep content fresh and relevantPredictable information structureSending corporate messagesDisparate workforceDisconnected workforceIncrease user adoptionIncrease senior leadership interactions
Built to Last – Consumers wanted to build an intranet not just to suit today’s needs but an intranet that could evolve as their business evolved. This initial phase was built with a long term goal in mind and with proper governance and design guidelines in place iConnect will continue to scale in features and functionality without loosing its brand message and information architecture.
Identify Key StakeholdersWe formed a Content Committee made up of Key Stakeholders from across the organization and some of their staffThis was headed up by a Business Project Manager aligned to the Corp Communications TeamThis team is responsible for content creation, determining the information architecture, design input, content pouring, training and adoption, providing input for governance guidelines, testing and training
CE needed to know what content they currently had then we determined what content would get: (including links, docs, text, images, videos, etc.)-moved-retired-refreshed
User Personas – New Employee
Information Architecture that allows for a personalized portal that allows for future growthOur CompanyOur CustomersNew & InfoMy TasksCollaborationLearning CenterSAPHelp MeStrategy Center
Wireframes where an important part of the process – this helps feed the final design
To build this highly interactive destination work hub we had to bring in a team of agile ninjas from both sides to deliver to the plan. The teams worked out of both Columbus Ohio and Jackson Michigan. Daily work was tracked on a team sprint board in the Columbus Ohio Development Center while the Jackson Michigan team worked collaboratively in the iConnect War Room – both team communicated often via webex, conference calls, daily standups, lync and onsite visits
Preferences PanelPersonal linksTargeted Alerts
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Founding member of BuckeyeSPUG (COSPUG)Been working with SharePoint since 200515 years of IT experienceLead a team of 45 SharePoint consultantsProfessional Scrum MasterSix Sigma CertifiedSharePoint Saturday Speaker and OrganizerDog Food Conference Planning Committee