nForm's research project presentation on Canadian intranet practices. View initial findings from nForm's Better Intranets Conference. June 12, 2014.

1. Canadian Intranet
Practices Survey
Sarah Vilay
June 12, 2014
#BetterIntranets

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Goals of our study
• Understand how organizations use and manage intranets
• Learn about organizational struggles and how they were
overcome
• Explore what works for organizations

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Today’s topics
• Platform of choice
• Intranet budgets
• Maturity cycles
• Primary purpose
• Content ranked most popular

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About the participants
• Canadian industries including:
• Consulting
• Education
• Financial Services
• Healthcare
• Insurance
• Media
• Public Sector
• Retail
• Telecommunications
• Utilities

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About the participants
• Intranet Managers
• Internal Communicators
• I.T. Managers responsible for collaboration
• I.T. Managers responsible for content management
• Intranet content owners
• Current total: 171 responses

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About the participants
1%
38% 7%
46%
5%
Unknown 3%

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initial findings

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Western region
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
Sharepoint
IBM Lotus
Oracle
Custom

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Central region
0%
5%
10%
15%
20%
25%
30%
35%
40%
45%
50%
Sharepoint
IBM Lotus
Oracle
Custom

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Is there a dedicated budget assigned to
your Intranet?
Yes
58%
No
42%

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Maturity
• Looked at:
• Years since last redesign
• Accessibility via mobile
• How much overall traffic from mobile
• Less than 30% of mature Intranets have dedicated budget

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Last significant redesign
Currently in Progress
27%
In the Past Year
35%
1-3 Years ago
28%
4-5 Years
ago
6%
5+ Years ago
4%

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Other technology integration
None, 17%
Dropbox, 11%
Yammer, 2%
Email, 18% Combinations with
email, 13%
Combinations with
Dropbox, 8%
Combinations with
Yammer, 7%
Combinations with
IM, 9%
Combinations with
Other Applications,
15%
Other, 51%

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User-generated content tools
ranked most popular
• Blogs/Microblogging
• Classified Ads
• Discussion Forum
• Employee Profiles
• Content Ratings

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Primary purpose(s)*
* respondents could choose combinations
Promote Employee
Engagement, 58%
Serve as a Corporate
Knowledge Repository,
55%
Enable Employee
Collaboration, 53%
Build Corporate Culture,
52%
Support Executive
Communications, 38%
Improve Customer
Service, 37%
To Save Money, 18%

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Content ranked most popular
1. Administrative Information
2. Human Resources Information
3. Business Function Information
4. Information about Current Events in the Company
5. Financial Information

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Content ranked most popular
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Administrative Information
Human Resources
Information
Business Function
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Information about Current
Events in the Company
Financial Information

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Content ranked most popular
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Administrative Information
Human Resources
Information
Business Function
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Information about Current
Events in the Company

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Summary of initial findings
• Western region highly favours SharePoint
• About 60% of organizations have dedicated intranet budgets,
however, mature intranets are less likely to have assigned budgets
• Modern intranets are integrating more external secure solutions to
offer complimentary features
• Intranets are primarily used to promote corporate culture
• Important to include administrative, business function and human
resources information

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Sarah.Vilay@nform.com @sarahvilay