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Insights on intranet strategy, internal communication, and open source technology.

Intranet requirements gathering: how to run interviews and workshops

Plan stakeholder interviews, surveys, and workshops for your intranet. Turn employee needs into a prioritized backlog with testable criteria.

Build vs buy vs Open Source: choosing your intranet platform

Compare custom builds, commercial products, and Open Source intranets on five-year costs, integrations, security, and exit options to choose your platform.

Intranet requirements prioritization: MoSCoW without endless debate

Use MoSCoW to prioritize intranet requirements, define a realistic MVP, resolve stakeholder disagreements, and control scope changes before they delay launch.

Intranet content governance: A lifecycle model that prevents content decay

Keep intranet pages accurate after launch with ownership, risk-based reviews, archive rules, and Drupal reminders.

Intranet content migration without losing your mind (or your content)

Plan an intranet content migration with audits, AI-assisted review, ownership decisions, taxonomy mapping, test transfers, and employee-focused validation.

Intranet continuous improvement: growing with your employees and your business

Use intranet analytics, employee feedback, and business plans to prioritize updates, keep content current, and build a roadmap that grows with the business.

Intranet adoption: A change management plan that drives use

Build an intranet adoption plan with practical communications, task-based training, employee champions, launch options, and clear measures of ongoing use.

Intranet project checklist: from business case to launch

Use this intranet project checklist to validate Open Intranet, plan configuration and migration, approve launch, and assign ongoing ownership and support.

Intranet TCO: SaaS vs open source and the costs buyers underestimate

See why SaaS intranet costs can run 30 to 40 percent over budget, and how an open source intranet keeps total cost of ownership predictable over ten years.