by Craig Roth | February 17, 2012 | Submit a Comment
With all due respect to William Ury and his negotiating strategy book “Getting to Yes,” the difficulty faced by owners of governance projects in organizations not used to governance is how to get to the point that saying “no” is feasible and actually works. After all, you don’t need to do anything with governance if [...]
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by Craig Roth | January 26, 2012 | 1 Comment
In my posting How a Collaboration Technology Gets Adopted I described a storyline of how a collaboration technology goes from purchasing through adoption (and beyond to value). That technology could be social networking, SharePoint, an intranet, or a portal – I’ve seen the same pattern with all of them. There are 3 paths for what [...]
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by Craig Roth | September 19, 2011 | 1 Comment
In my Catalyst presentation on the Future of Intranets, I concluded with some thoughts on how I expect intranets to look differently in the future (3-5 years out). I’ll be talking about them more at PCC London this week. For those without a ticket to London or a time machine (if you missed Catalyst), here [...]
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by Craig Roth | March 14, 2011 | Comments Off
Around 1990, an end user computing tool began making the rounds at the financial services firm where I worked. It did quick database and forms work, and a typical set of pros and cons emerged as central IT struggled with embracing it as a way to empower the business units (alternately worded as “get them [...]
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by Craig Roth | August 4, 2010 | Comments Off
IBM announced Project Northstar at their 2010 Exceptional Web Experience conference this week. I blogged on the details and my first impressions previously (see here), but wanted to save a side thought about the potential for assisting with information overload for a separate entry. IBM defined their vision in a good diagram with 3 main [...]
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by Craig Roth | July 22, 2010 | Comments Off
I saw an interesting demonstration this week of how WebSphere Portal v7 can be hosted in a cloud using the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). Currently, there are a few specialized portal-as-a-service providers (like Covisnt) and many ASPs will host a portal for you, but being able to take your own WebSphere Portal servers and [...]
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by Craig Roth | July 21, 2010 | Comments Off
What’s the difference between the real universe and the IT universe? In the real universe, the grand unification theory is unknown, but an eternal truth. In the IT universe the grand unification theory is known with certainty, but changes every 10 years. IBM announced its new grand unification vision (dubbed “Northstar”) at its Portal Excellence [...]
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by Craig Roth | July 20, 2010 | Comments Off
Yesterday, IBM announced WebSphere Portal 7.0 and Lotus Web Content Management 7.0 will be ready to ship on September 1, 2010 (normally I’d link to a press release, but strangely I can’t find one). Some highlights pointed out were accommodation of other portlet models (widgets), out of the box social software (blogs, wikis inherited from [...]
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by Craig Roth | June 30, 2010 | Comments Off
In my presentations on SharePoint governance I often describe the need to define a decision making framework, guided by fundamental principles, that then launches committees to meet on an ongoing basis to flesh them out. For example, it doesn’t include site design standards. Instead, it describes why site design standards are important, who will be [...]
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by Craig Roth | June 14, 2010 | 1 Comment
“Spectacularly inefficient process yields spectacularly large productivity improvement after implementing our product”. You may never have seen that headline verbatim, but in my research of portal ROI, that is the hidden headline to half the case studies I’ve seen published by vendors. You’ve seen it many times: the new productivity tool that says it improved [...]
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