I'm currently immersed in the 2009 Intranet Innovation Awards report. It's a massive piece of work (hence zero action on this blog of late) and having spent a lot of time looking at this year's entries my mind is racing with opportunities. Above all, the thing that has me thinking the most is the future of the intranet.
Once again, the Innovation Awards show there's some inspiring intranet work being done across the world. While I can't say much more just yet, I'm interested to know what people think could be the future for intranets.
Is it more of the same: internal websites and databases, and now overlaid with social tools. Or something different? Where are we heading?
I have my own views and I'm writing them up at the moment. They've been greatly informed and developed in the past few weeks and months. The one clue I'll give is that I'm deeply inclined to think it's about people. People, people, people. 100%. Not just people in the Web 2.0 sense of 'better communication, conversation, collaboration wah wah wah....' but, literally, about the fact that everything your organisation's intranet does and the way it thinks, behaves and interacts should begin with the people who are doing what your organisation does.
What do you think?
