Intranets in turbulent times

I just arrived in Aarhus for the JBoye conference where I am keynoting the intranet track. My official title for the keynote is "Getting to essential - still a long path". I've given it a subtitle: "Intranets in turbulent times".

With many organisations undergoing restructuring, changes in intranet sponsors, reduced budgets and resources, it will be necessary to find new ways to focus on making sure the intranet delivers what users really need.

We will need to move to a new way of working: focusing on what we can do with what we have, always keeping user needs foremost. Just the essential, just good enough, and as fast as possible.

This may all turn out to have a positive impact on intranets: lean and mean, rather than over-flowing and bogged down.