What does the best practices code for Intranets include?
Intranet creation and development should follow a best practices code, both for protection of the client and the company. Intranets should include the following as part of the intranet good practice code:
Software modules or applications which include:
- Company and industry news
- Integrating internal and external information sources
- Editorial control of the intranet homepage
- Keeping the intranet up-to-date
- Supporting factory-floor employees
- Onboarding of new employees
- Consistent navigation
- Multilingual intranets; supporting international employees
- Multimedia and video on intranets
- Data visualization
- Community
- Collaboration tools and discussion boards
- Employee self service
- Special intranet tools and areas for high-level executives
- Internal weblogs
- Intranet search
- Development process for intranet redesigns
- Creating a unified intranet after a merger of two or more organizations
- Staffing of intranet teams; where they report in the organization
- Updating and maintaining standards and guidelines for intranet design
- Intranet branding
- Promoting new intranet features
- Polls
- Stock quotes
- Staff directory and employee profile pages
- Corporate calendars
- Personalization
- Working with external design agencies;
- Coordinating multiple agencies