Shannon Ryan, President of non~linear creations, spoke on the many ways people collaborated in today’s world. Collaboration curves and enterprise connections are featured.

1. 5 Realities of the Modern Intranet

2. Introductions 2

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9. NLC’s areas of focus … 5 Solutions Groups DIGITAL STRATEGY CUSTOMER & EMPLOYEE SOLUTIONS CUSTOMER & EMPLOYEE SOLTIONS DIGITAL MARKETING & ANALYTICS BUSINESS PERFORMANCE EMAIL MARKETING CONTENT MANAGEMENT READINESS ASSESSMENTS SEARCH SEARCH ENGINE MARKETING COLLABORATION INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE AND UX/WIREFRAMES WEB ANALYTICS & INTEGRATION SOCIAL MEDIA VISUAL DESIGN CUSTOM APPLICATIONS & BUILDS APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT & INTEGRATION TORONTO | OTTAWA | CALGARY | REGINA | NEW YORK

10. Our thought leadership NLC thoughts… Speaking engagements … Sitecore Best Practices: A Strategy Guide Proven Approaches for Success with the Google Search Appliance SEO and CMS: Implementing Best Practices Planning for Success: Best Practices in CMS Governance The NLC Performance Framework: A pragmatic guide to planning online business initiatives What’s New in Social Networking? at the SMX conference in New York, 2008, 2009 Enterprise 2.0: Behind the Firewall for the Toronto Board of Trade, 2008 Best Practices in Enterprise Search at Gilbane CMS San Francisco , 2007, 2008, 2009 Leveraging Social Networks at the SMX Social Marketing Conference LA, 2008 Rich Application Interfaces for Sharepoint at the Sharepoint Summit Montreal 2008 Best Practices in Microsoft Search at ECM Days in Ottawa 2008 Best Practices in Social Computing at Gilbane CMS San Francisco 2008, 2009 6 TORONTO | OTTAWA | CALGARY | REGINA | NEW YORK

11. 5 Realities of the Modern Intranet

13. The Collaboration Curve 9 TORONTO | OTTAWA | CALGARY | REGINA | NEW YORK

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15. What’s the point Ryan? 11 The more players participate and interact with WoW's knowledge economy, the more valuable its resources become, and the faster players increase their rate of performance improvement. Said more generally, the more participants--and interactions between those participants--you add to a designed and nurtured environment, the more the rate of performance improvement goes up. See: http://blogs.hbr.org/bigshift/2009/04/introducing-the-collaboration.html TORONTO | OTTAWA | CALGARY | REGINA | NEW YORK

16. There is a shift happening The internet is going through a seismic shift in the fundamental laws that govern its existence; we are moving from generation 1.0 to generation 2.0 The first generation was all about access and enabling The digitizing and coding of text, images and knowledge to that allowed people to the access to previously inaccessible content. Google’s original business motto is a 1.0 concept: “Organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful," (Business Week, April 2007)

17. In the Web 1.0 world We also fell in love with the idea that having access (mostly to documents, images, and other artifacts) meant we also had access to knowledge. We thought…simply providing access to information was enough But as we all know from our own experiences, just having access to information doesn’t give you knowledge.

18. Web 2.0 Is all about what you can do with the documents, images, artifacts once you have access Generation 2.0 means Sharing Discussing Collaborating High viscosity networking Understanding the “Long Tail” of all things internet Etc.

22. What does this mean to you, and your company?

24. More complex work environments

25. More interaction with un-known people

26. More methods and ways to communicate

27. More information, everyday

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29. Intranet Reality 1 Collaboration is not a “nice to have”, it is a “must have”

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35. Key Take Away 1 Collaboration is important It is not “a project” it is how we work It is not just about the toolset

36. Intranet Reality 2 “productivity of knowledge” is the new game changer for leading companies Explicit vs. tacit knowledge Finding answers/knowledge is the hard part in the middle of content explosion ROI of finding answers 20 minutes faster across your enterprise?

38. The Simple Economics The average information worker spends 8.8 hours per week searching for information At $75,000 per year, that’s over $14,000 per employee * Source: IDC – Hidden Cost of Information Worker Report 2009

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40. Are you wasting time? 31 For a company of a 2000 people the numbers are staggering: 2000 x 5,974 = $11,948,000.00

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42. Key Take Away 2 Understand and exploit the collaboration curve Finding answers/knowledge is the hard part in the middle of content explosion Looking for ``big bang ROI`` from your collaboration project – think about search

43. Intranet Reality 3 There is no such thing as a monopoly on good ideas Collective belief that good ideas can become great ideas when more minds are applied Innovation management – unmanaged, untapped, un-optimized Internal, customers, partners

48. Key Take Away 3 There is no such thing as a monopoly on good ideas Innovation management – unmanaged, untapped, un-optimized … but easy to start Think internal (and ex-internal), then partners and customers.

49. 4 Intranet Reality Connections + Conversations = $

51. Break down the Silos Traditional work has three silos which limit companies' ability to realize the full value of emergent expertise: Information silos Knowledge silos Connection silos 42 TORONTO | OTTAWA | CALGARY | REGINA | NEW YORK

52. The verdict is in 43 TORONTO | OTTAWA | CALGARY | REGINA | NEW YORK Recruiters with diverse social networks and high betweenness centrality generate more revenue than their peers. Betweenness centrality and network diversity also show positive associations with ability to multitask, as do in-degree, out-degree, and network size. Peripheral employees outside the communication flow work on fewer projects per unit time. The total volume of communication is also statistically significant as is network constraint, demonstrating that constrained networks and redundant contacts correspond to less multitasking. An implication of these results for managers is that untangling social networks through strategic job rotation could lead to more efficient multitasking. We also find that richer information flows alone do not necessarily increase the speed with which individuals complete projects. Central information brokers boost their productivity by multitasking more effectively rather than by working faster

55. 4 Key Take Away Connections + Conversations = $ Look for opportunities to foster connections (communities and mysites will help)

56. 5 Intranet Reality content and access need to become one thought, unified and embedded Access to content will be seamless (employee, customer, partners) and identity management lies at the heart

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58. The Intranet Maturity Model A high level roadmap on how NLC assists organizations in gauging and planning for their intranet deployments An explanation of the NLC framework for building and deploying successful intranets An opportunity to snapshot your company’s current place in the maturity model.

59. INTRANETMATURITYMODEL STAGE 5 OPTIMIZED STAGE 4 ENGAGED STAGE 3 DEFINED STAGE 2 MANAGED STAGE 1 INITIAL Consolidated Information Workplace Communication & information sharing intranet Integrated Enterprise information portal Self-serviceintranet Collaborative intranet

61. The NLC deployment approach 1 5 Intranet maturity assessment Infrastructure evaluation Organizational readiness Site heuristic analysis Current state SWOT Benchmarking User acceptance testing Pilot deployment Rollout(s) Support Measure Optimize 2 Program-project plan Vision and Strategy Requirements Governance plan Content mgmt. plan Technology roadmap 4 Infrastructure build-out Platform configuration Site build(s) System integration Integration testing QA testing 3 User/site matrix Information architecture Creative design Technical design Test plan design

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