Get an inside look at the 10 best intranet designs of 2008 — this 362-page report is the only place to find this information, with 212 full-color screenshots of before and after designs, which are usually protected behind the organization’s firewall.

Comprehensive case studies inform you of the trends and challenges of the year, which you can use to improve your own intranet design.

The winning intranets were chosen by expert review based on design and usability, from a field of hundreds of nominations.

Article with high-level findings: 10 Best Intranets of 2008

Topics

• Tips for incorporating successful design patterns onto your intranet
• 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
• 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
• Alerts
• Working with external design agencies
• Information on the methods and technologies used to achieve the vision within an organization's framework