{"id":850,"date":"2009-06-09T21:57:47","date_gmt":"2009-06-10T01:57:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.krisrzepkowski.com\/blog\/?p=850"},"modified":"2009-06-09T21:57:47","modified_gmt":"2009-06-10T01:57:47","slug":"hows-your-staffing-firm-intranet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.krisrzepkowski.com\/blog\/work\/hows-your-staffing-firm-intranet.html","title":{"rendered":"How’s YOUR Staffing Firm Intranet?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, friends I’m nearing the end of the longest web project of my career. When we embarked on creating a new intranet for Hudson North America over two and a half years ago, I would have never predicted that it would take this long. Sure, we wanted to do it right. We engaged an ethnographic researcher<\/a> to help us uncover the real needs behind<\/em> the needs of our users. We took those requirements and handed them to a “real” interactive agency<\/a> to get wireframes for workflows that would address the issues head on. From there, we chose a platform – Sharepoint 2007, no slouch of a platfom to configure, test, customize, and test again. We designed and branded the look and feel twice as the launch pushed through multiple leadership teams and re-branding efforts. It culminates this week with a “Beta” launch of the system via a link from our old intranet, an email from our President and a splashy Camtasia demo I’ve locked myself in my office creating for 4 days.<\/p>\n

I’m excited about the prospects of what a “real” intranet can mean for our firm. It can be such a challenge for leaders to wrangle together a cohesive vision from far-flung offices and disparate work processes. Email just isn’t up to the task, and forget about the dreaded weekly conference calls. To create a truly productive and cohesive professional services firm for the long term, I believe your intranet must be robust, comprehensive, and adaptable to the constant change in the business. How else can you retain knowledge in a business with 40% employee turnover? Yet, when you search online for any evidence of staffing firm intranets, there is little to no information. I found a synopsis of Australian Job Board Seek’s Intranet redesign<\/a>, but I have yet to come across a true staffing service provider’s (If you happen to see any coverage, please do forward me the link).<\/p>\n

Is the lack of information an indicator of the staffing industry’s sentiment toward their intranets? Or, is it that everyone believes they have some super-secret formula for success that they are just unwilling to share? I would wager that staffing firms are currently focused on survival rather than productivity, but there are those who will use their intranet to position themselves for long-term success.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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