Rapid deployment of an intranet. Presentation by Valo during the DWG Technology Lab of June 17, 2020. Brought to you by the DWG Technology & Research Institute,

1. SharePoint
Office 365
Microsoft Teams
Rapid deployment of
a custom look and
feel intranet
Vlad Catrinescu

2. The Intranet – Front door to your digital
workplace
+ For many years, different types of tools were positioned as “Intranet
Killers”
+ Enterprise Social Networks (Yammer, Facebook Workplace,etc)
+ Chat based tools (Teams, Slack, etc)
+ The Intranet is a key part of the communication strategy of each
company
+ This year's unfortunate events highlight the need of an authoritative
communication tool such as the intranet

3. When it’s time to update your Intranet…
+ Everyone who has worked on an
Intranet project knows it’s not an
easy project
+ “This time we will do it faster than
before”

4. https://www.nngroup.com/articles/intranet-design-2019/
From 2001 to 2007, winning teams required an average of 3.3 years to create their intranets; from
2008 to 2013, the average creation time was 3.6 years. Beginning in 2014, however, the average
time dropped to 1.4 years — an average time that has held ever since.

6. https://www.nngroup.com/articles/intranet-design-2019/
From 2001 to 2007, winning teams required an average of 3.3 years to create their intranets; from
2008 to 2013, the average creation time was 3.6 years. Beginning in 2014, however, the average
time dropped to 1.4 years — an average time that has held ever since.

7. Should we spend 1.2 years
building an Intranet?

8. Is an Intranet ever
finished?

9. How can we deploy an
intranet faster?

10. Don’t start from scratch
+ Every Intranet is unique, yet every
intranet is 80% the same
+ Why build something 100% custom
from nothing?
+ There are many pre-built solutions out
there that can give you 80% of what
you need
+ And often another 10% with only
configurations not customizations

11. In the Microsoft World
+ Over 33 Intranet in a Box products
available on top of SharePoint Online
+ From basic starting templates to full
Intranet solutions
+ https://www.clearbox.co.uk/sharepoint-
intranets-in-a-box-report/

12. An Agile Intranet
+ You do not need 100% of features in
Phase 1
+ Start with the easy wins
+ Custom integrations can get there later
+ Your Intranet will keep evolving over
time and adapt to
+ New technology innovations
+ Your user’s needs

13. Find your Champions
+ Find people who are motivated by technology
and want to help build a better workplace
+ They will be your greatest idea generators

14. Thank you!