For Information & Knowledge Management Professionals (Length: 11 pages)

February 24, 2009

The Critical Role Of A SharePoint Information Architecture

It's A Blank Slate And A Chance To Get It Right This Time

by Leslie Owens, Rob Koplowitz

with Matthew Brown, Norman Nicolson


Executive Summary (This is a document excerpt)

SharePoint buyers expect intuitive navigation, contextual search, and easy administration out of the box. But such benefits depend on how content is structured, labeled, and categorized, and they require a nuanced understanding of how different audiences will navigate and search for information. The information architecture (IA) behind a SharePoint deployment has lasting consequences for the end user experience and for Web site management. Information and knowledge management (I&KM) professionals should use their SharePoint implementations as an opportunity to set solid information architecture in place that turns today's information overload into tomorrow's valuable information assets. The upshot? Information workers will finally be able to find the critical information they need to do their jobs.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

NOTES & RESOURCES

itemWhat Worked On A Legacy Intranet Might Not Translate To SharePoint

itemSharePoint IA Decisions Affect Key Capabilities, Not Just Content Findability

itemAdd Time For Information Architecture Tasks To Your Project Plan

itemSurprise: A Rigorous Taxonomy Enables Flexible Information Access

itemRigorous IA Is The Silver Bullet For Business Content

recommendations

itemMake The Most Of An Information Architecture Blank Slate

WHAT IT MEANS

itemA New Type Of Database Is On The Horizon, Where The "Data" Is Content

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Analyst: Leslie Owens, Rob Koplowitz
Technology: Content-Centric Applications, Enterprise Architecture, Enterprise Architecture Domains, Enterprise Portals & Search, Information & Knowledge Management
Geography: Asia Pacific, Europe, North America

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