Everything is just great! Your corporate intranet is in excellent shape!

You know you have a superlative intranet when you can say that your intranet has…

• Great senior management support – your executives ‘get it’, use it, and are active champions
• Great cooperation – key stakeholders including HR, IT, and communications all understand each other and get along (hugs are optional)
• Great funding and resources – you have more than enough money and staff
• Great governance – well defined roles, responsibilities, and policies
• Great content – everything is well written for the web, updated and relevant
• Great content management – the CMS editor really is WYSIWYG! And everyone loves the workflow!
• Great HR section – you can actually get the information you need, and don’t have to download, print and fax a bunch of PDF or Word files
• Great usability – all links work, all labels are intuitive, and you are never confused
• Great personalization – not only does your intranet offer dozens of portlets to subscribe to (including those with personalized information), but the personalization is enabled and used by most employees!
• Great search – those search results are amazing! Google has nothing on us…
• Great design – no dog’s breakfast here! A smart mix of colors, images & design elements
• Great layout – employees aren’t inundated with too many links, banner promotions and irrelevant announcements (no one is screams #@*! when they visit the home page)
• Great executive communications – our executives blog, webcast and participate in discussion forums – and they’re informative & funny (but tactful)!!
• Great, measured success – you’ve quantified and demonstrated ROI, high user satisfaction, and high traffic

Wow! That is an enormously successful intranet!

Haha – April Fools!

Yup, it is too good to be true. In fact, show me an intranet that can prove they deliver only 5 of the above 15 criteria for a great intranet, and I’ll pay you $500 (large, global technology companies with names like IBM, Cisco and HP are not included – you guys are freaks… as in freakishly good, and extraordinary exceptions to the norm).

No seriously, send me a short case study or document detailing how your organization meets 5 of those 15 criteria and I’ll mail you $500 cash (I’m tempted to offer $50,000 because I know there are virtually no organizations that would qualify… but that would only promote scam artists!).

In the meantime, enjoy your dreams of great – and happy April Fools!

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