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by Stuart Corner   
Sunday, 10 February 2008
The Intranet Benchmarking Forum, an exclusive club of the intranet managers of top global companies, will kick off its Asia Pacific branch at a meeting in Sydney on 11 March.
The IBF (www.ibforum.com ) claims to be the world's foremost intranet and portal benchmarking group and to have established industry standards for intranet and portal performance. Members include the BBC, BT, HM Revenue and Customs, Nokia, Unilever, PricewaterhouseCoopers and Kellogg's. It was formed in 2002 as an offshoot of The Empowerment Group a niche consultancy specialising in intranet best practice and organisational communication.

The forum was created, TEG says, "because those running intranets felt isolated in their roles and faced daunting strategic and day-to-day management challenges. They wanted to be part of a community where they could gauge the effectiveness of their intranets, learn from best practice and swap ideas."

But instead of simply setting up a forum for informal discussion, the TEG says it "developed an intranet audit methodology that could be applied to each member's site [which] meant discussions were based on clear standards and hard facts."

These intranet managers are also increasingly facing the challenges of embracing enterprise 2.0 - the application of Web 2.0 tools such as blogs, wikis, social networks, virtual worlds, and social search within their organisations. And According to Ross Dawson, Australian enterprise 2.0 specialist and chairman of global strategy firm Future Exploration Network, Australian companies are behind their peers in the US and Europe in implementing Enterprise 2.0. (Dawson is organisation an Enterprise 2.0 conference in Sydney on 19 February)

Services provided to member organisations of the IBF include independent benchmarking of their intranets and frequent opportunities for interaction with their peers in member-only meetings and intranet 'tours'. The forum also claims to provide members with a programme of exclusive, high-quality research into best practice in intranet management.

 
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