I’m on day 9 of my new job at J&J, managing the Portal and driving collaboration for global procurement. The vision is great: use the integrated MOSS 07 environment to enable innovation and collaboration, improve business results and build community for this decentralized function. What I’ve been spending most of my time doing is getting a picture of how the organization functions today - how people work, what their tasks, activities and workflows are, and how they might, or might not, move these activities into the new portal environment.
On a more pragmatic level, I’ve jumped on to a moving train with a portal launch scheduled for mid-September - and the current staged site is nowhere near ready. There are some design issues and some functionality problems, and lots of requirements, tasks, fixes, etc. So I’m in that familiar “launch a website” role while trying to build a sense of the bigger picture.
Today I’m focused on defining and documenting content management roles for the site. Tomorrow I think will be guidelines for using blogs and wikis.
What’s fabulous is that everyone has been really helpful, I’ve made great connections in different functions, and will make more when I’m next in New Jersey, and, the best part, is that I have a Whole Week to work, every week! It seems like a luxury of time, and the days are flying by.
I’ll post separately about what specific capabilities go into enabling collaboration online.
