thinkIntranet Strategic Intranet Management

After about 10 months with IBF, I finally decided that the time is right to get back into full-time work. I’m really excited about this new stage in my career: Starting August 18th I’ll be leading Portal and collaboration for Johnson & Johnson’s global procurement function. The mandate for this newly-created role is to make collaboration “real” for the globally scattered procurement staff who need to find a better way to connect about sources and suppliers. If I can help make a real change in the way this community connects online, this could be a model to deploy across other parts of the organization. Although getting back to full-time work after nearly 5 years at a part-time pace is a bit daunting, I’m definitely ready for it. I’m also happy to get back into the familiar feeling of a big global, with all the Intranet challenges that brings. Although I’m sure I’ll find J&J is a very different place than IBM, it’s also a company with a great brand and reputation. I’ll be blogging about my efforts to deliver “real collaboration” here, in a serious effort to document our progress.