It's an oldie but still a goodie, Gerry McGovern discusses who should own the intranet.
The natural home of the intranet is in communications. However, intranet management requires particular skills that many traditional communications departments don’t have.
According to McGovern, the intranet should be in Communications and it needs someone like this to coordinate it:
If the intranet is mission critical, then content is mission critical. But we need a new type of manager; an expert in content, who is comfortable with technology, and who has a gut instinct for what staff need.
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