A couple of nights ago I was up at 2am to listen to Gerry McGovern (www.customercarewords.com) and Rolf Molich (www.dialogdesign.dk) talk about how they quantify task measurement. I've listened to a couple of Gerry's web casts in the past and I think this one really made a very good compromise between providing useful information, and promoting the products Gerry sells via Customer Care Words. The following is my take on what Gerry and Rolf were trying to get across. Two really useful little things to begin with - a user click takes 4 to 5 seconds and to gain executive traction show user experience before and after. Gerry spoke about failure of intranets based on tools and content. Circa 2000 IT managed an intranet full of tools and the post 2000 intranet stuffed full of content managed by the communications team "like giving a pub to an alcoholic" - Gerry McGovern Gerry sees intranets today being TASK focused - the task solving t...
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