The purpose of this project is to improve productivity, and effectiveness of communication and collaboration within the UBC IT department. This will consist of:
- Designing the SharePoint architecture and infrastructure that will support not only this deployment but any future deployments by other departments;
- Building a new corporate intranet, based on Microsoft SharePoint 2010, by April 30, from the wireframes and information architecture developed in the CCIS project;
- Designing a more engaging and interactive site through the use of effective graphic design and branding;
- Designing a communications framework that overhauls existing communications and channels, and supports distributed authoring;
- Creating a governance committee;
- Developing and implementing an effective governance structure that supports a distributed content model and establishes clear ownership and policies;
- Implementing a more effective search engine, with appropriate taxonomy;
- Identifying key content to be available at launch and for other content develop a content migration plan approved by the Governance committee.
