Top ten intranet winners revealed

The winners of top ten best intranet designs were revealed this morning.

Jakob Nielsen, web design guru, has published a list of companies who have managed to come up with a simple and easy to navigate intranet design, by using in-house designers or with a little help from out-of-box software integrated with all the relevant company information.

Nielsen said that the size, location and the type of company is irrelevant when it comes to good intranet design.

"It's obvious from the list that good intranets can be found in many places: huge companies, small companies, university departments with almost no budget, government agencies, and non-profits as well as in several different countries. In fact, we had runner-ups from two other continents that almost made it into the top 10," Nielesen said in a statement.

The winners are:

Andersen: Business Radar 3.0
BC Hydro: HydroWeb
Cisco Systems: I-deal (tristream)
Fidelity Investments Canada
Interactive Applications Group: Community [apps]
Lulea University of Technology, Sweden
Pearson Technology Centre
Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC): ISSAIC
silverorange
United States Department of Transportation: DOTnet

Nielsen also said in his statement that next year will be the year of the intranet: "I expect 2002 to be the year that most companies start taking their intranets seriously, improving their usability to boost employee productivity."

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