Enterprise portals can bring together content, applications and services to end users across the enterprise, which is one of its key values for the modern organization. However, due to this cross-boundary nature of portal projects, conflicting priorities and requirements, constant change, and sometimes unclearly defined policies, some projects have produced poor adoption rates and have missed expected ROI.
Defining a clear strategy of how your portal will align with business objectives, and a well thought out plan for managing that investment will ensure your program’s success. According to a Portal Best Practices publication by Forrester Research in 2006 “A focused portal strategy helps companies build consensus among business stakeholders, ensure downstream adoption…and ultimately avoid overspending on portal implementations.” Also, according to research released by Gartner, Inc. that same year “Governance isn’t Optional –it’s imperative. Without it, return on investment will be low and every…project out of pilot phase will be at risk.”

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Timbergrove Solutions’ The Constitution is an offering to help your organization define a governance model that provides a best fit for your corporate culture and organizational maturity, and delivers a roadmap for implementation you have helped define. Timbergrove Solutions will help facilitate key stakeholders into a decision process that can ensure the proper execution of your vision and deliver expected Return on Investment.
A clear Portal Governance strategy includes defining the best model for managing your portal investment: how decisions are made, who makes those decisions, what metrics are established, and the measurement and reporting of those metrics. Clearly define portal policies that are in line with your IT and corporate Policies, along with well-published standards and procedures can help guide business stakeholders and the teams that support them.
With The Constitution, Timbergrove Solutions will help you defining the rules, operating framework, approval structures, reporting relationships, and decision-making procedures for you portal project. This package will give you a clear understanding of your portal’s standards and guidelines and how those standards should be communicated and governed. Our tens-of-thousands of hours of technology and business consulting in portal engagements will provide you with the necessary broad vision and deep expertise needed to create a robust Portal governance for your enterprise.