How do you implement a new intranet for 20.000 employees with the tool SharePoint Server 2007? Technically it's not difficult, you can do this in a week or two, but managing the process of working differently, that's the big challenge.
How to setup your new intranet? What kind of information do you expose? Which items can be changed by the employee? How does it cooperate with our current CMS and Discussion platform (Community Server)? A lot of questions...
We invited Microsoft to help us with this process, starting off with a management presentation in February. After that we will have a different presentation for the 'technical people'; the ones who will install and configure it and do functional maintenance. We pushed this guy to show some examples of the MS intranet and he cooperated. We went over and had a glance to see how MS has implemented SharePoint Server 2007. Office 2007 is already commonly used in MS Office (as expected).
Then the 64.000 dollar question....
Could we get some print screens of some important pages in the MS intranet. This was no problem!!! We have put the screen dumps into a nice PowerPoint which we can use to demonstrate to the Top Management. This will help us a lot to get this done in 6 months....