Author Archives: Kristian Norling

Information flow part 3: Why persistent links are important

Posted on October 28, 2010 by Kristian Norling

Have you ever got frustrated, angry and tired over broken links on your intranet? Well me too. This got me thinking how to solve it and make a document/web page link persistent over it’s lifecycle, or at least lessen the … Continue reading →

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New feed URL for subscription

Posted on October 22, 2010 by Kristian Norling

I forgot to set up a Feedburner feed for this blog, done now. Sorry about that. New feed address:  http://feeds.feedburner.com/sys64738se

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Information flow part 2: Information and metadata

Posted on October 19, 2010 by Kristian Norling

Honestly, metadata is really, really boring. But hey, metadata is extremely useful. Without good metadata, we can’t really solve the findability problems we have on our intranet. In order to give the right person, the right information, at the right … Continue reading →

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Information flow part 1: Overview

Posted on October 10, 2010 by Kristian Norling

This post gives you an overview of how our information flow is set up on the intranet. All the information systems are “free-for-all”, meaning that they contain only public information, the only access control is whether your computer is inside … Continue reading →

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How do we know that we’re developing the right things, the right way?

Posted on October 6, 2010 by Kristian Norling

I’ll briefly outline our approach/methodolody for developing new functionality. This is how we do it: We use effect management for understanding what the people want in order to make their everyday work easier. We do interactiondesign and test the design … Continue reading →

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Commenting is easy but being a change agent is hard

Posted on September 30, 2010 by Kristian Norling

I have recently started thinking about the hardships of working inside a large organisation as an change agent. It’s always easy to comment things from the outside looking in. I have found myself guilty of trivialising the obstacles for change at … Continue reading →

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Hello world!

Posted on September 26, 2010 by Kristian Norling

This is my, probably futile, attempt to start blogging in english. I’ll do a few posts and then evaluate the effort, guess I will get just a handful of visits to this site. But one never knows. The first longer post … Continue reading →

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