Does your company have an Enterprise Search Strategy?
Good evening all of my search jedi's :-)
I heard a great analyst, Matthew Brown, from Forrester talk about how important it is a to have a strategy and he did a very good job defining the steps to developing the strategy. There is a great brief summary of the article at documentmedia.com here:
Newsletter Archives: How To Be A Hero: Develop An Enterprise Search Strategy
Matt outlines the importance of the following seven steps to be successful in your enterprise search:
- Define objectives
- Define a desired scope
- Evaluate and select content enrichment methods
- Define requirements, and identify vendor products
- Define a taxonomy of search types
- Plan for a relevant user experience
- Implement, monitor, and improve
Matt goes into great detail into going into detail of the 7 steps, and I recommend if this resonates with you and want to know more details you may want to consider getting the full report here :
How To Be A Hero: Develop An Enterprise Search Strategy
Happy Searching!