Building a new modern intranet site has never been this easy – in the simplest case you can just visit lookbook.microsoft.com, pick your favorite template and deploy it to your tenant.

Although you no longer need to create your own technical solution or platform for your intranet from the scratch, there is still one critical aspect that can’t be copy-pasted or implemented as is. To build a great intranet, you need to plan and implement a proper intranet information architecture that is unique to your organization.

In this session, we will dive deep into intranet information architecture. You will learn how to plan and implement an intranet where users can find the information they need to thrive at work.

Session contents in a nutshell:
• Understanding the basics – what is information architecture
• Defining purpose, roles and contents of the intranet
• Planning the physical infrastructure (hubs and sites)
• Organizing content with navigation and metadata
• Creating awesome and accessible pieces of information using content pages
• Improving discoverability with functional landing pages and additional paths
• Ways to take care of content findability
• Implementing processes to keep the content up to date