Choosing an Intranet. The project that makes you feel as if you're on a five-year hamster wheel. Is there a better way?

Brian Tomlinson at Hamburg-based real estate firm Engel & Völkers has spent the last few years trying to find a modern, best in class intranet solution that avoids the cyclical hell that we all want to avoid - and has managed to learn a thing or two along the way.

In a recent member conference call, he went through his process for finding and selecting a solution. Everything from identifying the pain points to be fixed to ensuring it has all of the features that you need and finally selling it to the people who hold the purse strings.