Aligning Your Web Initiative with Your Business

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This presentation will provide tips on how to keep your Web Teams activities aligned with what is most important to the business or department.

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Aligning Your Web Initiative with Your Business

dotCMS Boot Camp14 April 2010

Today

• What is Alignment?

• Why should you be Involved?

• Some Examples – Good and Bad

• The Steps to (re) Alignment

What is Alignment?

Why Should You Be Involved?

If you own the Web or even a part of it…

You may be responsible for alignmentEven if no one told you

Ownership has its rewards

What Role Does Your Site Play?

GenerateLeads

What Role Does Your Site Play?

Education and Time Sensitive Information

What Role Does Your Site Play?

Drive Sales through Ease of Planning

What Role Does Your Site Play?

General Info.Portal

How to Identify It

Poor Online/Offline Alignment

How to Identify It

Poor Online/Offline Alignment

How to Identify It

o Call Center training budget cut 30%o Hold times increaseo Pushes more folks to website for answerso But IA, Applications and Content have not

been changed to cope with new reality

Poor Operations Alignment

How to Identify It

o Online event registration not integrated with Call Center event registration

o Poor brand experienceo Missed opportunities to up-sell, cross-sell

Poor Operations Alignment

What creates Mis-Alignment?

1. Poor Communication that Results in…Online zigging and Offline zagging

Arriving Late the the Party2. A Toxic Perception

Mt. Implementation(our Toxic Perception)

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Organizational Effort

Organizational Effort

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Plan Implement Maintain

What creates Mis-Alignment?

1. Poor Communication that Results in…Online zigging and Offline zagging

Arriving Late the the Party2. A Toxic Perception

3. The Realities of a Budget

The Steps to (re) Alignment

1. Gaining BU Input

2. Assembling a Team Structure

3. Link Web and Business Metrics

The Steps to (re) Alignment

1. Gaining BU Input Review or create a Design Document

BU goals, audiences, functional reqs., content reqs., blueprint,

wireframes

http://www.webmonkey.com/2010/02/information_architecture_tutorial/

The Steps to (re) Alignment

1. Gaining BU Input (cont’d)Treat BU as Customer and Strategy

Partner

The Steps to (re) Alignment

1. Gaining BU Input (cont’d)Treat BU as Customer and Strategy

Partner

The Steps to (re) Alignment

1. Gaining BU Input (cont’d)Integrate Your Agreements into SLAs

Including client expectations

The Steps to (re) Alignment

2. Assembling a Web Team Structure– W-OPS

• Web Operations• Ensures that the tactics of Web site development align with overall

organizational mission.

– WEM• Web Execution Management• Day to day execution by the Web Team; the Web Team carries out plans

developed by Web Ops.

– WPM• Web Performance Measurement• Web analytics that are connected to business goals

The Steps to (re) Alignment3. Link Web and Business Metrics

The Steps to (re) Alignment

3. Link Web and Business Metrics (cont’d)

Leads

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When you unpack…

• Do you have a document that guides alignment between college/dept. and your site?

• Who is responsible? Who should be?• How to course-correct (if you need to)

Thank You!bill@dotcms.com+1-786-594-5288

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