Thursday, March 12, 2009

Intranet Portal Design

Intranet Portal Design: The first task was to put together the perfect team for the
new venture. He advertised the available positions inside NTT
DoCoMo, and forty people applied. He was looking for
individuals with the right background and skills who would
respond to new challenges as well as working well under stress.
Helped by McKinsey he set up “stress” interviews with twentyfour
of the candidates, to test their response to pressure situations,
and selected five people with business and technical backgrounds,
two of them in their early twenties. This rigorous interviewing
process helped Enoki form his ideas about what the new service
should be like, as he was forced to answer questions from the
applicants, and as he went along found himself more and more
confident about his answers.
His vision became clearer: the service should appeal to young
people and amateurs as well as people with jobs and commutes.
He could see that there would be new opportunities to achieve
this if messaging and Internet access could enhance the normal
phone service, but it would have to be designed in a way that
would appeal to impatient youngsters and technophobic adults.
None of the people he had found inside NTT DoCoMo would
find it easy to think about the nature of content and services that
might have this appeal, so he decided to look outside. Intranet Portal Design: That was
when he thought of bringing in Mari Matsunaga, who knew how
to make magic with very few words in a classified employment ad.