You Know You Need to Create a Portal When...
- You're in the healthcare, engineering, educational, environmental, food and packaging, or other industry targeted by for-profits.
- Younger members are harder to hold on to, difficult to motivate to participate in volunteer leadership, and demand individual solutions to their problems when they want it, and in a format they personally can use.
- Content creation is overwhelming and the bottleneck appears to be at staff departmental level.
- Your industry/profession represents a market that has a supply chain comprised of:
- many buyers, suppliers, and professionals
- product differention is difficult to attain
- fragmented supply chain
- high information search cost
- high product comparison cost