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Using Communication site for intranet - need help?
How about Microsoft Teams?
A team site is fine, however modern collaboration is about more than documents. A subsite will constrain you, while a separate team site or starting with Microsoft Teams directly will give you room for growth. MS Teams gives you the team site, and then more.
The downside of MS Teams is that it is not mature yet, for example when it comes to document libraries.
Side note: mirroring an org chart for collaboration is usually not a good idea. I am saying that because you used the word "department".
One more recommendation: if your organization has more than 50 users, I would consider multiple communication sites joined in a hub.
- I've had plenty of success using departments for collaboration. That's the starting point and many organization still work in department silos. Not saying that should be your stop gap, but it's a good starting point to get everyone in, because departments like it or not are still a logical division and most still work together in that structure. You obviously would still have Teams / Sites based around functions / projects etc.
ChrisWebbTech I have also seen some failures from organizations just handing the org chart over to IT and thinking they were done with their Information Architecture.
My main point was that mirroring is not a good idea, and it doesn't hurt to give it some thought. Departments such as HR or Finance would probably have their dedicated teams, however it might not be the case for operations, Communications or IT. My advice: just look at how collaboration actually happens in your organization.
