If you want to know if you really need a content management system, ask yourself the following questions:
- Does it take you more than a few hours for a job posting, news story, product page, support note or other time-sensitive document to be posted on your web site?
- Do all web site changes grind to halt if anyone in your organization goes on vacation of is sick?
- Does any one group in your company always gets top priority for content changes, delaying web site changes for other groups?
- Are groups within your company disenchanted with the web site because it doesn't serve their needs within their timeframes?
- Does it take weeks or months to make a simple global changes to the Web site, such as adding a new navigational element on every page?
- Is your site larger than few hundred pages?
- Does it need to be updated more than a few times a week?
- Is the information architecture of your web site slowely decaying, with broken links or broken images found throughout the site
- Are content creators and contributors located at multiple locations?
- Do content creators need different levels of authorization for management?
If you answered yes to any of these questions, you really need a content strategy that is supported by a content management system. Further, if you are about to launch a new web site or redesign an existing web site, deploying a content management system now can help the redesign go more smoothly and even launch sooner.