Enterprise Inheritance and Content Hierarchy

This post is my humble attempt to share what I have discovered from my experience to be a best practice in implementing IA (Information Architecture) and content hierarchy for an enterprise implementing manage sites within a single Sitecore instance. As this is my first Sitecore blog, not to mention my first blog post ever, please feel free to comment and critique my approach as I attempt to contribute to the incredibly talented Sitecore developer community. So let’s just jump into it, consider the following scenario: an enterprise has just acquired Sitecore as their CMS platform and wants to strategize on how they should implement IA and content hierarchy so that they maximize reuse and have a Sitecore instance that scales really well. It is unsurprisingly common for businesses to decide to manage the entire company’s content within a single Sitecore instance and why not, since this is one of the easiest selling points for Sitecore, “Buy a single instance and you can build any many we...