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Article Excerpt
Something odd is happening. While financial turmoil engulfs large organizations, intranets and related employee-Facing technologies are experiencing a new injection of momentum. Budgets may have been slashed in many central services, but intranet services across multiple sectors are enjoying large-scale investment.
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It seems that intranets--and the related online communities within them--are being viewed by senior management as drivers of efficiency and productivity, and as "cultural glue," during turbulent times. Let's get rid of the people handling travel booking and automate the service via the intranet. If people can work from home using the intranet and online communities more easily, then the need for office space declines. And so it goes on.
If anything, intranets are driving services forward at such a great pace that, post-recession, the organization that emerges will be fitter, leaner and more adaptable. Prior to the downturn, the rate of development was already intense, but market conditions have caused a new wave of intranet acceleration to arrive.
This new wave can be loosely described as "Intranet 3.0." The term describes the integration of a range of employee-facing services delivered via technologies that are melding into the fabric of the organization. This amalgamation of deep-lying services, applications and communities is reshaping where work is done, how it is done and the ease by which it can be completed. Any "intranet road map" must take into account the current reality for...
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