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Filed in: Information architecture

23rd May 2001

Best Practices For Successful Intranets

“Most corporate intranets are born around a conference room table, with a bevy of expectations heaped upon them from the moment of conception. The human resource department wants employee self-service and document distribution; sales and marketing requires a portal environment for accessing customer information, sales presentations, and up-to-date product information; upper-level management envisions a communications and data conduit linking global operations and partners — while the members of the IT department find themselves cracking open another package of Tums as hundreds, or even thousands, of Web pages flash before their eyes.”

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Filed in: Web design

23rd May 2001

Best Practices For Successful Intranets

“Most corporate intranets are born around a conference room table, with a bevy of expectations heaped upon them from the moment of conception. The human resource department wants employee self-service and document distribution; sales and marketing requires a portal environment for accessing customer information, sales presentations, and up-to-date product information; upper-level management envisions a communications and data conduit linking global operations and partners — while the members of the IT department find themselves cracking open another package of Tums as hundreds, or even thousands, of Web pages flash before their eyes.”

Comments are closed.