Intraorganizational communication with intranets

The technical performance and business contribution of intranet applications has proved to many organizations world wide that intranet technology is a cost effective and efficient approach to supporting corporate distributed computing strategies. Increasingly, all kinds of organizations are taking advantage of intranets to disseminate corporate documents, forms, news, policies, phone directories, product specifications and pricing information. In addition to using the technology to integrate individual, group, departmental and corporate communications, business managers are exploring intranets to enhance their organizations' business strategies. Intranets have been used to unify geographically dispersed work forces. They have been used to empower employees around the world through a communication tool supporting collaboration, interaction and real-time sharing of corporate information across functional boundaries and organizational levels. This form of distributed information infrastructure may enable some corporate managers to redefine their computing strategies and organizational control to better address competitive business environments. INSET: How the Study Was Done.