Intranets Cut Red Tape
Re: Neilsen, Jakob, Ten Best Government Intranets. useit.com, June 21, 2004.
Intranets play a crucial role in the marketing and feasibility of private companies. When I worked for Porter Novelli, a world-wide public relations firm, I used the company's intranet to complete a large amount of internal tasks. The intranet proved to be an efficient way to quickly access information that is available twenty-four hours a day.
It is refreshing to see the government utilize intranets much like the private sector. As Neilsen noted private industries use intranets to meet and exceed profit margins. The government utilizes intranets to meet and exceed project deadlines. As we all know and have experienced once in our life, the government can act very slowly. So I applaud any attempt to speed up the red tape bureaucracy.
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Agreed. I was always a bit skeptical of intranets until I got to my last company. The developer responsible did a great job of making it the first place you went to for information about the company.
A couple of things that were really worked were:
1. 'Ask the CEO' section, where we could post questions anonymously, and the CEO would post his response.
2. Ability to personalize the main news section, so instead of seeing every announcement, you could filter it to just show you things relevant to you as it was updated.
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