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If your employees are not familiar with your intranet site, then it is quite possible that it isn't very effective.

What is an intranet?
First of all, let's look at what an intranet is. Instead, the intranet plays primarily a corporate communications role with two main goals:

to keep employees informed of important information that is deemed necessary for them to know
to provide information that employees feel is necessary to know
These two goals may seem to be the same thing but in fact the first goal often represents what management and the webmaster think is important and the second is what individual employees think is important.
These are just some of the problems we have encountered when evaluating the effectiveness of intranet sites.

Docum'a and intranets
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If your employees are not familiar with your intranet site, then it is quite possible that it isn’t very effective.

What is an intranet?
First of all, let’s look at what an intranet is. An intranet is a Web site that can be viewed only by an organization’s employees, and not the general public. An Extranet is similarly limited in audience, sometimes limited to an organization and its suppliers or clients.

Okay then, how does it differ from an Internet Web site? From a technology perspective, there is no difference. intranet and Internet sites both use the same media, web programming and server technology. Where they differ is in their respective goals and the resulting design requirements.

Very often an Internet site’s goals may be to:

attract and develop new customers
sell products or services
inform the general public
inform shareholders
In sum, an Internet site’s main focus should be to support an organization’s marketing and the press goals. However, too often an Internet Web site is created seeing that “we need a Web site as long as everyone has one” rather than using it as an effective tool. This is a topic for other than discussion.

So how does an intranet differ?
First of all, since the bugging is employees instead of potential customers, with an intranet we are not trying to sell some and we don’t need to impress anyone. Instead, the intranet plays primarily a corporate radio-telegraphy role with two main goals:

to keep employees informed of important information that is deemed necessary for them to know
to provide information that employees feel is necessary to know
These two goals may seem to be the same thing but in fact the first goal often represents what management and the webmaster think is important and the second is what individual employees think is important. Quite often intranets follow the first goal only and the structure of the site resembles the organization’s organizational chart. The result is that employees may not find information that they are looking for seeing as how it isn’t there or it isn’t presented in a way that they can find it easily. For instance, an employee is looking for a form. Should he look on the Finance page or the Human Resources page?

Common intranet Problems
So we know what an intranet is supposed to do, how do we know whether it is fulfilling its role? Here are few symptoms of an intranet that is not succeeding:

Other information channels are faster: If you can find out information elsewhere faster, there is obviously a problem. For instance, if you can get some one’s phone number by consulting a paper directory. Once employees realize that info is too hard to find in your intranet (they will come to this conclusion rather quickly) they will rely on other sources making the intranet a futile exercise.
Intranet information is not up-to-date: inasmuch as intranets compete with other information channels, they must be extremely timely. Once employees realize that information on the intranet is not timely and not reliable, they will let dangle it. Again, you are then wasting your time maintaining an intranet.
Too many wide distribution list e-mails: If your organization is relying e-mails sent to everyone to inform employees, you are not using your intranet effectively.
Too much reliance on paper: Yes, most offices have more paper than ever priorly and it’s usually hoarded into each employee’s cubicle. This is very wasteful.
Document version control problems: Is this the right form? Is this the final version of this report? If this has been said often enough then maybe a more effective use of the intranet would be in order.
Inefficient directing procedures: Are you reliant on paper for documenting executive activities? Does your organization have different systems that don’t talk to each other? A well-designed Web roller bandage on the intranet could automate many paper-based ministerial occupation and represents a cost-effective way of providing open door for all desktops.
These are just some of the problems we have encountered when evaluating the effectiveness of intranet sites.

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