Exploiting the Intranet

The subject of this paper is the company Intranet, and its main focus is on the need for this relatively recent innovation to be system engineered. The paper´s thesis is that the company Intranet is capable of enabling radical cultural change and of delivering extraordinary productivity improvement, provided that it is systems engineered. If it is not to be system engineered, then it very likely will be vendor-driven. Those companies who adopt this approach, rather than one based on a thorough and thoughtful requirements-driven design (of what could become an essential item of corporate infrastructure), must be prepared to live with the consequences of that decision