|Executive
Overview|

Businesses worldwide are rapidly adopting intranets to greatly improve communication, strengthen corporate culture, and provide easy access to legacy data through one interface. Companies that have adopted this technology are quickly seeing the benefits and uses for:

  • Product information and collateral creation and distribution
  • E-mail and group communications
  • Collaborative processing and work communications
  • Unified access to information across a globally dispersed company
  • Corporate and enterprise-wide communications

Silicon Graphics, a $2.9 billion Fortune 500 company, is rapidly transforming its operation with a widely utilized corporate intranet. This study highlights the organizational impact of the intranet on Silicon Graphics, which has resulted in significant benefits in the areas of:

  • Improved communication and worldwide competitiveness
  • Improved productivity
  • Enhanced knowledge capital
  • Strengthened teamwork across divisional and geographic boundaries
  • Improved process efficiency and workflow
  • Increased employee satisfaction
While the culture and organizational structure of every company is different, globally dispersed companies can benefit from the technology efficienciesan intranet provides.

|Introduction|

The increased pressures of competing in the global marketplace have compelled industries to seek innovative ways to increase their competitive edge. Decisions need to be made faster, and products need to be more price competitive and of higher quality. Faster time-to-market has become a business imperative. Immediate access to information has rapidly become a key to success. As a result, these requirements have driven companies to focus on improvements within-- improving employee productivity and enhancing communications among geographically dispersed teams, while encouraging departments to produce more and spend less. Successful companies recognize the need to be more critical of their total business strategies and address these global pressures. An increasing number of organizations are deploying "intranets," thereby tightly integrating technology within their organizational strategies.