Intranet Business Strategies

By Mellanie Hills

A total blueprint for planning and implementing a state-of-the-art intranet in your organization! Intranets are an economical, easy to use, and secure way to bring the many benefits of the World Wide Web to your company. They have been proven to save cost and significantly increase productivity in major companies around the world. Yet, selling upper management on the idea of an intranet isn't always easy. Intranet Business Strategies is for business and IT managers interested in helping their companies profit from the many advantages of a private, Web-based network. It's also a complete, step-by-step guide for all those involved in planning and implementing their organization's intranet. With the help of case studies from 13 leading companies, including JCPenney, Bell Atlantic, EDS, Texas Instruments, and Turner Broadcasting, intranet expert Mellanie Hills: * Analyzes the advantages, disadvantages, costs, and benefits of an intranet * Demonstrates what an intranet can do for your company * Explores what intranets look like, who uses them, and many other practical strategic issues * Helps you determine whether your company is ready for an intranet * Provides you with a step-by-step plan for implementing an intranet along with detailed checklists * Shows you how to determine and develop your infrastructure needs * Describes the tools you'll need and how to select and acquire them * Offers a complete plan for selling an intranet to your company including a sample presentation with web pages * Shows how to involve all areas of your company to develop your intranet * Highlights the lessons learned from 13 companies that have been there * Demonstrates how to create an intranet team and includes actual meeting agendas

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0471163740
• ISBN13: 9780471163749
• Release Date: September 1996
• Publisher: Wiley
• Length: 396 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 1.0" x 7.5"

Customer Reviews

Great book.....

Just writing to compliment you on your excellent book - Intranet Business Strategies. I picked up a copy when I was in San Francisco a few weeks ago. Right on the mark.... I'm Managing Director of a Sports Photographic Agency in the UK - total staff 40 including 10 photographers travelling the world with Powerbooks, scanners and modems. The book helped crystalise my ideas - and last week spent half a day making up an Intranet myself from simple HTML pages - demos to Management Team have had brilliant response. The EMPICS IntraWEB opens on Friday ... and I'm sure it's going to be a hit..... Off to buy your Groupware book on the WWW now!!!!

Good advice on people/process aspect of starting an Intranet

This book focusses on the processes to follow in organising the initial setup of an intranet in a organisation. Hence its most useful to those people in medium to large firms with quite formal IT development processes. I used it as input to writing a feasibility study and found it a valuable source for the development approach. Its significant value lies in the fact its one of the few Intranet "how-to" books which tackles the often-neglected but very necessary topics of getting your $, winning over management, organising your team,etc - all the "peopleware" stuff rather than the in-depth technical programming which can be easily found in other books.

Excellent "How-To" get your company ready for the Web

Great book for companies looking for an approach to getting on the Web. Excellent case studies of companies (big ones) that have done it