Examples of Business Value:
The text outlines several examples of how top-rated companies have been able to derive cost savings or revenue benefits from their intranet applications. These include:
1. Provide better access to financial reports and improve productivity, speed, and control. Employees select from preformatted reports and create their own subscription lists.
2. Access to engineering documents and information. Reduces paper costs and increases speed of information transfer.
3. Global staffing tool for project teams. Able to find skilled staff and reduces time and effort to complete projects.
4. Group intranet supports manufacturing, engineering, and marketing. Allows for each document exchange and reduces paper costs.
5. Internal web site for sales and customer service. Reduces call volume and increases sales with greater salesforce involvement.
6. DataDoc Online. Reflects daily changes on video rentals, books, music, and software across 115 retail locations. Saves IS time and improves data accessibility and accuracy.
7. KeyCorp’s knowledge bank distributes job postings, information on best practices and training, marketing, and newsletters.
8. Knowledge management and corporate communications system facilitates collaboration on projects. Productivity increased via information exchange and streamlining workflow.
9. Marketing, planning, and operations. Shares business information for improved decision making, efficiency, and competitiveness.
10.Each area on the manufacturing has its own home page updated every 60 seconds. Improves process and quality.
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