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The intranet is changing rapidly

Posted: Thu Feb 13, 2025 4:37 am
by Bappy11
“Why can’t our intranet just be on LinkedIn? At least that works, our intranet doesn’t .” You may have heard this within an organization or thought it yourself. I find it an interesting question and I suspect that we will only hear this question more often. What do you answer to this as an internal or external consultant, communications or IT manager? Below are my considerations and approach.

On the internet you can find all kinds of free tools, such as Dropbox, Yammer and Google Drive. As a result, users have become accustomed to sharing (versions of) documents, working together digitally, sharing short messages with each other, creating and maintaining personal profiles, etc. Satisfaction with internal IT tools and content-oriented intranets is often low, because with them you cannot do the things that you have been able to do privately for a long time.

Free tools as intranet
More and more often you hear and see that employees, sometimes secretly, use free israel telegram data tools to get their work done. Many organizations, especially IT departments, struggle with this. In addition, the suppliers of these internet tools smell blood. They implicitly or explicitly market their solutions as an intranet. LinkedIn recently announced that they may want to use the platform as an intranet for companies. Some companies even use Facebook for their intranet .