Intranet Business Strategies [Paperback]

Mellanie Hills (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0471163740 | ISBN-13: 978-0471163749 | Publication Date: September 1996 | Edition: 1

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

Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher

Intranets Private web-based networks-- internal web sites-- located within an organization's firewalls, that connect employees and business partners to vital corporate information. Intranet systems can be cheap, easy to use, and secure. The intranet has been deemed the new killer application for business-- by everyone from BusinessWeek to Computer World. This book shows companies how to develop the best plan for implementing an intranet. Revealing the best intranet uses, including its advantages and disadvantages, the book explores how an intranet will fit into the organization, who is going to use it, what it should look like, and other practical strategic issues. Author Mellanie Hills also shares intranet experiences from over twenty companies, using case studies and including actual intranet interface in the book.

From the Back Cover

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

Product Details

• Paperback: 396 pages
• Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (September 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0471163740
• ISBN-13: 978-0471163749
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.5 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,312,648 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Useful, but dated, information, April 20, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Intranet Business Strategies (Paperback)

I should have noticed that the book had not been updated since 1996 (an ETERNITY in "Web Years"). The information was useful in a general since, but I feel like I paid to much. I should have just picked it up at the library.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Well below average., January 30, 2001

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Hasit Bakhda (London, UK) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Intranet Business Strategies (Paperback)

It started out well, with a description of an Intranet and where it all came from. It then degenerates into a poor version of people management book. The title of the book "Intranet Business Strategies" is a misnomer. There are no strategies at all, rather a set of high level, very glib statements about the fact that "you should sell the Intranet internally" (where else would you sell it?) and "the four stages of a team".

However, THE most patronising thing about this book is that it details meeting agendas and schedules - something I would hope even the poorest of managers should be able to work out by themselves.

Perhaps I was hoping for too much in a book called "Intranet Business Strategies", and so the only redeeming feature of this book is that if you know nothing about an Intranet (from basic people management, technology, or perhaps even putting an agenda together for a meeting), then this is the book for you.

My personal recommendation is that you buy a Internet (not Intranet) technology book, understand the basics of that and work with a partner to do the rest. Its cheaper and a lot less frustrating.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Generally disappointed although useful info obtained, October 13, 1997

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This review is from: Intranet Business Strategies (Paperback)

I found a great deal of the content to be superficial and there was also a significant amount of redundancy throughout the book. A VERY beginner-oriented book. That may may well justify the redundancy and emphasis on (shallow) breadth rather than depth. While I still have not found any other books that address what this book attempts to address, because of the reasons cited above, I can only give it a modest recommendation.