John Gunkler says:
>My only claim to expertise is in the somewhat limited area of "meeting
>management" uses of an Intranet. As Rick also mentions, one of the
>advantages of an intranet (or the Internet) in meeting management is its
>ability to do "time shifting" and "location shifting." That is, to hold
>meetings at which people attend at different times and from different
>locations -- whereas a traditional face-to-face meeting requires that
>people be "synchronous" in both time and location.
In my own work, I find intranet technology useful for building information
spaces, where our teams can review their progress in product/process
development on new products; monitor the performance of the manufacturing
systems they've developed; read, think, and learn about the general
principles of organizational behavior, project management, tools, metrics,
and life in general. The technology has becoming very easy to deploy
thanks to the people at Microsoft.
My work here has focused on "focus" -- where Rick has been experimenting,
quite successfully with this listserv, with longer-term informal
discussions, I have worked on time-limited (more like traditional meetings
but somewhat more flexible), agenda-driven (which also implies
specific-outcome-driven) uses of technology. If my ideas could be of
help, please help me focus on what I could do for you.
The inclusion of 'message boards', 'discussion lists', etc. for the
collection, management, dissemination, and even analysis, of dialogue and
creativity is made easier by the inclusion of tools to deploy them with a
little technology and a lot of creativity is another of the benefits of
the 'evil empire' of Microsoft. It's easily enough done and readily
available
right out of the box.
John Zavacki
jzavacki@greenapple.com
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