Why Intranets are stagnant?
Shel Holtz has posted thoughtfully on why intranets are stagnant on his blog. I couldn’t agree more with some of his reasons. The two notable reasons that stand out are - IT departments have invested so much in developing the infrastructure of their current intranet, they’re less interested in changing it once more and the existing intranet hasnât lived up to expectations in the first place; why invest time and effort in it now?
Adoption of web 2.0 innovations on enterprise intranets is definitely slow but it is only a matter of time before things really start to change. As employees become more familiar with web innovations like del.icio.us, digg, Linkedin, Flikr and Pageflakes , theyâre going to demand them on their intranet too. Credit goes to Google who seem to really understand how internet usage can influence intranets and extranets.
