According to the Wall Street Journal (quoting Forrester Research Inc.) the top 7 reasons why companies build or consider building intranets are to: let employees find information (94%); enable collaboration/information sharing (50%); automate business processes (44%); reduce costs (40%); provide secure, remote access via Web (25%); provide online training (17%); and, control access to content/applications (10%).

Consider, for example, how a new employee gets inducted into the organization. How and where does he/she find important information such as what the company holidays are, leave policies, the latest training manuals, etc. (more…)