Many organizations have implemented intranets.

Contact or visit several local organizations in the public and private sector that have intranets. Find the unit or person who is responsible for the organization’s intranet, and discuss its application architecture, features, policies, issues, and so on.

a. Describe each of the organizations you contacted.

b. Describe each of their intranets and how they are used by employees.

c. Are they primarily informational intranets, or are any of them being used as a portal where everything—

their desktop applications and any information system applications they use for their job—runs from the intranet browser?

d. Who “owns” the intranet in the organization, and who is responsible for posting content or keeping it current?

e. Do your discussions make you feel that the organizations’

employees and intranet owners understand the potential of their intranet and are using it to its full potential? Explain your answer.