"Can intranet development be a valuable means of organisational learning?"

Christine Schweighart

Marie Reynard

pp. 153-165

in: Trevor Wood Harper, Nimal Jayaratna, Bob Wood (eds), Methodologies for developing and managing emerging technology based information systems, Berlin, Springer, 1999

Abstract

The following paper sets out an exploration of the contribution that intranet development and use can bring, not only as an e-mail and publishing medium, but also for its use as a communication medium to facilitate organisational learning. Changes due to new technology and education needs are introduced, then current project management is considered. The paper ends concluding that methods following a traditional life-cycle approach to application development do not support the educational process required, and that an explicit management of learning outcomes is needed within intranet development projects.