A newly released market study says the answer is a resounding yes. It surveyed 1,000 new intranet users at Columbia Gas, Owens Corning, and Silicon Graphics.
Intranets typically start form the bottom and reach upward through an organization.
Though executive support is critical, intranets are great examples of grassroots efforts that take hold and grow quickly. Sixty percent of the users surveyed learned of their organization's intranet through paper memoranda or company newsletters. Further illustrating the organizations' sites, users are quick to embrace the intranet as a critical workplace tool. Canterucci says that while some of the enthusiasm can be attributed to the novelty of the medium among those surveyed, this shouldn't obscure the operational role intranets assume within organizations. As intranets become a more important part of an organization's infrastructure, users are actually connected to the intranet most of the day.