Word: intranets
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...impressive. He comes across as a man who really, really likes efficiency, especially efficiency that can be expressed in percentages. The summer after his freshman year he worked at a Texas law firm and “Eliminated 30% of office paper by linking incoming facsimiles electronically to office intranet.” Junior year: “Implemented a multi-media marketing campaign [for a computer-training company in Texas] that increased student enrollment by over 300%.” About the only resume item not accompanied with a percentage is his address...
...search engines' limitations might not matter to those who still see the World Wide Web as a free-of-charge garden of delights - the very word browser, after all, implies idle curiosity. But for information-dependent businesses, the reality is different. "Companies have spent billions of dollars on intranet infrastructures, knowledge management systems and customer relationship management systems, and the best return on investment they've had so far is e-mail," says Mahendra Vora, CEO of Intelliseek, one of several new companies aiming to unlock the potential of the invisible Web for their customers. Launched in Cincinnati...
...thrive among poverty and illiteracy. The $45,000 community-financed project - the brainchild of district collector Rajesh Rajora, who supervises it with Nitesh Vyas, CEO of the local government - strings together villages through a series of 34 rural cyberkiosks and links them to the district administration through an intranet. Half the users earn less than $300 a year each, and one out of six has to walk at least 5 km to reach a computer. Charging about 10 cents, a kiosk manager records villagers' complaints or provides them with information. That user fee makes kiosks self-sustaining...
...suits them." With over 3,000 hits every day it's not just tourists who are logging on. "Locals can check whether a pub is busy and use [the webcams] as an atmosphere gauge," says Gavin Reay, ceo of Viewpub. Viewpub has also set up an in-pub intranet to create a community spirit and host regular events, like interactive quizzes in which rival pubs compete against each other on large screens showing live shots of the opposition. This might sound like a good idea - until you see the victory "salute" of the team from the Hogwash in Watford...
...same time, technologies for videoconferencing, Web conferencing and intranet sites have improved in quality and price and have spread around the world. They have made virtual management not only possible but preferable for many companies. Of 82 large multinational firms surveyed by PricewaterhouseCoopers in 2000, 24% allowed home-based employees to manage operations in another country instead of forcing them to relocate. A higher proportion of firms took the more traditional route of sending their managers to live in foreign countries. But looking forward, most companies said they expected to adopt the virtual approach at a much faster rate...