The Mobile intranet - Managing People and Information in a Distributed Organization

As a result of the increasing globalisation of organizations, information systems must deal with issues of mobility. Longer distances between the members can lead to a knowledge gap, which means that two groups of people working in the same organization work according to completely different bases o...

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Main Authors: Larsson, Andreas, Larsson, Tobias, Törlind, Peter
Format: Conference Object
Language:English
Published: Luleå University of Technology 2002
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Online Access:http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:bth-11308
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Summary:As a result of the increasing globalisation of organizations, information systems must deal with issues of mobility. Longer distances between the members can lead to a knowledge gap, which means that two groups of people working in the same organization work according to completely different bases of information. Thus, there is a need for the members of an organization to communicate efficiently across geographical and departmental boundaries. The paper discusses motives, methods and experiences from the participatory design of a versatile Intranet application currently in use at the Division of Computer Aided Design, Luleå University of Technology in Sweden.