The following are the importance of intranet in corporate communication.

Productivity an intranet technology it helps to provide fast information to employees and helps to perform their various tasks with the employee’s example an employee can access any data from any database of the organization without wastage of time. Employee within an organization working and undergoing different project can collaborate easily and ensuring better and fast results.

In corporate communication you can use intranet to provide new employees with quick access to information about the company structure, policies and operation, as well as training and completing human resource paper work. And for a company that has grown extensively by acquisition, the ability to bring new employees up to speed quickly was of critical importance. Intranets can also be used to provide access to meeting minutes, key presentation that might be used by different sales people, and information on the current status of manufacturing operations and in short we can say that intranet help the corporate communicator to communicate with its people easily and it’s a powerful tool for communication within an organization.

Cost effective an intranet it’s important to corporate communication practitioner because it serve money which can be used for publishing so it’s paperless and as intranet support online publishing and it cuts down the printing and distribution cost as well because all document of the company can be published through the intranet using web pages as compared to spending money on printing document and also the information can be accessed from the respective work station of the employees.

Knowledge management in its very broaden sense, knowledge management means capturing, organizing and retrieving corporate information. With all tools and information within the intranet, and employees constantly adding new information in the form of comments, discussions, blogs, documents; the intranet serves as a centralized place to capture important corporate information. Tools like search ensure that employees across the company network can find just the information they need to perform their jobs.

Time saving, an intranet technology is so important to the corporate communication personnel because it saves time through allowing the distribution of variable information among the employees in a fast and efficient manner and also intranet saves time by interactivity example employees can access information at relevant time that suit them, rather than sending and waiting for email and emails to replies and also can serve time through intranet where by the employees could quickly locate information and application relevant to their roles and responsibilities.

JOSHUA HELENA M

BAPRM 42571