This report is about an investigation which has been done as an assignment in aninternational company. An Intranet has been implemented in parts of this company, andprimarily there is a local group of people in the company which is responsible for thelocal Intranet as an informationsystem. This local group of people is also responsiblefor further development of the use of Intranet as an informationssystem in the localorganisation. To create a starting-point for this development, I have done aninvestigation that deals with:· acceptance of Intranet as informationssystem among members of the industrialmanagement.- what factors affect acceptance of Intranet in a negative way- what factors affect acceptance of Intranet in a positive way· rules by which further development of Intranet is supposed to be based on· existing and needed Intranet-applications..

The purpose of this paper is to describe how the workgroup and I developed and construc­ted an Intranet at Pharmacia & Upjohn, Helsingborg. The Intranet was constructed by the help of WWW-technique. The intention was to increase and improve the distribution of infor­mation in the large company. Some of the employees were interviewed and asked what they could gain by using the Intranet for information distribution instead of the usual papers. They also got a chance to tell us what they thought about the whole idea with the Intranet.

This is a comparative study of the use of Intranet in three organizations. The organizations are one help organization, one hospital and one business company. The Intranet is a relatively new medium and it might still not have been accepted by all potential users, which is a waste of resources both for the individual employee and for the overall organization. It is therefore necessary to investigate if there are any differences between organizations concerning the needs of Intranets. Our purpose with this study was to deepen the understanding of the use of Intranets as a channel of organizational communication and thereby acknowledge the users´ needs and opinions of the Intranet.

AbstractThis report discusses how the Intranet as a communication tool can bedeveloped to become a daily work tool. An Intranet can help the organization to get information out to the employees fast, and the employees can choose when they want to take part of the information. This report also discusses how the functions and the presented information can be developed to be even better. The proposals has been developed out from information gathered from a survey,the people who has answered the survey has been given their point of view of the Intranet, and also proposals for improvements, which we have implemented in to our theory part. There is no company or organization that uses the exact same Intranet solution.

Today, an Intranet is an important way for a company to share information. An Intranet has become a company?s way to communicate within the organisation. This communication is important, especially when the company is going through changes. In order for a project to succeed, the employees must support it.

The aim of this masters thesis is to learn how an organization has solved its information management via Intranet and document management. The purpose is to identify what different types of information are made available via an Intranet, how this information is structured and what functions the Intranet includes. Conventions, directions and advice about Intranets and document management were studied, with the purpose to compare whether the systems of the company correlate with these. Other issues considered in the thesis, are how the employees of the organization use the Intranet and how the document management is organized. To get an understanding of these questions the structure and functions of the Intranet were studied empirically and a questionnaire on what the employees need and use, concerning the Intranet, was sent out to 130 employees.

A social Intranet is an information and communication channel that is relatively new. There is still a small amount of research done around social Intranet and what it is, and also on what organizations and their members may benefit from using such an Intranet. Therefore, this paper was written with the purpose to em-phasize the reasons, possibilities and difficulties of implementing and using a so-cial Intranet. With interview as method we took part of the experiences and views on social Intranet from a number of organizations that are using or is about to establish a social Intranet, and also from companies who deliver the service. Through the use of previous research in organizational communication, we then analysed the responses we received from our respondents.

The aim of this Master Thesis is to examine how the national Intranet at Nordea serves the organisation as a channel of information and communication. The Intranets of today, have partially or completely come to replace other channels of information within larger organisations, and the Intranet has become an increasingly important issue to the communicational process of organisations. To address the problem stated, qualitative interviews was accomplished with several employees at a department at Nordea. The achieved result reflects how the Intranet supports variable everyday end-user situations. The result shows an Intranet that is sparsely used in comparison to other channels of communication such as colleagues.

This Master thesis studies how a diversified institutional care organisation can optimise its collective knowledge resources so to manage and distribute this knowledge to different parts of the organisation with help of the organisations Intranet. The purpose of the study is to examine if knowledge management and the organisations Intranet can be used to create, store, transfer and better use the knowledge within the organisation. Through a case study the thesis will look at different knowledge processes and their relation to the organisations Intranet. The case study includes a questionnaire for the whole organisation and qualitative interviews with seven persons from different levels of the organisation. The theoretical framework of the study approaches knowledge management and Intranet through four knowledge processes.

While designing an Intranet for people with mobile work there are things you have to consider. This thesis is aim to bring understanding to the difficulties involved in these kinds of situations. Our focus is to develop ideas that motivate the assistants to use the Intranet. We have looked into the profession of personal assistants and wish to highlight their problems to access the Intranet. And we will as well demonstrate their needs for communication.

Purpose/Aim: The aim of this essay is to study the expectations towards the launch of an Intranet in a large organisation.Material/Method: A qualitative method has been used to fulfil the purpose of this essay. Indepth interviews have been made with eight informants of dioceses.Main Results: The study shows that the eight informants of dioceses all are positive towards the launch of an Intranet in the organisation. They believe that it in time will lead to a more effective intern communication with less channels and more efficient messages..

While designing an Intranet for people with mobile work there are things you have to consider. This thesis is aim to bring understanding to the difficulties involved in these kinds of situations. Our focus is to develop ideas that motivate the assistants to use the Intranet. We have looked into the profession of personal assistants and wish to highlight their problems to access the Intranet. And we will as well demonstrate their needs for communication.

This is an investigation into the ways in which a group of librarians experience and make use of the Intranet in their vocational role. The theoretical frame of reference consists of a model of how professionals seek information, which is based on a role-theory. As a method, I have applied a qualitative case-study. Using semi-structured qualitative interviews I have interviewed five librarians and the webmaster responsible for the Intranet in their library. I have investigated how elements such as the age and vocational role of the librarians affect their use of the Intranet.

In order to get a better understanding of the interaction between employees and their technical work tools one needs to know what factors influence the interaction. The purpose of this study was to examine if there is a correlation between the personality traits Extraversion (E) and Neuroticism (N), tested with Eysenck Personality Inventory (EPI), and experience of the new Intranet among employees at The Swedish National Transport Administration (SNTA), and also to gather information of employees? opinions about the new Intranet. A survey, containing questions about the Intranet and a personality test (EPI), was posted on SNTA?s Intranet for eight workdays (N = 88, females = 53, males = 35).

The aim with this independent degree project of master thesis is to find what the user opinions of the Intranet in a county council is. The paper seeks how the question about how the culture in the organisation was affected by the use of the Intranet. An important part is to explore the expectations and acceptance of the Intranet and get a picture of which functions and services support day-to-day work with good quality. One goal is to find out how the Intranet users feel that the communication, information and usability can be developed.The focus group interview is a qualitative method that has been applied for gathering data from the respondents, who participate in the investigation from the county council. The used method is unstructured focus groups containing the three dominating categories of staff in the county council.