Intranet Adoption and Implementation : a Development Framework

The evolution of corporate intranets has tremendous implications for organization-wide information sharing, communication, collaboration, and application support. While some organizations continue to use intranets primarily for publishing and posting internal documents and corporate policies, a few are unleashing the power of intranets to access knowledge sources, collaborate on projects, and transform work. Despite these organization-wide impacts, there is a scarcity of development frameworks to guide research and practice. Developing intranets is different from traditional system development methodologies. In this paper, we provide a framework that outlines the intranet development life cycle (IDLC) and propose continuing research to study the impact of contextual factors on the adoption and implementation of corporate intranets.