Why Build An Intranet?
More than fifty years after it first sounded like a really great idea if it could be done, the time has come when you can actually build an intranet through which to manage the knowledge you need to practice law more efficiently and effectively. Moreover, since we can now connect work groups and entire organizations, the goal is also to create a truly useful collective knowledge resource and alter lawyers’ methods of delivering legal services to their clients. An organization’s members can use such a resource in two interrelated capacities: first, as contributors of their own knowledge and, second, as consumers — not only of the knowledge they have recorded earlier but also of the knowledge that others have recorded for them. The whole of a collaborative, knowledge-sharing organization will inevitably exceed the sum of the knowledge capabilities of its parts. Simply put, knowledge sharing and reuse throughout a knowledge-intensive organization leads to dramatic improvements in efficie
