The Intranet and Organizational Functions

1 - INTRODUCTION ......................... 1

Background ........................... 1

Statement of the Problem ............. 2

Research Purpose ..................... 4

Research Questions ................... 4

Organization of the Research ......... 5

2 - REVIEW OF LITERATURE ................. 7

Introduction ......................... 7

Conceptual Framework ................. 7

Organizational Context ............ 7

Information Technology ............ 14

Importance of IT ............... 14

Broadband vs. Narrowband ....... 15

Measuring the Impact of IT ..... 21

Review of Relevant Research .......... 24

Literature Review Summary ............ 33

3 û RESEARCH METHODOLOGY ................. 36

Introduction ......................... 36

Research Design ...................... 36

Research Questions and Hypotheses .... 37

Population and Sample ................ 40

Data Collection ...................... 43

Instrumentation ...................... 43

Data Analysis ........................ 44

4 û RESULTS .............................. 52

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link saves three to four hours every day and saves hundreds of dollars each month in courier services. As a consequence of the speed offered by the new network, Falcon is also able to move 150 megabits of image files directly from its computers to its image service firm in an hour. This capacity compares to the hour that would have to be spent putting these files on disks, the two hours more it would take to send them by courier to the imaging service, and the additional hour that the service would need to copy the disks onto its machines. Broadband IT also permits far more efficient retrieval and handling of complex documents and images, such as forms and legal agreements that are part of the daily business of banks and stock brokerage firms (investment banking firms). Banks and stock brokers use a large number of documents that are stored as digital images on a computer. These firms need to find these forms rapidly and to transmit them to customers or to other businesses. While this task could be done at lower speeds overnight, the demand for this information requires that the forms be transmitted immediately. As a consequence, banks stock brokerages need the higher speed and bandwidth that broadband IT provides. Bank
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