It’s not often that we hear the word ‘government’ and ‘leader’ in the same phrase. However, there are governments that are real intranet leaders and putting to shame their more cocky corporate brethren.
The Federal Government in the
Why? Because they get it.
Like Microsoft, Oracle, IBM, Cisco and a few other intranet leaders, these governments (or armed forces) understand the value and the return on investment of the intranet.
I regularly talk with companies that can’t raise $5,000 to help improve the intranet. Sadly, those same companies spend hundreds of thousands of dollars renovating corporate bathrooms or updating the campus landscaping. Absolutely retarded. The leaders who make these decisions deserve to be shamed.
Moreover, organizations like the Navy-Marine Corps continue to invest and innovate.
The Navy has just deployed a new broadband remote network that will allow Navy and Marine Corps personnel to access the join Navy-Marine Corps intranet (NMCI) remotely from their laptops in the field – 60,000 laptops in all.
NMCI is a 7-year, $9-billion dollar project that consolidates voice, video and data via a single integrated portal linking some 360,000 sailors and Marines at 300 sites.
Well yeah, but you can’t beat a really, really nice bathroom, right? Uh-huh.
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