Internet Tool at Dirt Bikes

Internet Tools at Dirt Bikes



Internet Tools at Dirt Bikes
Intranets are becoming more popular throughout small and large companies. “Intranets provide both strategic and tactical advantages, including streamlining business processes, improving communications, enhancing collaboration and reducing the cost of information technology ownership” (DNI, 2007). Almost every department in a company, can benefit from the use of intranets. Intranet technologies include things like web browsers, e-mail, web-enabled databases, Java, streaming audio and video, and groupware, just to name a few. In today’s fast paced world, a company must be up to date, and effective at producing new information fast enough. There is a very competitive marketplace and if a company has a slow reaction to the changing trends or market conditions it could very well put a company at risk of losing business, market share and customers. In the following we will be discussing how Internet tools and technology can benefit Dirt Bikes’ employees, whether it is through communication of obtaining information more efficiently.
There are different departments within the company that we will be discussing but the first is sales and marketing. Within these specific departments, sales and marketing, intranets allow centralized publishing of product, service, and marketing information as well as availability to the company database. Intranets provide a way of communication and collaboration throughout both of these departments as well as other operating groups. For instance, sales and marketing employees as well as outside contractors, company partners, distributors and dealers would all have immediate access to company information they need. With these individuals or groups developing the ability to retrieve information results in higher productivity and reduced costs for Dirt Bikes’.
The next department that could benefit from the use of intranets with Dirt Bikes’ is human resources. HR use to keep...