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Revealed: A Look At Google's Corporate Intranet
Here is the inside scoop from Philipp Lenssen and Tony Ruscoe at Google Blogoscoped:
Moma looks a lot like, you guessed it, Google. Here is a picture of Moma's home page. And here is a picture what the bloggers claim is an employee search on Moma. Go here for a photo of the Moma search screen:
There is plenty in these quotes and images that CIOs and IT managers need to take note of. While lots of companies talk about transparency at work, Google has actually incorporated full performance transparency into its intranet. Think about that -- engineers responsible for making products better are exposed to their colleagues through the main work screen everyone sees every day. Another thing to note: Moma is basically just Google's products reserved up for internal use. But, thanks to an internal IT system that appears to actually make collaboration work, employees see their colleagues' performance and they have a way to make their internal tools better, right in front of their managers' and co-workers' eyes. Lots of companies talk about eating their own dog food, but Moma looks like the real deal: a software dog food buffet. Since these products seem like direct extensions of Google's own applications, there appears to be continuity between making Google's external products better and making Google's internal operations more efficient. Imagine that, company systems designed to make products work better so that everyone wins. If you are still looking for reasons why Google continues to grow as quickly as it does, look no further. What do you think? Have any of you out there actually used Moma? If so, what do you think? « Microsoft Reportedly Considering SAP Acquisition | Main | The CIO And IP » |
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