How an intranet smoothed workflow & communications
Hynds, a family owned concrete pipe manufacturer with hundreds of staff across 40 locations, needed ready access to complex data.
Ready access to information and efficient internal systems set successful organisations apart from the also-rans. When a business is dispersed over a wide area, and has a complex collection of products, operating divisions and services, information flows are made all the harder.
Integrated communications with Lotus Notes
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Lotus Notes can turn a far-flung organisation into an integrated whole, as at Hynds Group, a family-owned enterprise of several hundred employees in 40 locations, working within seven different businesses.
Hynds' Notes-based intranet ensures staff are up to date with company news, have seamless access to business applications and can work through many company processes without printing a page or exchanging numerous emails.
"Important documents on all kinds of policy and procedures are now shared centrally and these documents are kept under strict version control so everybody is using the right forms for HR procedures, the product library, sales and marketing documents, job applications, and so on," says group IT manager Vijean Naidoo.
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