Jakob Nielsen, em "10 Best Intranet Designs of 2001"
Intranet as Collaboration and Communication Tool
We saw a greatly increased emphasis on the intranet as a collaboration tool that lets employees exchange information through discussion groups and other features. The intranets also emphasize communication by encouraging departments to post news and other information of interest to different groups.
In the past, people without specific technical skills often found it very difficult to post information on intranets. Several of our top 10 projects introduced easier ways to let employees contribute.
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Content Management
One of the key ways to make it easier for average employees to contribute to the intranet is to use a good content management system (CMS). Instead of having everybody design their own web pages, a CMS handles the mechanics of posting and lets people focus on their content and message.
In addition to making collaboration easier, these solutions also enforce design standards and thus enhance user-interface consistency and reduce confusion and training costs. If everyone has to design and build their own pages, you can be sure that the pages will be very different and confusing. Plus, they'll often be poorly designed, since most employees don't know much about designing for online interactive media.