One by-product of a recent debate about email's compatibility or incompatibility with wikis is that we can begin to understand not only weaknesses as a medium of collaboration, but also its strengths.
Intranet CMSs naturally promote what I call 'management creep'. This is not meant to be a comment on the character of managers. Instead, I mean the tendency to convert high bandwidth communications into low bandwidth communications in the name of making things easier to manage.