WorkSpace will provide your company with the means to co-ordinate the activities of each of your branches, whether they may be geographically spread or run by different management practices. The information that you have access to may currently be restricted, for example, if different franchisees are running their businesses on different systems.   The clearer information generated through the implementation of WorkSpace will enable you to identify specific branches that are demonstrating ‘best practices’ for each factor that you deem important. WorkSpace will then give you the means with which to share these best practices between all other branches, strengthening the competitive advantage of your organisation as a whole. Your employees at branch level can share information such as latest news and events, with messages being posted on users’ homepages. This will allow you to improve the process by which information is circulated amongst groups of employees, and reduce the costs of transmitting information via paper-based methods.   To aid management, WorkSpace can provide your local, regional or national managers with a resource management function. Reports can also be generated on any information stored within WorkSpace, and can be viewed by the users that you permit access to this information.