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What Does Culture

Have to Do With it?

It’s a Matter of How You Look at it

What’s Your View From the

Corner Like?

Look At The Case

And 2010...

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SharePoint Identity Crisis...

The Questions the Business Super End User Need to Ask of

their Organizations and of SharePoint

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SharePoint in 20 words or less

• Better yet 140 characters and I’ll spot you # (hash marks)

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CMS Watch ‘09 SharePoint Report

SharePoint is not a product that can or should be “turned over to business” in a tactic conspiracy between IT and business units so they don’t bother each other.

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Who are you? Business Super User– Think like the biz– Talk like IT– Understand SharePoint – Act on it

Sparta

or

Athens?

Sparta

Athens

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What is the change culture like?

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What do we stand to gain?

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Who are the players?

Remember you know your organization better than anyone else.

What language does SharePoint speak?

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Be a translator!

• Learn:– Microsoft-ish, – Business terminology– SharePoint-ish?

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IT

Business Needs

SharePoint

Exactly What Kind of SharePoint Are We Talking Here?

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Follow the Licensing

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Platform?

or

Product

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Grab & Go

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Start off being selfish

Stay very close to the OOTB solutions at first

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Doesn't mean the box can’t fit your needs

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Good tools

• Notes and step guides• Blog sphere• Twitter• Screen Capture Software:

– Captivate or Camtasia

• Project Management basics

What deciders want to hear or see

• Governance

• Notification automation – Alerts and workflows

• Project Management terminology and concepts

• Have a minor branding solution ready to go

• Get multi-media on your site

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Getting Buy in from End Users

• Don’t tell people what SharePoint is tell them

what your site is !

• Be ready to explain and show basic navigation, over and over again.

• Translate SharePoint-ish

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More good ideas

• Build up a repository of content & rotate highlighting them– Interview blog posts (Parts 1-3)– Existing help tutorials, glossaries, procedures– HR or New Hire forms, docs, compliance

trainings– Look to replace existing solutions:

• LMS & Newsletters

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Being SharePoint’s Corner

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I just put the reflexes

in the proper direction.

Angelo Dundee

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Web 2.0 Case

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Transform work environment by connecting employees and enabling an environment for increased productivity and

transparency through enhanced social communication and collaboration.

Focus +Communication

Collaboration

Innovation

Productivity

Governance

EnablersBusiness Needs

People

Web 2.0 Trends

Strategy

Technology

= Business ValueDiscover & connect with biz & IT

Share tacit knowledgeCapture organic growth

Organizational transparencyBroad participation

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Result

Infrastructure was not addressed and bugs between native SharePoint and the 3rd Party add-ons

began to pile up

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Political Landscape

Org’s Culture

Easy SharePoint Wins

IT players

Business Players

OOTB Solutions

Blog sphere

3rd Party Vendors

End User Analysis

Governance

Support Tools

SharePoint-ish

Taxonomy

Self Sufficiency

The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses - behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the

road, long before I dance under those lights.

Muhammad Ali

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