How to Kill Innovation in SharePoint in 5 Easy StepsCHRISTIAN BUCKLEY
CHIEF EVANGELIST @METALOGIX
Christian BuckleyChief Evangelist & SharePoint MVP
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How to Kill Innovation in SharePoint in 5 Easy Steps
What I’ll cover today:
• How to break the spirit of your end users
• How to expand the process lawlessness
• How to ensure nobody can ever find their content ever again
• Which key trends and best practices to completely and utterly ignore
Do you recognize these business problems?• Adoption issues• Weak usage of taxonomy
and templates• Poor collaboration• Slow to realize
benefits of SharePoint investments
Awesome!
The plan is working.
If total failure is your goal, then please proceed.
industry-tested techniques for ending any chance that SharePoint will ever be successful
5
1. Skip the information architecture.
Of course, if you skip the information architecture…
You won’t understanding how the platform works
You won’t know how sites should be structured
You will not be familiar with the many templates, content types, taxonomy, and navigation
You won’t be able to help your users take advantage of the rich features within
You will struggle to accomplish the basic tasks
Search will just flat out suck
2. Deploy it, and walk away.
The problem with just deploying SharePoint and walking away…
The system will not actually meet the requirements of your users
As your users get more sophisticated on the platform, the platform will not grow with them
End users will quickly outgrow a static platform, and move onto other tools – which will most likely be unsecure, unsupported, and you’ll eventually be tasked with cleaning it up
3. Don't plan for governance
Ignoring governance sounds great, but then…
There will be no early detection for long-term problems
You’ll have no visibility into how the system is being used
Teams will have differing standards, if they follow standards at all
Collaboration will break down into old team and divisional siloes, and the system will lose its inherent value
4. Refuse to recognize the power of social computing
Of course, if you think social is just a passing fad…
Then you’ll miss out on another layer of the search experience
You won’t be able to put content and ideas (and innovation) in context to the running dialog within your organization
You will severely limit your ability to find content and ideas outside of the exact search terms you input
You’ll find it more difficult to find the right people and expertise
Your end users will increasingly disengage
5. Don't have a user adoption strategy.
If you don’t have a plan for getting your users to saddle up…
They won’t use it
You’ll spend a bunch of money on a very expensive file share (regardless of whether its on premises or in the cloud)
They’ll go find something else – and you can bet that it’ll be outside of your control
But seriously…
Just remember….
• SharePoint is a journey, not a race
• You're not going to get everything right all the time
• Listen to your users
• Be authentic about what you know, what you have permissions (and budget) to do for your end users
• Reach out to the expert community for advice and best practices