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Using SharePoint without basic governing rules can only lead to chaos.
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Shifting to a digital workplace is as much about a cultural change as it is about technology.
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The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) may be facing one of its biggest challenges yet.
With thousands of employees scattered across 28 countries, the high-security, intergovernmental organization is feeling the strain of siloed departments and increased turnover, and has turned to enterprise social collaboration for help.
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What are the differences between SharePoint governance in online versus on-premises deployments? This question comes up regularly at conferences and events -- administrators and business owners alike want to know if their organizations need to change their administration activities for the cloud.
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Let’s start at the beginning … What is a governance plan? In the IT world a governance plan is typically a set of roles, responsibilities, procedures, policies, etc., that an organization can build around the usage of a particular piece of technology.
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It is very common for SharePoint projects to be run by IT. The focus will then become technical functions and features instead of business value. It is therefore important that the business is running the project to make sure it solves business needs and gets ROI in the end.
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You can't run a SharePoint project and expect it to be maintenance free. You need to have an organization, both during and after the project.
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Continuing my high level SharePoint business governance strategy series, today we are looking at methods of managing governance documents to ensure that information is easily accessible to all, aiding in communication of and adherence to governance rules. You are probably hoping to find some useful templates here, but no.
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Many portals, intranets, public websites and other solutions fail to deliver objectives and ROI within 6 months to a year because no one governs the solution. This series will share my high level SharePoint Business Governance strategy to help your company turn those success rates around.
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According to the initial results of a Microsoft SharePoint governance survey commissioned by Axceler, more than two-thirds of the respondents consider SharePoint governance to be extremely or very important to their organizations. Yet nearly half of those same respondents confirmed that SharePoint governance policies do not exist or are undefined.
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In yesterday's article, “The Evolution of SharePoint Project Governance: Lessons Learned,” we explored the differences between SharePoint governance of the past and today’s holistic view of SharePoint governance as it relates to organizational goals and business needs.
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SharePoint is crack and Microsoft is the pusher. Yeah, I said it. Listen up now, I’ll say it again. SharePoint is crack and Microsoft is the pusher! The other week, I wrote an article that stirred up a bunch of CMS, DMS, ECMS and other content professionals enough to make
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This is the fourth article in a series discussing my Art Of SharePoint Success framework which consists of four key elements: Governance, Strategy, Architecture and Transition. Last month I began to explore the murky, misunderstood, often debated subject of SharePoint Governance by giving my view on what it is, and
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In his keynote address at the SharePoint Conference in Anaheim, CA earlier this month, Microsoft CVP Jeff Teper, who many in the community refer to as the "Godfather of SharePoint," stated that governance "is not an issue in SharePoint 2010.
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