Nothing More – Nothing Less…
Whilst SharePoint 2010 is more intuitive than previous versions, mainly due to emulating the Office 2010 interface, it is still a new environment that users need to get comfortable with. In many cases how we expect users to transition users across to SharePoint is not considered and typically (because it is an IT managed change) a project ends when the final team site has been created.
It goes something like this…. Continue reading ‘It is this thing called SharePoint!’
I have been training for many years and never does it fail to impress me how much people want to learn and understand about the subject being taught. Well most people… sometime my students are dragged into class by their managers and have a week of learning when all they can think about is the work sitting on their desks when they get back 
Continue reading ‘Effective SharePoint training’
Has your project changed the shape of your business
Training has always been a key attribute of a business change program. This is mainly due to the fact that change is based on new processes or new IT applications and systems being released.
With any SharePoint project the training and business change requirements at the end should not be ignored or treated as a ‘nice to have’ if you want SharePoint to change the shape of your business. Continue reading ‘SharePoint the shape changer’
I recently had to outline for a client the steps they needed to take to move from a solutions driven Information strategy to a governance driven Information strategy. The objective was to consider how this apparent low-priority set of tasks could in the longer term mean cost efficient management of company data and even today save resource time by reducing the time to find the most relevant data.
The neutralised report is attached which I will hope might assist you in fleshing out your Information Management plans. Open here Short White Paper on Information Management
On Monday I had dinner with my Son and Daughter for Christmas and she had some new pictures of my Grandson on her Samsung Galaxy. Gimme Gimme I said and she proceeded to enable bluetooth and to send them to my new HD7 phone running Microsoft Phone 7 system. It would not work whilst transferring them to my sons phone worked without a hitch.
For an instant I was disappointed but then thought of the great smooth interface the phone has, the very cool way it allows me to manage my business and communications. Regardless of the press comments I love this phone.
Now don’t get me wrong, I would love to get hold of the game I played on the I-Phone that allowed me to shoot helicopters whilst spinning around trying to find them or be a sniper on a tall building saving the president, just two of the cool games I have experienced on an I-Phone… but the phone to me is about keeping in touch with business, family and friends which this phone does in style.
Yes OK I would like to cut and paste and the send button is too close to the delete button when messaging in landscape but nothing is perfect and this is the first release.
In short if you are in business and communicating with people is key then go with a phone that is built for business… in my mind the Windows Phone 7 does just that simply, with style and very efficiently.
Can’t wait for step two
There are people much better than me at following the blogs and internet traffic on SharePoint and Office 20-10 (to be pronounced, Twenty Ten) but whilst most of the detailed SharePoint information is due to be released at SharePoint Conference in October my reading of the office 2010 information is starting to strongly hint at some real collaboration functionality between these two ‘joined at the hip’ products.
Continue reading ‘Implementation of SharePoint 20-10 might have got easier’
Steve looks at the problems of Data Storage and Knowledge Relativity that could be a solution for managing corporate data and saving back-up and storage Budgets.
The problem that most people face is that they don’t actually know what knowledge is, they have a great idea of what information is, organisations have Terabytes of it sitting on hard-drives costing money to support and protect. So how does one select the bytes that are knowledge and those that are not? The answer is relativity to the data… but let’s gets back to that later.