Understanding the Disconnect Between Collaboration Tools and Business Goals

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An exploration into the gap between strategy and business requirements, and how a shared understanding of what is to be delivered is the key to success with enterprise collaboration. This presentation shares data from Axceler's Governance Maturity Benchmark survey and analysis, and outlines a plan for strengthening your organization's governance planning efforts.

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Understanding the Disconnect Between Collaboration Tools and Business GoalsChristian BuckleyDirector of Product Evangelism, Axceler

Understanding the Disconnect Between Collaboration Tools and Business Goals

What I’ll cover today:

• The gap between strategy and requirements

• The importance of building a “shared understanding”

• Governance Maturity Benchmark Survey

• When is the right time to focus on governance?

AboutChristian Buckley, Director of Product Evangelism at Axceler

• Microsoft MVP for SharePoint Server

• Prior to Axceler, worked for Microsoft, part of the Microsoft Managed Services team (now Office365-Dedicated) and worked as a consultant in the areas of software, supply chain, grid technology, and collaboration

• Co-founded and sold a software company to Rational Software. At E2open, helped design, build, and deploy a SharePoint-like collaboration platform (Collaboration Manager), onboarding numerous high-tech manufacturing companies, including Hitachi, Matsushita, Cisco, and Seagate

• Co-authored ‘Microsoft SharePoint 2010: Creating and Implementing Real-World Projects’ link (MS Press, March 2012) and 3 books on software configuration management.

• Twitter: @buckleyplanet Blog: buckleyplanet.com Email: cbuck@axceler.com

Get the Book

Published 2012 by Microsoft PressOrder your copy at http://oreil.ly/qC4loT

Tackle 10 common business problems with proven SharePoint solutions:• Set up a help desk solution to track service

requests

• Build a modest project management system

• Design a scheduling system to manage resources

• Create a site to support geographically dispersed teams

• Implement a course registration system

• Build a learning center with training classes and resources

• Design a team blog platform to review content

• Create a process to coordinate RFP responses

• Set up a FAQ system to help users find answers quickly

• Implement a cost-effective contact management system

Axceler Overview

Improving Collaboration since 2007• Mission: To enable enterprises to simplify, optimize, and

secure their collaborative platforms• Delivered award-winning administration and migration

software since 1994, for SharePoint since 2007• Over 3,000 global customers

Dramatically improve the management of SharePoint• Innovative products that improve security, scalability,

reliability, “deployability”• Making IT more effective and efficient and lower the total

cost of ownership

Focus on solving specific SharePoint problems (Administration & Migration)• Coach enterprises on SharePoint best practices• Give administrators the most innovative tools available• Anticipate customers’ needs• Deliver best of breed offerings• Stay in lock step with SharePoint development and market trends

StrategyBusiness Requirements

Why does SharePoint governance matter?

The Business Matters

SharePointDoesn’tMatter

Business Need Service

GOVERNANCE

Governance is the set of policies, roles, responsibilities, and processes that guide, direct, and control how an organization's business divisions and IT teams cooperate to achieve business goals.

Where are we?

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How do we align our service tobusiness need?

Identify compliance requirements

Map requirements to SharePoint functionality

Make the difficult decisions

Improve operations management

Business Need Service

GOVERNANCE

When is the right time to talk about governance?

“It Depends”

New Deployments

Define the Business Need

Question Identifies

What are we trying to achieve? Outcomes

Why does it matter? Business Value

To whom does it matter? Politics

How do we know it worked? Metrics

What could go wrong? Risk

Migrations

In Motion

On The Wrong Track

Derailed Project

The New World Order

On-PremCloudHybrid

Are you asking the right questions?

Get the right people to the

table

Ask the right questions

Be ready to compromise

Agree to costs and benefits,

risks and rewards

Assign accountability

Move forward

Online Resources

SharePoint Governance Maturity Benchmark (Whitepaper)

ESPC Community ‘Governance Rules!’ series (on-demand webinars)

Governance Should Begin with your Migration [webinar and article]Why Permissions Drive your Governance Strategy [webinar and article]Risk Management in SharePoint Governance [webinar and article]The Role of Reporting in Governance [webinar and article]What Governance Looks Like in the Cloud [webinar and article]

Contact me

Order your copy at http://oreil.ly/qC4loT

Christian Buckleycbuck@axceler.com @buckleyplanetwww.Axceler.comhttp://tiny.cc/buckleypresentationshttp://tiny.cc/buckleybloghttp://tiny.cc/buckleybookhttp://tiny.cc/buckleygovernance4hybrid

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