How to Kill Innovation in SharePoint in 5 Easy Steps

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

Thank you!

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