Product Review

When I started with SharePoint I thought it was a ‘build it and they will come’ type of product. I could not have been more wrong. SharePoint suffers from being amazingly complex and capable at doing many things well. Unfortunately, SharePoint is not something that IT Departments deploy well. IT focuses on the technical back-end systems that SharePoint runs upon rather than the business uses of why they are deploying SharePoint within their organization.

As I have found in my many years as a SharePoint consultant, SharePoint is all about user adoption. The best technical SharePoint implementation in the world simply won’t be used and leveraged if user adoption is not focused upon and if users are not made to feel comfortable that the software will solve their business problem.

In "8 Things You Must Do to Drive SharePoint Collaboration", I discuss the 8 most common things you must do to get SharePoint adoption within your organization. While these tips are likely obvious to some, it is simply the case that most organizations do not do them. In my years as a SharePoint consultant, I've seen the good, bad and the ugly of SharePoint implementations and have written this eBook to help you avoid the most common pitfalls.

You will read about:

* Focusing on SharePoint's Flexibility, Allowing for Rapid Improvements
* Educating on the Tool
* Communicating the Context of SharePoint
* Rating your Organization's Collaboration Maturity
* Giving People a Reason to Visit
* Fostering a Culture of Collaboration
* Defining what Collaboration Looks Like
* Implementing SharePoint 'In the Flow' of Business