Does a successful campaign to persuade enterprise users to adopt Office 365 depend on a new type of internal IT organization? Industry experts like Dux Raymond Sy, a SharePoint MVP, and Cyrielle Simeone, a Product Manager at Microsoft believe this transformation is a necessary, highly positive step. Dux and Cyrielle present a case for why any enterprise IT organization should consider re-inventing itself to better meet the needs of the community of computing users it serves in a webcast recording titled Beyond Deployment: How IT Can Inspire, Motivate, and Drive Sustainable Adoption. A couple of recent, previous posts to this…
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A Method of Measuring Performance of an Adoption Plan is also an Essential Component of the Plan Itself
For readers generally unfamiliar with IT project planning, it may seem curious to learn the role played by a method of measuring performance of the plan, itself. Performance measurement is actually a core component of the plan itself. Cyrielle Simeone, a Product Manager at Microsoft and Dux Raymond Sy include “Measure and Grow” as the last of four pillars of a plan to build, support, and sustain user adoption of computing on a SharePoint Online, Office 365 computing platform. This plan architecture is included in a webcast titled Beyond Deployment: How IT Can Inspire, Motivate, and Drive Sustainable Adoption. The…
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A Brief Glimpse of How to Use the Expanded Newsfeeds Available with SharePoint 2013
In a video tutorial titled Enterprise Social Capabilities, Dux Raymond Sy, SharePoint MVP, PMP and a widely acknowledged subject matter expert on SharePoint, recounts an interaction with an unnamed contact, probably from an IT organization, on the topic of the “social” features of SharePoint and whether or not it makes sense to permit end users to implement these features. Dux quotes the contact as stating ” . . . we don’t want them posting pictures of their cats on our intranet”. Clearly IT organizations are concerned about the “social” features of computing platforms, including SharePoint. But the “facebook generation” is…
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Using SharePoint’s Project Management Features to Encourage Collaboration within an Organization
In December, 2013, SharePoint-Videos.com published a set of video tutorials on Microsoft® Project 2013 authored by Dux Raymond Sy. This set, titled SharePoint 2013: Project 2013, presents some techniques organizations in need of a method of driving organizational collaboration should consider implementing. Healthy content between internal silos certainly has its place for organizations looking to stimulate rapid growth. But, often, when these same organizations achieve a targeted objective, managing a transition to more collaborative activity between silos can be challenging. It makes sense to simply consider implementing SharePoint 2013 as a method of underpinning more productive cross department activity. After…
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