A couple of recently published articles by prominent individuals in the SharePoint community – Chris Riley and Christian Buckley – remind me of an important feature of SharePoint plans more likely to succeed. These plans treat the challenge of user adoption as a chronic condition requiring continuous effort. Riley’s article is Why I Left ECM. […]
Understanding the Role of Taxonomy in a High Value ECM Solution Built on SharePoint
This blog includes a number of posts on the role played by a taxonomy, specific to an organization, in a value proposition for SharePoint 2010 and/or 2013. One can argue a taxonomy must be present to provide a foundation for all of the value delivered by SharePoint components — the Term Store and Managed Metadata […]
An Example of Why It Makes Sense to Build a Governance Plan Prior to Embarking on a SharePoint Implementation
The AIIM® Organization publishes a short briefing paper, titled SharePoint for Collaboration: 3 Steps to Dynamic Co-Authoring. The briefing paper is authored by Bob Larrivee, AIIM Director/Industry Advisor, and Head of Research. The topic is a description of a computer process built with SharePoint 2010 and Microsoft Office 2010 to produce a co-authoring method for […]
A Realistic Approach to Content Governance with SharePoint 2013
In a post to AIIM’s Expert Blogs titled Enterprise Content Governance 2014: A SharePoint Point of View, Mike Alsup, Senior Vice President at Gimmal Group draws a quick sketch of what I would characterize as a realistic view of the components of a truly useful content governance plan for an ECM effort for a larger […]
Are SharePoint Social Features a Useful Method of Motivating Users to Increase Adoption?
As a report titled SharePoint 2013 Clouding the Issues, which was published by AIIM, points out, despite the popularity of Enterprise Content Management (ECM) and Document Management (DM) applications for large organizations using SharePoint, 26% of respondents reported very low usage of the platform by so-called “active users” — only 1 in 5 users in […]
Enterprise Content Management and Document Management Applications for Sharepoint are Popular With Larger Organizations
SharePoint-Videos offers several sets of video training content on key components of an Enterprise Content Management (ECM) or Document Management (DM) application for SharePoint 2007, 2010, and 2013. These sets include: SharePoint 2013: Enterprise Forms SharePoint 2013: Records Management
Low Levels of User Adoption Continue to Tarnish the Success of SharePoint Implementations by Large Communities of Users
According to content posted on the Titus, Inc. web site, the report on SharePoint published in September of 2013 by AIIM, SharePoint 2013 – Clouding the Issues indicates low levels of adoption as a major hindrance to the success of SharePoint implementations for large communities of users. If you have a stake in the success […]