Posts Tagged ‘Governance’

It’s been a busy couple of weeks here at the office.  Besides hopping from LA to NYC to Chicago to work with various and sundry eye-catching clients, we’ve been turning out essays on a couple of hot topics: ROI (Return On Investment) as provided by Enterprise Social Networks Governance in Yammer, specifically External Networks In […]

Governance is an essential part of any SharePoint deployment. Any organization that has tried to implement SharePoint has undoubtedly asked the question, “How do we effectively manage our SharePoint environment?” Governance is that answer.  Governance is a set of policies, procedures, roles, and responsibilities that control how your business teams and IT teams work together […]

Organizations choose SharePoint as an enterprise collaboration, productivity, insight and analysis platform in order to drive business value. If SharePoint is a lever, then governance directs the force placed on that lever to achieve maximum leverage. In this white paper, “The SharePoint Site Governance Lifecycle Model,” Perficient introduces the five stages of its SharePoint Governance […]

I just returned from the IBM Vision Conference in Orlando, Florida. I attended a session in every available timeslot from Monday morning to Wednesday afternoon and it was worth every single minute of my time! Although there were too many sessions and presenters to mention, here are my “top picks”: Designing Solutions with IBM Cognos […]

As the excitement surrounding SharePoint 2013 increases, those of us who make a living helping companies deploy SharePoint are beginning to consider the Governance implications of the latest release. The need for SharePoint Governance has, of course, not gone away with the new version (there is still no Governance “check box”).  Quite the contrary, the […]

Summer, as defined by school schedules, has generally come to an end and that means we kick start our IBM Connection Bootcamp series.  This fall we will be continuing on our trusty format of delivering business-focused bootcamps to help business and IT leaders build use cases, define ROI scenarios and have a little fun while […]

Steve Pogrebivsky has a nice article out on 5 critical steps to SharePoint architecture planning.  I like his general take on it because you mention governance in the SharePoint world and before you know it you are down in the weeds defining all sorts of collections, metadata, content definitions and the like.  It’s a different […]

Rick Taylor, one of our well published and sought after Sharepoint gurus, has a two minute video out on Sharepoint governance.  He’s usually so busy working and presenting he doesn’t get much time to blog.  I thought I’d point this out.

Sometimes Portal Technology can frustrate both technical and business users because it seems so complicated.  The reality is that it is fairly complicated.  That’s what happens when the portal itself has portal administration, theme, documents, web content, personalization, security and a bunch of other services.  The following examples come from two customers who made mistakes […]

Sometimes Portal Technology can frustrate both technical and business users because it seems so complicated.  The reality is that it is fairly complicated.  That’s what happens when the portal itself has portal administration, theme, documents, web content, personalization, security and a bunch of other services.  The following examples come from two customers who made mistakes […]

Glenn Kline and I recently presented a session on some classic portal mistakes we’ve seen over the years.  We’ve decided to parse out the 12 mistakes into 12 days of posts on the topic.  Today, marks the first of these posts. What Happened I was working on a fairly large portal project at an insurance […]

Glenn Kline and I recently presented a session on some classic portal mistakes we’ve seen over the years.  We’ve decided to parse out the 12 mistakes into 12 days of posts on the topic.  Today, marks the first of these posts. What Happened I was working on a fairly large portal project at an insurance […]