But are businesses prepared to deal with the governance that is needed to meet their business requirements? Do they understand the risk?
Whether you’re capturing Business Requirements or developing a Request for Proposal, most of us add everything we can think of when asking for what we want in an application or business solution
SharePoint has the ability to meet many business requirements but quite often it falls short...What were your business requirements for SharePoint at its’ launch?
Many organizations attempt to meet this challenge my applying technology without properly identifying the business requirements and problems to be addressed eventually coming to the realization that technology for the sake of technology does not work and the result of their efforts to eliminate the digital landfill is the creation of a digital dumpster where finding information is still a major challenge. In my view, one of the first places to start is to identify business requirements, issues and consequences related to your current content management practices before trying to apply technology to solve the problem
Likewise, more formal concepts are applied at the knowledge and even the collaboration layers, driven by: Governance boards Business requirements Knowledge and organisational Vision
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“A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.” – Albert Einstein One of the main takeaways from this past weekend’s SharePoint Saturday The Conference in Annandale, VA is the discussion of SharePoint for SharePoint’s sake. Many...
1 Comment - Trial and error does ot always work, see: http://jhagmann.twoday.net/stories/97003434/ Records mgmt is a business requirement and IT has no intrinsic value
And: Your information strategy, architecture, and governance provide the comprehensive set of business requirements that should define your IT solutions
The Information Professional should also be able to describe how her platform can be used to solve business requirements in business terms. The Customer’s Information Professional should be able to take his business requirements and correlate those to generally accepted industry terms for the technology
When I asked if the specific requirements were identified and discussed, the typical response is that a discussion took place to inform the supplier of what they perceived was the problem and when pushed, further agreed that no assessment had been conducted to identify the real business requirements from the perceived. In my view this is a common scenario that can and should be avoided and while I do not hold the consumer fully responsible in this – the suppliers should work with the consumer to take time and fully identify the real business requirement so the proper tools and services can be selected – I do hold them accountable for providing the real requirements and conducting proper due diligence if they expect successful results
By making the right investment into an enterprise capture platform that is flexible and able to adapt to business requirements, IT sees this as an opportunity to be more responsive to the needs of the various business units
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