In response, business users have moved in droves to whatever content cloud service they could find that seems to address their needs. In a study earlier this year by CryptZone, a SharePoint security vendor, 45% of business users admitted to taking customer-sensitive content out of SharePoint to do their jobs to put on consumer file sharing systems and thumb drives to just to work at home and share with those on their projects
I’m not saying that the “T” is not important, but the “B” (“Business”) is also important. There needs to be more focus on the communication with the business
From the characteristics and activities he is able to build a home custom tailored to address his clients needs. You can have the best building materials in the world, but if you don't architect your solution to meet the needs of its audience - the quality of the materials is irrelevant
When the product team needs to share some forward-thinking information on an upcoming release, they go to great length to bridle the level of anticipation, wary of giving out too much information before the product is ready to go to market
Ray Wang talks business needs and how ubiquitous, and transformative, mobile tools are and will become...Wang: The fluffiness comes from too many folks who don't understand the needs of an enterprise
I don’t think it is a problem with the tools as such, more one of governance, culture, and common sense. Everything needs to be managed, but to a greater or lesser extend. Some information needs incredibly tight control; other information just needs a sell-by date on it
It will also make it cost effective to find a record in the instance of e-discovery or if another business unit needs it for research and reference
But because its such a massive platform (Note: I call it a platform, its not a ready-built solution, you need to build something awesome with it ok?) it needs a load of ‘nails’ to really hold it together in the winds of business and organisational change!
A good example here is when a unit “needs” to keep both the paper and the electronic copy because they honestly believe that’s what the law requires
Within the context of SharePoint are the building blocks of an enterprise social informatics shift, helping you to shape your environment to meet the needs of your evolving end users: metadata and taxonomy, service applications, social computing features, and the first steps into mobile
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