SharePoint Governance is the collection of roles and responsibilities, policies and procedures that are used to direct, guide and control the behavior of SharePoint so as to achieve your business goals
Implementing ERM functionality in SharePoint and other solutions is not simply installing the computer platform or system. Records management instruments and discipline, and Information Governance, are required. Information Governance is concerned with defining accountability for an organization’s information assets. If Governance is implemented properly – that is, if the there is GOOD governance - the organization’s information management should be compliant with any relevant legislation or regulations
Governance -- you can't come within a custom webpart of a SharePoint best practice webinar without the presenter drumming the governance refrain into every PMO ("program management office") slide. Problem is, SharePoint teams get performance reviews around lots of critical success factors. Governance ain't one of them
We have been working with many large organizations lately trying to figure out what is happening in the markets for SharePoint and multi-repository content governance
My goal in this blog entry is to share some of what I have observed in the last six months about SharePoint and the achievement of enterprise content governance in a multi-repository world
By accident or by design, I’ve managed to steer clear of MS SharePoint (SP) centric Enterprise Content Management (ECM) deployments until a few weeks ago
Keeping all the elements in check, aka Applying Governance , is going to be more and more critical and will involve more and more SharePoint...Governance is one of the three most overused words in the SharePoint ecosystem
You have probably been flooded with external sources telling you what SharePoint Governance really is and I am here to state mine and my SharePoint Consulting organization, EPC Group’s , definitive and believe only true way to implement Global Intranet Governance with a forward looking roadmap to match
Whichever way you look at it, SharePoint is a fact of life..."Dealing with it” could mean telling your users and/or executives that free is not always free or cheap; or implementing best practices in a planned SharePoint roll out
I am still amazed that so many folks feel there is no need for an “official” governance practice when we have so much technology to handle all of our needs. I know this sounds like I am an old fogey and perhaps I am, but the plain fact is that without governance, business organizations are at risk and dependence on technology alone is not the total answer