by Craig Roth | June 20, 2011 | Comments Off
I visited 3 companies in New York City recently, and am taking this opportunity to share the advice I gave since I consider it generally applicable: #1: Forget about SharePoint – or any other collaboration technology – for a collaborative process that is already screwed up. This was an organization with questions about doing aggregation [...]
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by Craig Roth | June 15, 2011 | Comments Off
Since publishing my document “ITIL for SharePoint: Defining SharePoint as a Service Using ITIL Service Strategy”, I’ve been advocating deploying SharePoint as a set of business-focused services instead of a dump of capabilities (which is what you get with SharePoint out-of-the-box “OOTB” or lightly customized). Unfortunately, the capability dump is a more common approach due [...]
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by Craig Roth | May 12, 2011 | Comments Off
Are you looking for great advice on implementing SharePoint? From a neutral vantagepoint outside the SharePoint community; from people who look across many products, have perspectives broader than SharePoint, and don’t pull their punches when SharePoint deserves them? Then look no further than the the Gartner Catalyst Conference in San Diego! In addition to 3.5 [...]
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by Craig Roth | March 14, 2011 | Comments Off
Around 1990, an end user computing tool began making the rounds at the financial services firm where I worked. It did quick database and forms work, and a typical set of pros and cons emerged as central IT struggled with embracing it as a way to empower the business units (alternately worded as “get them [...]
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by Craig Roth | February 22, 2011 | Comments Off
In my last posting, “ What SharePoint Planners Can Learn From City Planners” I introduced the idea of city planning as a metaphor for applying high-level SharePoint planning to shape the organic growth that occurs in an end-user developed (“built”) environment. An enterprise wide deployment of Sharepoint is like a city in that it grows [...]
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by Craig Roth | February 18, 2011 | Comments Off
“The tendency of mankind to congregate in cities is a marked characteristic of modern times.” Thus begins Chapter 1 of “Plan of Chicago”, Daniel H. Burnham’s 1908 city planning classic. But if Burnham was still alive today he might be surprised how mankind now tends to congregate online instead of in cities – perhaps making [...]
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by Craig Roth | January 18, 2011 | Comments Off
Thelonious Monk’s "’Round Midnight" is to Jazz what governance presentations are to SharePoint: a standard. Every aspiring SharePoint speaker is expected to be able to play it on demand, and wants to add their personal styling to the tune. And the fact that it’s so popular makes it a standard to be judged by. A [...]
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by Craig Roth | November 8, 2010 | Comments Off
Applying more KM and records management discipline to SharePoint is generally a good thing. But if you apply more KM discipline to SharePoint, then what do you use for the faster-moving, tacit, undeveloped information that is left? One of Zeno’s paradoxes comes to mind. Zeno stated it like this But if it exists, each thing [...]
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by Craig Roth | October 6, 2010 | 1 Comment
“Driving Adoption” for SharePoint is a bad idea. There, I’ve said it. I’ve said it before too (see “’Driving adoption’ is a band aid for poor demand management”) using ITIL terminology. Now a new marketing book provides a term that may resonate better: Outside In strategy. In an article at Knowledge@Wharton (“’Outside In’ Strategy for [...]
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by Craig Roth | September 23, 2010 | 4 Comments
I’ve had three surveys on SharePoint cross my desk (well, e-mail inbox) in the past month. Most of them share the same questions about what SharePoint is being used for and whether they are on 2010 yet. I read them with interest to see if there are any wildly varying results or, barring that, to [...]
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