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Hi all We have all felt the pain of a meeting or workshop where no-one is engaged, the conversation is being dominated by the loudest or everyone is mired in a tangle of complexity and there is no sense of progress. Not only is it incredibly frustrating...
Filed under: Project Management, Collaboration, Strategy, SharePoint, Governance, Wicked Problems, Best Practices, Information Architecture, Conference, knowledge management, workshop, Process Improvement, Dialogue mapping, Issue Mapping, Speaking presentation, user engagement, shared understanding, Estimating, Facilitation, Human Process Management, Non Linear Process, Envisioning, systems thinking
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Hiya I just recorded the second video on the topic of powerful questions. These powerful questions are the result of the years I’ve spent dialogue mapping many different groups of people on many different problems. As time has gone on, I’ve learnt a lot...
Filed under: Project Management, Collaboration, Strategy, Governance, Wicked Problems, workshop, Process Improvement, Dialogue mapping, Issue Mapping, user engagement, shared understanding, Business Analysis, Facilitation, Non Linear Process, Envisioning, systems thinking
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Collaboration across borders is fundamental to business success, and many Fortune 500 companies appear to agree, as Microsoft reports that 70% of such companies use Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies for collaboration, business intelligence...
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Most information managers are back office-based. Our customers are externally facing. We build the arguments and the rationales that our colleagues use to close deals and secure work. Our marketing efforts are internal. Our resources tend to be in-house...
Filed under: Governance, Microsoft, platform, metadata, Enterprise Search, Google, Taxonomy, ibm, oracle, roles and responsibilities, bakeoff, ACL, vendor selection, pricing, proof of concept
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Although the focus of this post is to help understand some of the changes being made with SharePoint 2013 and how to deal with them, it is driven by a number of interesting perspectives I’ve seen online recently about SharePoint and its big push...
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Hi all One of the conversation areas in SharePoint life that is inevitably complex is that of records management since there are just as many differing opinions on records management as there are legal jurisdictions and different standards to choose from...
Filed under: planning, Strategy, SharePoint, Governance, Risk, Assurance, Records Management, Information Architecture, web2.0, knowledge management, Process Improvement, Seven Sigma, Dialogue mapping, Issue Mapping, user engagement
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Once upon a time there lived a rather round wizard named Hocklart who worked at the FogWorts school of witchcraft and wizardry. Hocklart was a very proud wizard, perhaps the proudest in all of FogWorts. His pride did not stem from being a great wizard...
Filed under: Project Management, Offbeat, Strategy, Governance, Risk, ISO17799/27001, Wicked Problems, Best Practices, Process Improvement, ISO9001, parable, cognitive bias, stoos, systems thinking, Heretics Guide
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SharePoint has, for the most part, been relegated to smaller solutions. Also known as “point solutions” that address a specific segment of the business. There is nothing wrong with this and it’s a great way to get in the door. Which...
Filed under: SharePoint, Governance, CRM, Community, lob, cloud, partner, Christian Buckley, erp, ecosystem, big data, BYOD, SCM, PLM
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Hi all *sigh* This post comes to you during my reality check of returning to work after the bliss of 1 month of vacation in New Zealand. After walking on a glacier, racing around in jetboats and relaxing in volcanic hot springs, the thought of writing...
Filed under: Project Management, Collaboration, Strategy, SharePoint, Governance, Wicked Problems, Analysis, Best Practices, social fragmentation, organisational culture, user engagement, shared understanding, Business Analysis, cognitive bias, Facilitation, Envisioning, Cloud compouting
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Hi and welcome to the latest exciting instalment in my epic series of posts on my confessions of a post SharePoint architect. I was motivated to write this series because the mild mannered shrinking violet known as Bjorn Furuknap wrote an insightful series...
Filed under: Project Management, planning, Strategy, SharePoint, Governance, Risk, Analysis, Best Practices, Assurance, knowledge management, ISO9001, user engagement, Business Analysis, Envisioning
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An interesting question was posted to the interwebs via Twitter. Someone was searching for information on governance for small to medium businesses (SMBs) -- specifically as it applies to SMBs, rather than large enterprises. My initial reaction was that...
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Hi all and welcome to the next exciting instalment of my confessions from my work as a SharePoint architect and beyond. This is the eighth post and my last for 2012, so I will get straight into it. To recap, along the way we have examined 5 f-laws and...
Filed under: planning, Strategy, SharePoint, Governance, Risk, Security, Analysis, Performance, Assurance, Dialogue mapping, shared understanding, Business Analysis
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If you look at the overall budget to implement a best practices SharePoint 2013 or 2010 implementation, is 5% of it around driving end users to actually use SharePoint? I was in a meeting the other day with a client (and this is something that I hear...
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Hi all and welcome back to my ever growing series which attempts to codify a lot of learning over a long period of time into something that I hope is readable, rigorous and is useful to anyone tasked with successful SharePoint project delivery. This is...
Filed under: Project Management, planning, Collaboration, Strategy, SharePoint, Governance, Wicked Problems, Analysis, Best Practices, shared understanding, Business Analysis, Facilitation, Envisioning
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Sometimes, otherwise intelligent people manage to do stupid things. Yesterday, I was guilty of being such a person; well, I consider myself to be intelligent. We are working on an information management project in SharePoint, and we decided that it was...
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