Aligning SharePoint to Business Goals:
Don't Just Say It, Do It

It is common to hear consultants wax lyrical about how we have to align SharePoint to "business goals". While this and other popular clichés like "obtain executive support" or "obtain user buy-in" are easy to say, in practice they are much harder to do. After all, if this was not the case, then business goal alignment would not be near the top of the list for SharePoint challenges.

Deploying Microsoft SharePoint is about alignment, adaption and adoption (all that “people stuff” that geeks suck at). Current SharePoint governance documentation abounds in service delivery, but just because your system is rock solid, stable, well documented and processes defined, there is absolutely no guarantee of success. In fact, the secret sauce to a successful SharePoint project is an area that governance documentation barely touches. To find what’s in this secret sauce, come and be part of this discussion!

Rather than just tell you what is wrong with the world, in this session, Paul Culmsee and Michal Pisarek will offer practical guidance, tools and methods on how to tame this complex problem. They will demonstrate how to ensure that all aspects of SharePoint delivery clearly align to organizational aspirations, ensure all stakeholder needs are considered and at the same time, create the understanding and commitment via an inclusive, collaborative approach.

Session topics:

• Why aligning organizational goals is hard
• Why SharePoint belongs to a class of problems that are inherently hard to solve
• Why users have trouble articulating what they really want
• The reality of how we actually solve new or novel problems
• How to avoid chasing platitudes and tap into the wisdom of crowds
• The one best practice you need before you consider any other best practice
• Field tests, practical tools and techniques

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How to Develop and Enforce SharePoint Governance Policies through Services and Software

One of the keys to SharePoint's popularity is its ease of use - users can create collaborative websites in less than 5 minutes. But, because it is so easy to build new sites, SharePoint systems can grow quickly and, if not administered wisely, become unwieldy.

Organizations increasingly need SharePoint governance, especially as SharePoint becomes an enterprise collaboration platform and falls under corporate IT governance requirements. There are many parts to a SharePoint governance equation; two of the most important are the software and the services.

On this webinar you will see how Axceler’s ControlPoint governance and administration software and Jornata’s AutoPilot managed service offering work together to give SharePoint administrators a standardized governance model and maintenance plan for SharePoint deployments, including proactive support for farms, information management and application policies.

View this webinar to learn:

• Best practices for establishing a SharePoint governance model including policies and farm-wide application control
• How to establish a standardized governance model & maintenance plan for SharePoint deployments
• How to enforce governance policies automatically with ControlPoint
• How to identify SharePoint governance violations
• How to manage SharePoint security
• And more

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How to Improve Your SharePoint Governance with Microsoft's Chris Bortlik

Join Microsoft SharePoint Technology Specialist Chris Bortlik to learn how to take your SharePoint governance to the next level.

Watch this webcast and learn:

• Why governance is important
• Why you need a solid SharePoint information architecture 
• Why it’s important to consider inheritance 
• How to use content types 
• How retention policies can be applied
• The concepts around SharePoint security management (Activity Directory groups, SharePoint groups)
•  How Microsoft enables self-service and information classification for collaboration sites 

You’ll also see a short demonstration of the “Best SharePoint Product” of 2011 and the Community Choice award-winner, Axceler ControlPoint.  ControlPoint can help you enforce your SharePoint governance policies and gives you the ability to explore, protect, analyze and control SharePoint.

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