Barriers to End User Adoption of SharePoint – and How to Overcome Them

Guest Author: Clare Stone
Pentalogic Technology

It’s easy to deploy an application like SharePoint within an organization, the hard part is getting people to use it in a way which makes them more productive – this is the core issue addressed by the paper.

It has been demonstrated statistically that whilst use of SharePoint for file sharing at the work group or departmental level is widespread in organisations, deployments where usage of SharePoint is enterprise standard and embedded in core business processes, are far less common.

This paper explores some of the possible reasons for this, and should help organisations to achieve SharePoint deployments which leverage the full power of the application in relation to core business processes

Our free white paper draws on the experience of more than 50 SharePoint professionals from around the world in identifying and overcoming barriers to end user adoption of SharePoint, and achieving a meaningful and successful deployment.

Topics covered include:

• Knowledge and Understanding
• Culture and Inertia
• Training
• Roles and Responsibilities
• User Engagement

The paper looks at achieving an implementation of SharePoint which leverages the full functionality of SharePoint to add value to core business processes.

Free White Paper:

“Essential reading for anyone embarking on a SharePoint deployment”

What have your end user adoption experiences been?

Guest Author: Clare Stone
Pentalogic Technology

Clare is Marketing Manager for Pentalogic Technology: developers of SharePoint webparts designed with the end user in mind.  Clare started her career in qualitative research and has spent more than 20 years working in marketing in a wide variety of industries.  Pentalogic is her first foray into the world of software  – so in relation to SharePoint she identifies closely with her customers, as she is definitely not a techie, and very much an End User herself.