I know SharePoint has a lot to offer and it can take companies time to make use of all it has to offer but 9 times out of 10, small, medium and large companies that I talk to don’t make any use of discussions.
I am looking for a sense of what’s going on with SharePoint today, across geographies, across industries, across SharePoint capability sets.
Fostering a culture of collaboration means much more than just educating professionals on what SharePoint can do and how it can be utilized to make their job easier.
People will only visit SharePoint and use it as a primary information source when the pain of accessing the information any other way is greater than accessing it through SharePoint.
Frequently evaluating your company’s collaboration maturity is a great way to determine where knowledge gaps exist, what facets require additional education and how to assist people to expand their use of SharePoint.
In similar fashion, the context of SharePoint must be communicated to your users in order for them to adopt it.
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.