A common challenge when implementing SharePoint is clearly defining why the technology is being rolled out in the first place. In order to achieve success, a clear definition and understanding of the business value SharePoint brings to your organization is necessary. This white paper walks through the process of assessing and prioritizing business needs and properly developing requirements for SharePoint projects.
About the Author: Dux Raymond Sy is a managing partner of Innovative-e, a SharePoint MVP, and author of
SharePoint for Project Management.
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Taking a generalized, fast food order-taking approach to a SharePoint implementation is not effective in meeting business needs, yet countless IT departments frequently make this fundamental mistake. That’s why in a lot of organizations, business users often end up viewing SharePoint as nothing more than a glorified network share.
The key to meeting business needs is to first engage with the business users, understand their pain points, and identify how SharePoint can provide the solution to address these business-specific needs. You do not want to throw a set of solutions at business users and then tell them to go look for a problem to solve.
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