Businessdictionary.com defines Governance as the establishment of policies, and continuous monitoring of their proper implementation, by the members of the governing body of an organisation. It includes the mechanisms required to balance the powers of the members (with the associated accountability), and their primary duty of enhancing the prosperity and viability of the organisation. This can also be referred to as corporate governance.
In short, it is a method of governing the company like a sovereign state, instating its own customs, policies and laws to its employees from the highest to the lowest levels.
Therefore, our Governance Category is full of handy tips, tricks and advise. Check out some of the Step by Step blogs or learn with our eBooks, How To videos and Webinars.
As your SharePoint sites grow and mature, managing permissions become one of the key challenges for every SharePoint site collection administrator. In this webinar, we are going to see how Permission management changed since SharePoint 2007 to SharePoint 2016 and SharePoint Online.
Knowing you have content is good. Knowing where your content is located is better. Knowing how your content relates to the overall organizational goals and business objectives is critical. That relationship is the context. Where context can mean the difference of winning a lawsuit, getting paid, or even staying in business. Context is King!
One of the major challenges facing organizations today is applying information governance to the different information assets that reside in a variety of data sources and repositories.
At my first European SharePoint Conference in Berlin, I presented a session on SharePoint’s social media scorecard, discussing where the 2010 platform performed — and underperformed — around core social collaboration features in comparison to direct and indirect competitors. In the couple years since that event, its amazing to look back at how much not only the technology has advanced, but also at how the messaging around the social organization has begun to take hold. Microsoft has put social at the forefront of their strategy (along with cloud, mobile, and BI) as more and more organizations are recognizing the ability of social tools to drive adoption and engagement.
Governance is one of those necessary items on a SharePoint project that everyone knows about but no one wants to be the first to discuss. It is the proverbial elephant in the room, the huge obstacle in the corner that people hope will be ignored if they do not directly address it
It is vital to start managing governance across the social landscape. To start, in a world that is moving fast towards ‘social enterprise’ and supporting employee productivity through streamlined information sharing capabilities, there is a worrying lack of governance across social platforms, not to mention the social governance capability within SharePoint In this final webinar… READ MORE
One of the most difficult areas of delivering a SharePoint solution is identifying not just who should be targetted for User Adoption, but, going forward, how to sustain that User Adoption through communication. Reasons include rapid changes in the business culture, direction, and changes in technology concerning the methods used to communicate (e.g. business process changes from manual to email notification to automation, etc.).
Acclaimed speaker and SharePoint MVP, Geoff Evelyn has kindly given us an early exclusive of his forthcoming book “Microsoft SharePoint 2013 Planning for Adoption and Governance” with an unedited excerpt from Chapter 2: “Defining the SharePoint Solution Scope”.
Learn how to leverage out-of-box features & services (i.e.PerformancePoint, Visio Graphics, Access Services, and Word Automation Services) provided by SharePoint using HTML5 & JavaScript to rapidly build composite solutions. Speaker Profile
