Category: Governance

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.

Developing Your Governance Strategy for Social
Developing Your Governance Strategy for Social
Blog Posts

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.

The Governance Elephant
The Governance Elephant
Blog Posts

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

Managing Governance Across the Social Landscape
Webinars

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

Creating a SharePoint Communication Message Framework
Creating a SharePoint Communication Message Framework
Blog Posts

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.).

Whitepaper: SharePoint Governance - A Definitive Guide
Whitepaper: SharePoint Governance – A Definitive Guide
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What is Goverance?
Within organizations, there are a few words that can instill fear across both business and IT teams. Governance is one of those words. Let’s face it, governance is not easy to define. Part of the challenge is that governance means different things to different organizations. It can also be interpreted differently between business units within the same company.

Introducing the DocAve Governance Automation Web Part for Microsoft SharePoint
Introducing the DocAve Governance Automation Web Part for Microsoft SharePoint
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For those not familiar with DocAve Governance Automation, AvePoint recently launched the next generation of its flagship product for automating end-to-end Microsoft SharePoint service and information management and delivered new features for site collection provisioning, site provisioning, site collection lifecycle management, and permissions management with the release Governance Automation Service Pack 1. For more information, please visit our Governance Automation product page.

Maintaining Governance in the Cloud
Maintaining Governance in the Cloud
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During his keynote presentation at SPTechCon in February 2012, Jared Spataro, Director of SharePoint at Microsoft, announced that SharePoint 2013 was being developed using a “Cloud First” strategy. He went on to explain that as the platform reached parity with current installations, Office 365 customers could expect to have access to the benefits of new features sooner than on-premises deployments. This was a major shift for Microsoft, and for the SharePoint platform. At the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) in Toronto in July 2012, Kurt DelBene, President of the Microsoft Office Division, announced that Office 365 is growing faster than predicted, and is likely to eclipse SharePoint as the fastest growing Microsoft offer ever.

The Role of Reporting in Governance
The Role of Reporting in Governance
Blog Posts

Central to your SharePoint governance planning activities should be understanding what is happening within your SharePoint environment. Before you organize, you need to identify the actors and key use cases of your system, assessing and prioritizing team requirements, and figuring out measurements and monitoring of current systems — and your ongoing efforts. Your governance strategy should be reviewed and updated based on changing data, and based on any risks that you identify so that you can create policies that secure and protect, but are also flexible enough to meet the growing demands of your organization to collaborate. To accomplish this, you need a plan for reporting.