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.
While presenting at a SharePoint user group session in Germany last month, I had a conversation with an attendee about the new app model in SharePoint 2013, and how different the model was compared to all the work his company had done around sandbox solutions in 2010. He observed that purchasing an app through the Microsoft marketplace, while having gone through a technical review from Microsoft, could still open up his company’s environment to potential risk depending on the content it accessed and what company or individual information is stored in the cloud. It was a great point, and led to a conversation around risk management as part of any SharePoint deployment plan.
The European SharePoint Community are delighted to bring you part 2 in a three part series of “SharePoint Governance & the Pillars of Wisdom” by Ian McNeice.
The European SharePoint Community are delighted to bring you part 1 ” of “SharePoint Governance & the Pillars of Wisdom” by Ian McNeice.
Over the years the subject of SharePoint governance has taken on a distinctly technical flavour and confusion reigns. Ian have taken the opportunity of using his business-focused expertise to redressing the balance by returning the subject of SharePoint Governance to its origins – the business. In this exclusive business governance bible, Ian demonstrate how the Seven Pillars of Wisdom, a philosophy that underpins all major belief systems, also underpins the corporate universe and how it applies directly to SharePoint. Using this practical guide, any organisation can prepare a complete governance strategy for SharePoint in the cloud and on premise, ensuring full alignment with their business program.
As I’ve been traveling, I’ve received a number of questions from folks about where they can get my content to view “offline”, on the road, etc. With many thanks to Franklin Teagle, who spearheads our SharePoint Community Site, I can share with you a list of recent videos and recordings that he compiled. These are “live” recordings, with questions and answers, glitches, demos and “uh’s and ah’s”, but they’re a great way to catch up with some (if I may say so) pretty good SharePoint content
SharePoint is a great productivity tool with almost endless possibilities in customizations and flexibility even for endusers. This is exactly what endusers want, because the have lot of ad-hoc requirements besides the strict processes and core-it-systems.
SHAREPOINT IS EASY TO DEPLOY, EASY TO USE AND EASY TO ADAPT!
So, a lot of companies startet with SharePoint years ago without regarding concerns of a lot of IT departments, that moaned about possible problems with “manageability of such a tool, where everybody can do what he wants“ – but as IT is known to always have pessimistic thoughts about risk and flexibility or unplanned and ad-hox usage of tools,, a lot of companies startet SharePoint on a broad base with optimistic estimations and hopes.
It took no wonder, that SharePoint spread in a lot of departments and gained appreciation by endusers, as the collaborative abilities of SharePoint are really useful in daily business and especially in conjunction with the usage of Office-Documents and “Daily”-Workflows.
