Category Archives: 21shift

Defining Measurable Outcomes from SharePoint – 21apps Org Shift Model

In this post we are going to look at the other aspect the Outcomes stage of the 21Shift model – SharePoint 2010 business value, how do you measure it? Continue reading

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So Right But So Wrong – AIIM’s SharePoint Strategies & Experiences WhitePaper

The purpose behind this blog post (the ‘Why’ if you will) is to offer our assessment of AIIM’s recent SharePoint Strategies & Experiences White Paper and highlight our views, relevant experiences and tools and techniques that 21apps use to tackle … Continue reading

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Exclusive 1 day workshop on how 21apps do awesome SharePoint Projects

Microsoft SharePoint has the potential to deliver significant value and is widely implemented, but all too often technical implementations fail to recognise organisational change and so do not deliver the anticipated return on investment or business outcomes. I coined the … Continue reading

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I Ain’t Got No Requirements! – 21apps Org Shift Model

It’s a chilling phrase that I’m betting your clients mutter all too often. They’re dragged into a meeting to discuss the requirements of the new SharePoint Project, they don’t know the context, they don’t understand why there’s more change, they … Continue reading

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Rebooting SharePoint & Office 365 Governance

Governance means many different things to many different people. In a previous post I talked about there being three distinct flavours of Governance, and certainly within the SharePoint and Office 365 world, this holds true: IT Service Governance (How) – … Continue reading

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The ROI of SharePoint Social Features (Measuring the Intangible)

When talking about ‘Social Computing’ within the Enterprise, there are two schools of thought as to it’s return on investment: Everything has a quantifiable financial value ‘Social Computing’s’ value is not quantifiable, but you should do it anyway. To my mind, … Continue reading

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Requirements–we don’t need them!

The thing I love about twitter is that we get to have great conversations with people who are passionate about a subject in the same way we would over a beer.  Take for example the conversation I stumbled upon on … Continue reading

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10 Signs of SharePoint Project Chaos

SharePoint is great isn’t it? As a technology it’s evolved to be an awesome platform, with a breadth of features that is hard to match anywhere else… So why is it that we all seem to be coming across an … Continue reading

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Governance – What does it mean to you?

“Huge set of documents telling you step-by-step what to do” I’m not convinced that that is the official definition of governance! But after reading a large number of governance documents over the years, I’m beginning to think that most people/companies think … Continue reading

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I can see clearly now! – 21apps Org Shift Model

The previous post in this series about our 21shift model, focussed on how we run our “Identity” stage. Today I will look at what I think is one of the most important stages in our approach to shifting your organisation … Continue reading

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