Tag Archives: SharePoint

Should SharePoint Register on CIO’s ‘Give a Crap-o-Meter’? (Harvey Nash CIO Survey)

This post is a review of the findings from the excellent  Harvey Nash’s CIO Survey 2011 and in particular an analysis of where SharePoint (and 21apps broader thinking) fit with what CIO’s are thinking currently. Should SharePoint Register on CIO’s ‘Give … 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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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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SharePoint Retreat SW London–14th May 2011

There have been a few really good SharePoint Retreats, the idea behind them is to get people actually coding during the day rather than watching others present.  The reason this that you only really learn by doing and as has … 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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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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SharePoint Governance and Information Architecture Master Class

In November 2010 21apps and Seven Sigma ran the first SharePoint Governance and Information Architecture course in London. The feedback from the course was fantastic: “This course has been the most insightful two days of my SharePoint career” “Easily one … Continue reading

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