Hot Topics
In May more than 100 people from more than 60 companies will collaborate with the Conference Advisory Team in a series of round table discussions to create the Hot Topics for the Share Conference Program for 2012. Please let us know if you’d like to participate in the round table discussions.
In the meantime, take a look at the Share Conference Hot Topics for 2011:
Governance - Where Should Ownership Lie?
User Adoption and Change Management
Training - Empowering the User
Information Architecture and Taxonomies
Collaboration - Creating Active Alliances
Upgrading to 2010 - Understanding the Business Benefits
Social Networking: Building User Communities
Content Management - Store, Control, Manage
Workflow and Business Process Automation
Security - How Do You Keep Your Content Secure?
BI Reporting
Cross-Platform Integration
SharePoint in the Cloud
Demonstrating the Business Case for SharePoint
Web Content Publishing and Extranet Collaboration
Portal Design
The SharePoint Roadmap
Governance - Where Should Ownership Lie?
- Understanding the drivers of SharePoint and where ownership best sits
- Solutions to good SharePoint Governance
- Business and IT integrating to best govern SharePoint
- “Super users” and “site custodians” - is this best practice for site ownership?
- Implementing a clearly defi ned Governance plan
- Framework to support successful integration of Governance
- Understanding the goal of SharePoint within an organisation
User Adoption and Change Management
- Driving early user adoption is critical for the overall use and understanding of SharePoint
- Ensuring management buy into the concept and capabilities of SharePoint will ensure a culture of correct usage
- Managing change by managing expectations
- Aligning user adoption with the business case
- Determining an appropriate pace for a SharePoint roll-out
- Associated costs of user adoption and change management
- Factors that cause low user adoption of SharePoint
Training - Empowering the User
- Empowering the user to avoid incorrect use and avoidance
- Customising role and functional based training
- Innovation in training and site owner access requirements
- Getting the right blended learning approach
- Understanding the culture and demographics of your users
- Peer-to-peer knowledge training, resourcing and support
- Aligning the training to your Governance plan
Information Architecture and Taxonomies
- Challenges in the ability to sort, defi ne and access information using SharePoint
- Taxonomies can be defi ned both on a corporate and departmental level
- Migration and population of metadata
- Best practice design of site taxonomy
- Functionality and capacity of information architecture - flexibility and agility to grow
- Understanding metadata capacity in SharePoint 2010
Collaboration - Creating Active Alliances
- Implementing clear communication plans to convey the business process outcomes
- Shifting cultural mindsets to ensure collaboration through SharePoint is taken up companywide
- Merging business and IT roadmaps - aligning common goals
- Information Lifecycle Management
- Understanding and conveying the business case for a collaborative environment
- Driving improved content management through collaboration
Upgrading to 2010 - Understanding the Business Benefits
- The business drivers to upgrade to SharePoint 2010
- Driving users to the new platform
- Identifying a best practice upgrade path and the migration
- Understanding the technical options and impacts
- Managing the upgrade and understanding the licensing implications
Social Networking: Building User Communities
- Leveraging social networking features to build communities and improve knowledge sharing
- The opportunities SharePoint can provide as a social networking tool
- SharePoint integration with other social networking mediums
- Building a framework with reach across functional groups to find experts, form communities and enjoy social learning
Content Management - Store, Control, Manage
- Improved ways to better store, control and manage your internal records and documents within SharePoint
- Integration with third-party document and records management tools
- Understanding the lifecycle of content management
- Data cleansing strategies for accessing and driving content
- Managing the information sprawl across team sites and documents
- Best practice for capturing, storing and accessing data
Workflow and Business Process Automation
- Core workflow capabilities of the various versions of SharePoint
- Third-party complementary workfl ow products
- Best practices for business process automation and understanding the limitations of workflow
Security - How Do You Keep Your Content Secure?
- Implications on content security in SharePoint
- Best practice for managing security across content held in SharePoint
- How security is best managed in SharePoint
- Permission Governance challenges
- Managing access requests
BI Reporting
- The Business Intelligence capabilities for dashboard reporting
- Information architecture considerations to make aggregation seamless
- Dashboards and PowerPivot for Business Intelligence - process improvement, reporting and knowledge management
- How can SharePoint be used for BI and collaboration?
Cross-Platform Integration
- How can SharePoint integrate with other systems?
- Educating users on the hows and whys of system integration to maximise functionality
- Integration with SAP and other Microsoft products
- When does it make sense to surface business data from other systems in SharePoint?
SharePoint in the Cloud
- What does moving SharePoint to the Cloud involve?
- Challenges of migrating content on SharePoint to the Cloud
- What is the business case for moving to the Cloud?
- Is customisation possible in the Cloud?
- What does SharePoint 2010 look like as a Cloud offering?
Demonstrating the Business Case for SharePoint
- Conveying the value proposition of SharePoint to the business and demonstrating the ROI
- Managing expectations by demonstrating is functionality, capability and ROI for the business
- Measuring the success of implementation on an ongoing basis
- Practical models, techniques and templates for best practice
- What are the limitations of SharePoint?
Web Content Publishing and Extranet Collaboration
- What are the tools for content deployment?
- Content publishing from an internal network to the internet and extranet
- Building secure extranet sites to facilitate collaboration
Portal Design
- The look, feel, branding and usability of an Intranet site can improve business processes
- Balance the look and feel with functionality and understand associated costs with portal design
- Out of the box vs. customisation usability
The SharePoint Roadmap
- The Microsoft roadmap for SharePoint
- The future for SharePoint, the Cloud and mobility solutions
- Business solutions of SharePoint 2010 and SharePoint online
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