SharePoint Adoption is a Cultural Change: How Do You Manage It?
Change isn’t always easy or welcome. By studying approximately 35 SharePoint 2010 deployment and implementation processes, a team at EPC Group.net was able to flesh out this sometimes difficult and conflict-prone process. The resulting White Paper is overviewed in “Best Practices for SharePoint Cultural Change Management – From the SharePoint Consulting Trenches“:
“When SharePoint Server 2010 is implemented in your environment, you’re not just implementing a simple document management or Web-based collaboration solution. You’re implementing change; Culture change. Business process change and Information management change. Usually, when change happens within an organization, power balances get shifted and conflicts can ensue.”
By outlining common types of change within a business, from structural to cost-cutting and individual to management changes, the article gives a number of useful ideas and information all businesses should be aware of when transitioning to a collaborative system.
SharePoint makes managing a cultural change easier. SharePoint is inherently aligned with organizational values and goals and with the right modifications can be highly intuitive for non-technical employees. To ease some users forward in the new system, you may want to look into Smartlogic. Their Semaphore technology enhances findability and makes content more relevant to user needs.
Ken Toth
November 25, 2011
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