Christian Buckley outlines 5 ways to kill innovation in SharePoint: 1) Skip information architecture which leads to not understanding how SharePoint works. 2) Deploy SharePoint and walk away without ongoing support and updates. 3) Ignore governance which leads to lack of standards and siloed teams. 4) Refuse social computing features which limits search and collaboration. 5) Don't have a user adoption strategy so users won't adopt the system. However, Buckley notes SharePoint success requires an ongoing journey of listening to users and seeking expert advice.

1. How to Kill Innovation in
SharePoint in 5 Easy Steps
CHRISTIAN BUCKLEY
CHIEF EVANGELIST @METALOGIX

2. Christian Buckley
Chief Evangelist & SharePoint MVP
Metalogix
cbuck@metalogix.com
www.buckleyplanet.com
@buckleyplanet

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5. How to Kill Innovation in
SharePoint in 5 Easy Steps
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What I’ll cover today:
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How to break the spirit of your end users
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How to expand the process lawlessness
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How to ensure nobody can ever find their
content ever again
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Which key trends and best practices to
completely and utterly ignore

6. Do you recognize these
business problems?
• Adoption issues
• Weak usage of taxonomy
and templates
• Poor collaboration
• Slow to realize
benefits of
SharePoint
investments

7. Awesome!
The plan is
working.

8. If total failure is your goal,
then please proceed.

10. 5
industry-tested
techniques for ending
any chance that SharePoint
will ever be successful

11. 1. Skip the information architecture.

12. Of course, if you skip the
information architecture…
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You won’t understanding how the platform works
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You won’t know how sites should be structured
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You will not be familiar with the many templates,
content types, taxonomy, and navigation
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You won’t be able to help your users take
advantage of the rich features within
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You will struggle to accomplish the basic tasks
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Search will just flat out suck

13. 2. Deploy it, and walk away.

14. The problem with just deploying
SharePoint and walking away…
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The system will not actually meet the
requirements of your users
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As your users get more sophisticated on the
platform, the platform will not grow with them
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End users will quickly outgrow a static
platform, and move onto other tools – which
will most likely be unsecure, unsupported, and
you’ll eventually be tasked with cleaning it up

15. 3. Don't plan for governance

16. Ignoring governance sounds
great, but then…
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There will be no early detection for long-term
problems
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You’ll have no visibility into how the system is
being used
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Teams will have differing standards, if they
follow standards at all
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Collaboration will break down into old team
and divisional siloes, and the system will lose
its inherent value

17. 4. Refuse to recognize the power of social computing

18. Of course, if you think social is just
a passing fad…
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Then you’ll miss out on another layer of the
search experience
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You won’t be able to put content and ideas
(and innovation) in context to the running dialog
within your organization
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You will severely limit your ability to find
content and ideas outside of the exact search
terms you input
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You’ll find it more difficult to find the right
people and expertise
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Your end users will increasingly disengage

19. 5. Don't have a user adoption strategy.

20. If you don’t have a plan for
getting your users to saddle up…
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They won’t use it
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You’ll spend a bunch of money on a very
expensive file share (regardless of whether
its on premises or in the cloud)
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They’ll go find something else – and you can
bet that it’ll be outside of your control

21. But
seriously…

22. Just remember….
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SharePoint is a journey, not a race
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You're not going to get everything right all the time
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Listen to your users
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Be authentic about what you know, what you have
permissions (and budget) to do for your end users
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Reach out to the expert community for advice
and best practices

23. Thank you!
cbuck@metalogix.com
www.buckleyplanet.com
@buckleyplanet