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HOW TO IMPROVESHAREPOINT USER ADOPTION:

PRACTICAL TIPS &INDUSTRY BEST PRACTICES

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About Me

Gregory Zelfond 10+ years of experience with SharePoint Huge SharePoint Advocate, blogger Love to solve business problems using code-free, out of

the box SharePoint configurations Owner of SharePoint Maven (sharepointmaven.com)

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About SharePoint Maven

I HELP ORGANIZATIONS TO UNLOCK THE POWER OF SHAREPOINT

MIGRATION CONSULTING TRAINING


Agenda

– Causes of poor User Adoption

– 20 User Adoption Techniques

– Q & A


Heard this before?

SharePoint sucks!

I hate SharePoint!

SharePoint is slow!

I am going back to DropBox!

Where the @#$& do I click?


SharePoint User

Adoption is like

marriage…

Once honeymoon

is over…


CAUSES OF POOR

USER ADOPTION


Causes of poor User Adoption

Obstacles that slow you down– Change in technology

– Change in business process (behavior)

Human Factors– People come from different educational background

– People have different ways to adopt to change

– People are at different levels of mental state

– People have their personal egos

– Company Culture


TECHNIQUES


BEFORE

IMPLEMENTATION…


Technique # 1

Get Senior Leadership buy-in


Technique # 2

Do the SharePoint Demo first!


Technique # 3

Implement SharePoint in Phases


Technique # 4

Designate a Project Manager/Lead


DURING

IMPLEMENTATION…


Technique # 5

Don’t recreate structure from old SharePoint or network drive!


Technique # 6

Lead by Example


Technique # 7

Communication, Communication…


Technique # 8

Identify Power Users


Technique # 9

Don’t ignore Training


Technique # 10

Every site must have an owner!


Technique # 11

Build simple & intuitive sites


Technique # 12

Build an easy feedback mechanism


Technique # 13

Move your business to SharePoint


Technique # 14

Build easy navigation


Technique # 15

Don’t turn every SharePoint &

Office 365 feature on


Technique # 16

Spice it up with some Branding


Technique # 17

Think like an End User


AFTER

IMPLEMENTATION…


Technique # 18

Be ready for a lot of hand-holding


Technique # 19

Keep content fresh


Technique # 20

SharePoint Implementation is not a project. It is an ongoing Operations!


BONUS

TECHNIQUE


Technique # 21

Stop thinking of SharePoint as an IT“thing”. It is a Business “thing”.

In other words, DO NOT let your IT manage SharePoint roll-out in your organization. You (Business) MUST OWN IT.


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