There’s no secret that SharePoint is a powerful technology platform for organizing and sharing content with new features continuously being added. However, the true power of the platform, if well designed, is in the ability to change the way people work together. Which, in turn, drives culture change throughout a team, an organization, or an enterprise.
When you successfully plan your implementation of SharePoint, you can create opportunities to enhance your employees’ ability to work within teams and to collaborate with colleagues, both globally and in the next cubicle. Understanding the strategy of your enterprise and then, incorporating that into the SharePoint design, learn how to transform your culture including ways to:
- Recognize that culture is important and can impact the success of your enterprise strategy, so be sure to have an understanding of both before designing your SharePoint environment or site
- Identify the behaviors that would most likely affect change in the culture to meet the strategy and determine the capabilities of your collaborative environment that can be leveraged
- Leverage the strengths of your existing culture and incorporate that into the design of your environment or sites to ensure adoption
- Focus on providing the content that can affect the culture in a positive direction, rather than content that is directly intended to change the culture.
Samir Abbo, Web & Collaboration Manager
GENERAL ATOMICS
