1. BUILDING
INNOVATION COMMUNITY SITES
IN SHAREPOINT 2013
@frankhatzack
@tillegreen

2. Hi and welcome! We do not work for
Microsoft… we work with innovation
communities in Novozymes…
…but we do
believe that
Microsoft has got
a couple of things
quite right with
Sharepoint 2013…
…we love
technology, but
we also start to
realize how
critical Social
Readiness will
be for succesful
adoption in
organizations…

3. OUR SIMPLISTIC APPROACH
Built & test
innovation
community
sites in
Sharepoint
2013
Tenant of 25
seats
Sign up for
Office 365
Enterprise
Trial

4. WHAT THEY GOT ‘QUITE RIGHT’
Office integration Mobile Open App store
Social &
Collaborative Cloud
Build your own
site easily
All of this worked almost bug-free during our trial period.
If we should bitch about a couple of things: tag cloud display was on/off, profile
picture changes took long, some site views on iPhone and iPad were flawed…

5. WHO ARE OUR COMMUNITIES, WHAT DO
THEY DO AND WHAT DO THEY NEED?
Idea Web
Cross-functional,
cross-site portal
> 100 participants
Place to post,
discuss and rate
ideas
Global Assay
Community
Cross-R&D
> 100 members
Knowledge sharing
and discussion
Innovation
Office
Department
collaboration site
< 10 employees
Documents, projec
ts, coordination

6. CREATING INNOVATION SITES WHICH
MEET COMMUNITY NEEDS
Needs
dialogue
Build
site
Collect
feedback
Improve
Test
launch
we were positively surprised how
straightforward these sites could be created
in SP13:
- lots of plug&play and drag&drop…
- App store as a great and open resource
Creating sites with appealing
social, collaborative and plug-in features
(iframes) can be learned quickly and can be
performed by beginner and medium-skilled
sharepoint editors.

7. APP STORE – OPEN & VARIED, PLUG & PLAY

8. EXAMPLES OF SITES WE BUILT

9. PERSONALIZED SITE PAGE
ACCESS YOUR COMMUNITIES, STAY UPDATED ON YOUR
FOLLOWED TOPICS AND PEOPLE

10. Hi, and welcome to the
new Idea Web! Down
here you can read
latest innovation news…
We found that i-frame
embedding of short
tutorial clips creates a
great response with
test users…

11. Tiles enable captivating
overviews over idea categories
and on-going discussion activity
Gamification through top-
contributor performance bars
Widgets to corresponding
innovation content on major
social media

12. IDEA CATEGORY DISCUSSION BOARD
RSS-feeds from external blogs
with category-related content

13. WELCOME AND CODE OF CONDUCT

14. GLOBAL ASSAY COMMUNITY SITE
Hi, and welcome to the
GaCom site! Over here
you can follow the
newsfeed…

15. ANNOUNCING SEMINARS, NEWSLETTERS
AND DISCUSSING TECHNOLOGY

16. INNOVATION OFFICE DEPARTMENT SITE
department newsfeed,
instead of e-mails!
Document repository and
collaboration:
*one place, one version*
Idea discussion board…
I-frame linking to
external content

17. MOBILE VERSIONS
 We tested iPhone and iPad
 Worked almost flawlessly
 Some site views were
bugged and did not win a
beauty contest – yet…
 But OK, considering that we
work in a free beta version
iPad: Oops, were
did the i-frame go?
iPhone: screen
section displayed is
a bit small …
?

18. CONCLUSION
 All in all this was a great first experience!
 We are especially intrigued about:
 the social & collaborative features
 the ease with which we can build our own social sites
 It seems Sharepoint 2013 is (almost) ready for today’s enterprise
organizations
 The question is: are today’s organizations ready for Sharepoint 2013
and similar social platforms?
 The key will be digital profficiency on the individual, functional and
enterprise level – adoption will be the big challenge!

19. SITES, BLOGS AND COMMUNITIES WE FOUND USEFUL TO
SHARE EXPERIENCES ON SHAREPOINT 2013

28. GO BUILD AND HAVE FUN!