This document discusses challenges with adopting SharePoint and how gamification can help address them. It proposes starting with lightweight collaboration instead of heavy implementations and using community features, rewards, and campaigns to increase user engagement. Examples provided include an ideas hub for employees and running enterprise campaigns using social features. The document promotes M.R.S. Company Ltd. as an IT consulting firm that can help organizations with SharePoint implementations and gamification strategies.

1. Anirudh Krishan
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*Challenges with SharePoint
*Gamification - Introduction
*Gamification & SharePoint
*How M.R.S can help
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Managed
Metadata?
Lists?
Document
library?
Records
Center?
Why
SharePoint?

4. SharePoint is a great platform but has it’s own adoption challenges.
• It’s hard for end users to understand concept of lists, document
libraries, managed metadata etc.
• Most of SharePoint implementations are tops down rather than
bottoms up implementations
• For end users SharePoint is just another tool, which they need
to access on daily basis as a push from management
• Default Enterprise social features are sometimes over estimated,
in terms of key to adoption
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5. * What is Gamification?
“Gamification is the use of game thinking and game mechanics in
non-game contexts to engage users in solving problems”
-Wikipedia-
Some interesting links about Gamification:
• How Gamification Motivates the Masses
http://www.forbes.com/sites/gartnergroup/2014/04/10/how-gamification-motivates-the-masses/
• Gamification: Engagement Strategies for Business and IT
http://www.gartner.com/technology/research/gamification/
• Demystifying Enterprise Gamification for Business
http://constellationr.com/research/2011/12/demystifying-enterprise-gamification-business
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6. * How to Gamify SharePoint Implementations
• Rather than starting with heavy duty SharePoint implementation, start
with light weighted collaboration solution on SharePoint
• Implement solutions like Crowdsourcing, Innovation management on
SharePoint to increase User engagement
• Use community site features in SharePoint to increase collaboration
• Reward users for contributing to the SharePoint portal
• Avoid introducing a lot of SharePoint features and introduce features
targeting user engagement in initial phases
• Use social features to run campaigns to increase engagement &
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collaboration

7. * Some Examples – #1 Ideas Hub
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8. * Some Examples – #1 Ideas Hub
• Empower your employees with Ideas Hub implementation using
Community Features of SharePoint 2013
• Recognize the top contributors to improve employee engagement &
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motivation
• Further ideation process can be developed to promote & evaluate
ideas shared by employees. This will help with Returns On
Investment.
• Search features of SharePoint can be these used to search the
knowledge base shared by the employees.

9. * Some Examples – #2 Run Campaigns
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10. * Some Examples – #2 Run Campaigns
• Forget the traditional ways (emails, more emails …) of generating
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ideas.
• Use Social features of SharePoint to run enterprise wide campaigns in
a secure way.
• Use scoping features to generate or share ideas within a specific
project team.
• Employees can then discover & follow the trending topics using
trending hashtags/topics features of SharePoint
• Share ideas or knowledge with your colleagues in form of text,
document file, video etc.

11. * How M.R.S. Company Ltd. Can Help
INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONS
EXCEPTIONAL RESULTS
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MAKING IT WORK FOR YOU -Our Promise!
• Established in 1979
• Professional IT Consulting Services & Software Firm
• IT & Business Employees – full time Employee’s
• Office – Toronto, Ontario
• Serve Large – Mid Market Enterprise Clientele
• Horizontal reach across varied industries
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Competencies:
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• SharePoint and Business Intelligence
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* Next Steps…
Have questions about Gamification? We would love to chat with
you! Drop us a line anytime.
Would you like to know more about M.R.S and how we can help
with your SharePoint Implementations?
Contact Us:
info@mrscompany.com
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