Presentation for SharePoint Saturday St. Louis, January 21, 2017.

1. SharePoint Business
Value
SharePoint Saturday St. Louis
1/20/2017
mbowers@mailctp.com
@matthewbowers58

2. Contact Me
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3. Questions
• How many of you are IT team, staff or leadership?

4. Questions
• How many of you are IT team, staff or leadership?
• How many of you are business?

5. Questions
• How many of you are IT team, staff or leadership?
• How many of you are business?
• How many are more of a hybrid?

6. Questions
• How many of you are IT team, staff or leadership?
• How many of you are business?
• How many are more of a hybrid?
• How many of you are Business analysts?

7. Questions
• How many of you are IT team, staff or leadership?
• How many of you are business?
• How many are more of a hybrid?
• How many of you are Business analysts?
• How many of you are Project managers?

8. Questions
• How many of you are IT team, staff or leadership?
• How many of you are business?
• How many are more of a hybrid?
• How many of you are Business analysts?
• How many of you are Project managers?
• How many of you are developers?

9. Questions
• How many of you are IT team, staff or leadership?
• How many of you are business?
• How many are more of a hybrid?
• How many of you are Business analysts?
• How many of you are Project managers?
• How many of you are developers?
• How many of you are architects?

10. Questions
• Who has worked to budget for a SharePoint implementation?

11. Questions
• Who has worked to budget for a SharePoint implementation?
• How many of your organizations have a specific business case
model that you use? (Six Sigma – Kaizen; Rational Unified
Process Requirements, Envisioning Sessions etc).

12. Questions
• Who has worked to budget for a SharePoint implementation?
• How many of your organizations have a specific business case
model that you use? (Six Sigma – Kaizen; Rational Unified
Process Requirements, Envisioning Sessions etc).
• How do you go about gathering, documenting and
understanding your business, technical and functional
requirements?

13. Questions
• Who has worked to budget for a SharePoint implementation?
• How many of your organizations have a specific business case
model that you use? (Six Sigma – Kaizen; Rational Unified
Process Requirements, Envisioning Sessions etc).
• How do you go about gathering, documenting and
understanding your business, technical and functional
requirements?
• For what business solution are you using SharePoint?

14. Establishing Business Value

15. The Business Does Not
CARE About SharePoint!

16. The business doesn’t care about SharePoint.
They care about the capabilities SharePoint is providing.

17. The business doesn’t care about SharePoint.
They care about the capabilities SharePoint is providing.

18. The business doesn’t care about SharePoint.
They care about the capabilities SharePoint is providing.

19. Intranets

20. Intranet defined
An intranet is a private network accessible only to an
organization's staff.[1][2] Generally a wide range of information and
services from the organization's internal IT systems are available
that would not be available to the public from the Internet. A
company-wide intranet can constitute an important focal point of
internal communication and collaboration, and provide a single
starting point to access internal and external resources. In its
simplest form an intranet is established with the technologies for
local area networks (LANs) and wide area networks (WANs).[
Wikipedia

21. Why do intranets fail?

22. What do the best intranets do?

23. How are you using SharePoint?
• Intranet
• Collaboration
• Communication
• Content Management
• Search
• BI/Performance Management
• Forms/Workflow
• Public Facing Websites
• Extranet
• Digital Workplace

24. Business Drivers
• Whether managers plan to implement new-business processes or
specify new technology, a proposed change in operations often
involves a financial investment, forcing managers to make an effective
business case that justifies the change. To make the case, managers
must understand business drivers the change must support.
• Simply put, it is critical to show the way the proposed change will
better align the organization with its mission. It must show the way this
proposed project’s measurable benefits will outweigh potential risks.
Managers should consider the primary business drivers. One major
global facilities organization identified its top five business drivers as:

25. Business Drivers
• elevate the level of consistency and quality of services across the entire
portfolio and automate standardized business processes by using
enabling technology
• shift time spent on labor-intensive activities to higher value-add
activities
• achieve data transparency to allow visibility and timely access to data
at all levels of the organization
• leverage technology as a resource to scale for increasing client
demands, while reducing the cost of providing those services
• support professional staff by freeing up their time for core activities,
aid in career growth, and make the collective institutional knowledge
available for the entire organization.

26. Business Problem
Well-defined problems lead to breakthrough solutions. When developing new
products, processes, or even businesses, most companies aren’t sufficiently
rigorous in defining the problems they’re attempting to solve and articulating
why those issues are important. Without that rigor, organizations miss
opportunities, waste resources, and end up pursuing innovation initiatives that
aren’t aligned with their strategies. How many times have you seen a project go
down one path only to realize in hindsight that it should have gone down
another? How many times have you seen an innovation program deliver a
seemingly breakthrough result only to find that it can’t be implemented or it
addresses the wrong problem? Many organizations need to become better at
asking the right questions so that they tackle the right problems.
Harvard Business Review

27. Business Problems or The Business Pain
• Collaboration

28. Business Problems or The Business Pain
• Collaboration
• Communication

29. Business Problems or The Business Pain
• Collaboration
• Communication
• Files (storage, single source of truth, over writing work, location,
records management)

30. Business Problems or The Business Pain
• Collaboration
• Communication
• Files (storage, single source of truth, over writing work, location,
records management)
• Search

31. Business Problems or The Business Pain
• Collaboration
• Communication
• Files (storage, single source of truth, over writing work, location,
records management)
• Search
• Enterprise Reporting / BI

32. Human Resources Issues
• Competition for talent
• New technology developments
• Rising sense of insecurity
• Economy
• Demographic changes
• Data driven HR practices

33. How SharePoint Helps with HR Issues
One tool that can he used to help you, is SharePoint. Some of the TOP TEN ways that
SharePoint can assist with Human Resources initiatives are:
• Policies and Procedures
• Leave Requests
• Resume Databases
• Requisition Requests
• Offer Letter generation
• Employee reviews
• On boarding
• Off boarding
• Mentoring programs
• Training

34. Corporate Communications
• If you want to create business value from your communications in
today’s environment you need to master both the art and the science
behind corporate communication. As corporate communications
moves from “nice to have” to “business critical” the expectations and
demands have grown tremendously. (Forbes).
• As you know, communication problems in the workplace can cost
your company productivity and money. Without efficient
communication, your company is unable to exchange information
essential to daily operations and create a communication network to
carry new product data. Understanding examples of workplace
communication issues can help you to create policies that will
address problems and create an efficient communication network in
the office.

35. Corporate Communications
Some of the TOP TEN ways that SharePoint can assist with Corporate Communication
initiatives are:
• Cross platform compatibility
• Usability
• Web content management
• SEARCH
• MS Office integration
• Social Computing
• Reporting
• File storage, synchronization and sharing
• Mobile device compatibility
• Applications and Line of Business integration

36. SharePoint Business Scenarios
• Point Solutions
• HR
• Project Portals
• Product Development Portals
• Sales Support Portals
• Customer Service Portals
• BPM/Workflow solutions

37. Questions?