Learn More: http://www.dmcinfo.com/sharepoint Ever feel like you are riding an elephant that refuses to change direction? This feeling is common for leaders who try to make change take hold in an organization. In the best-selling book, Switch, the Heath brothers describe strategies to address situations where an organization's rider (logic) and elephant (emotion) are at odds in creating change. Microsoft SharePoint is a great tool for getting your organization to adopt a more collaborative approach to achieving business goals. With over 100,000,000 world-wide users, Microsoft SharePoint has emerged as the de facto collaboration, search, workflow, and dashboarding platform for business. SharePoint offers business a way to leverage the Microsoft technology they already own to drive their business to operate more efficiently and become more competitive through a multitude of capabilities.

1. Team CollaborationWorkshopMarch 16, 2011

2. DMC Overview Founded in 1996 Global customers with Midwest headquarters Factory automation solutions Test and measurement automation Custom software applications Consulting services

3. SwitchHow to Change ThingsWhen Change is Hard

4. Today’s Agenda Making the “Switch” The Elephant The Rider The Path SharePoint – Your Collaboration Enabler Final Thoughts / Q & A

5. Motivate The Elephant Find the Feeling Shrink the Change Appeal to Identity

6. What’s Your Mindset? You are a certain kind of person, and there is not much that can be done to really change that. No matter what kind of person you are, you can always change substantially. You can do things differently, but the important parts of who you are can’t really be changed. You can always change basic things about the kind of person you are.

7. Direct The Rider Find the Bright Spots Script the Critical Moves Point to the Destination

9. Measurable

10. Achievable

11. Relevant

12. Time-based

13. Achieve

15. Use Checklists to Build HabitsStructure Sets You Free Some Examples: In-person Meetings Web Meeting or Conf. Call Project Kickoff Customer/Vendor Meeting Proposal Creation Sending an Email

16. What Have You Heard About SharePoint? Common SharePoint Myths: It’s just for storing documents. You have to be a large business to benefit from SharePoint. You need specialized IT resources to support SharePoint. It’s not user friendly. SharePoint is expensive. Just get started; learn as you go.

17. But in Reality… SharePoint does a lot more than just store documents. Ideal for organizations with remote workers. Usually supported by existing IT resources. Designed for user-generated /user-managed content. Licensing for the base version of SharePoint is FREE. Successful implementations requires upfront planning.

18. Why SharePoint? The market leader for collaboration and portals More than 100,000,000 SharePoint users world-wide SharePoint is browser-based Easy to use and share information Microsoft licensing for the base version is FREE!

19. SharePoint Feature Overview Business Intelligence Collaboration Business Processes Extranet sites, Project Mgmt, Outlook Calendar/Task Integration, Alerts & Notifications KPIs, Dashboards, Line of Business Integration, Browser-based Spreadsheets Enterprise Collaboration Portal Structured Approval Workflowand Business Process Automation Wikis for Best Practices, Checklists, Blogs, Discussion Grps, Surveys Web 2.0 Content Management Search Document Mgmt., Intranet, Extranet, Public-facing Websites, Audit Trail, Version History, Records Mgmt. SharePoint,Network Drives, Role-based Results Trimming

20. Intranet / Extranet

21. Team Collaboration Sites

23. ↓ Labor Time

25. Labor Time

27. Labor Time

29. Search SharePoint and Your Network Drive at the Same Time Every Word Inside Every Document!

30. Wikis Make it Easy to Find and Maintain Best Practices & Standard Operating Procedures

31. Reporting:The Manual Approach Spreadsheets and Again! Now go do it again! and Again! and So on…

33. Islands of reports / no consolidated view of information

34. Data gets obsolete quickly

35. Trends are based upon (ad-hoc) reporting frequency

37. Operations Dashboard

38. Social Media Dashboard

39. Automated Sales Dashboards

40. Sales KPI Example

41. Why are Dashboards Important? What gets measured gets done! -Tom Peters, Management Guru

42. SharePoint Demonstration

43. SharePoint Version Selection

44. SharePoint License Costs

45. SharePoint Expertise

46. SharePoint User Adoption Identify Department Champions Train Champions to be Tier 1 Support Define “Golden Rules” Make the Rollout an “Event” with Introductory Training

48. Short in duration (~ 4 to 6 weeks)

50. Add KPI goal dashboards

51. Add business process workflowsPhase 2 and Beyond…

52. Questions? Rick Rietz Director of Consulting Services 312.386.7463 rick.rietz@dmcinfo.com