Tim Cermak is a senior portfolio advisor at Advisicon who discusses the buzz word "SharePoint". SharePoint is a platform for enterprise collaboration that allows workers to better share information. It can provide 80% of business needs out of the box with no customization. Successful companies will use SharePoint to drive growth, enhance efficiency, and reduce costs by laying the foundation for future innovation through a unified collaboration platform.

1. What is this buzz word “SharePoint”November 19th2009Tim CermakSenior Portfolio AdvisorAdvisicon, Inc.Tim.cermak@advisicon.com

2. Who am I?Tim Cermak, PMPSenior Portfolio Advisor, Advisicon(Volunteer: Director of Virtual Campuses for PMI College of Scheduling, Gantthead.com SME)WhatEnterprise Project Management Technology Applications

3. Strategic Planning & Enterprise Portfolio ManagementWhyResults are measurable and people and processes are better in a projectized environmentHowKnowledge Transfer

4. Scheduling: “Scheduling Done Right Makes Management Simple”

5. Competency development is critical

6. Integrating Carbon and Silicon

7. Optimization

8. Right balance of ingredients

9. Streamline creativity

10. Sustainability

11. Culture, Methodology and TechnologyAgendaSituation and DemandLook Back – Look AheadOnly Knowledge and Ideas Need Apply HereProject & Portfolio Management ProcessesOpen Forum (ALL)

12. Is Technology the Answer... ?Can You Fly This Airplane ....A fool with a tool ...... is still a fool !

13. Getting Things Done Through PeopleManual vs. Knowledge Workers Manual workers obviously work primarily with their hands, bodies and muscles; they create physical (hardware) products, operate machines and use physical tools.

14. Knowledge workers primarily use their minds rather than their hands; they create non-physical (software) products, such as ideas, data, information, reports, designs, plans; their product comes out of their mouths or through a pen.Russell D. Archibald: PLANNING, SCHEDULING AND CONTROLLING THE EFFORTS OF KNOWLEDGE WORKERSOur attempts to plan and schedule the efforts of knowledge workers frequently are not very successful. We have all heard the painful reaction of our fellow knowledge workers:"You can't schedule creativity:""I don't have time to plan - I have to get some work done!""Too much paperwork''"Good idea for all the others, but not for me; I'm different""You don't understand our problems".Russell D. Archibald: PLANNING, SCHEDULING AND CONTROLLING THE EFFORTS OF KNOWLEDGE WORKERSToo much emphasis is placed on instant response to any question, however tangential it may be.Memo: Ford Motor CompanySubordinates at every level usually are eager to impress and please their superiors and in doing so may go well beyond levels of response and service required for effective operationsMemo: Ford Motor Company

15. Executives Agree - Time to embrace innovationExecutives now firmly believe that innovation is central to a company's strategy and performance, but getting it right is as hard as ever, according to a recent McKinsey Global Survey. Some 70 % of corporate leaders say innovation is among their top three priorities for driving growth. Improve business performance

16. Create a culture of innovation

17. Invest in innovationDo we need innovation? Let’s consider the Big 3…

18. More, More MORE! –Can we innovate and use less?"These challenging times present IT leaders with an opportunity to make technology work harder and smarter to get the job done," Nancy Gofus, Verizon's senior vice president of global business products, said in a statementMIT Sloan Prof. Erik Brynjolfsson, director of the Center for eBusiness at MIT Sloan.According to Brynjolfsson, business has often had a long learning curve on how to fully utilize new technologies. “A century ago, an exciting new technology called electricity was just being introduced,” he said. “But by itself, electricity did nothing for productivity. It took decades for firms to figure out how to redesign their factories and processes to deliver a productivity payoff.” “But today, managers cannot afford to wait decades to harness the potential for greater productivity from much faster, exponential improvements in information technology. The companies that succeed will be the ones that understand the importance of combining the digital organization with digital technologies.”

19. Intranet 2.0 -- Enterprise Collaberation According to Forrester’s Enterprise and SMB Software Survey, Q3 2007, nearly 65% of organizations in North American and Europe will invest in team collaboration software in 2008. Consumer and user-centered technologies are experiencing "grass-roots" adoption in enterprises where they are empowering information workers, giving them more control over content creation, sharing and dissemination. Wikis, blogs, podcasts and instant messaging have become staples in many enterprises, especially as marketing tools or as means of communicating with customers, prospects, employees and partners. Wikis and blogs enable content creation, but can users manage content with them?Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Content Management 23 September 2008…all this content creation and sharing typically happens outside any formal content management strategy. Organizations should take advantage of evolving, richer user interfaces and tools for content creation, consumption and multichannel outputMagic Quadrant for Enterprise Content Management 23 September 2008

20. What is this ‘SharePoint’ stuff?By the end of 2007, 75% of all U.S. businesses will have at least tried out Microsoft SharePoint 2007. Bill Gates, delivering a keynote address Monday in Seattle at the company's Office SharePoint Conference 2008. SharePoint is "based on a vision of letting workers share information in a better way.” InformationWeek March 3, 2008 SharePoint can provide 80% of some businesses' needs straight out of the box with no customization.

21. Back to Basics to Integrate & StreamlineCulture, Methodology and TechnologyWhat’s the Secret Sauce?

22. Looking Back -- Shaped by illustrations Cave writing: Abstract thought and the Genus Homo

23. Air Writing: Abstract thought and the Program Manager?Looking Back -- Shaped by tools 1600’s: Binary Code

24. Mid 20th Century: The UNIVAC

25. Late 20th Century: Personal PC

26. Look Ahead: Thin AirLooking Back -- Shaped by a vision and collaboration ~5000 BC Strategy planning: Sun Tzu.

27. ~2000 BC Resource planning: The Pyramids.

28. 20th Century: Interdependencies and charts (Gantt Charts).

29. Look Ahead: Global Resource pool.PROJECT MANAGEMENTEvolution of CollaborationResourceManagementFinancialManagementBusiness Process & FormsBusiness IntelligenceCOLLABORATIONPortfolio ManagementEnterprise Content ManagementCollaborationSearchCollaborativeWorkspacesPortalProgram ManagementReporting

30. Strike the Right Balance in Varying EconomiesSuccessful Companies will lay the Foundation for GrowthDrive GrowthEnhance EfficiencyReduce Costs