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Topic: SharePoint Maturity and User Adoption: Assessing your Deployment from Two Complimentary Viewpoints
SharePoint’s rapid adoption in the business community has created interesting challenges, one of which is understanding the proficiency of the organization’s use of this platform. In order to better understand SharePoint proficiency, Bill English, CEO of Mindsharp, will discuss an organization’s use of SharePoint both from a maturity model as well as an adoption model. These models integrate to help you:
This session is not a technical drill-down session. Instead, we’ll all be challenged to think more strategically and critically about our SharePoint deployments.
Critical Decision Points Discussed:
Speaker: Bill English
Bill English is an industry leader, author, and educator specializing in SharePoint Products and Technologies. As Chief Executive Officer of EBA Companies (Mindsharp and The Best Practices Conference), Bill draws on his experience in business management to teach and consult about mapping SharePoint features to business processes and information organization needs. As a former psychologist in Minnesota for nine years, English uses his knowledge of human behavior to help companies implement change through software platforms. Microsoft has acknowledged Bill’s professional contributions to the SharePoint community by awarding him the Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award for ten consecutive years. Since 2000, Bill has authored 14 books on Exchange and SharePoint products, including the Administrator’s Companion for SharePoint Server 2010 by Microsoft Press. Bill lives in Minnesota with his wife and two children, where summer is the six best days of the year!