...with each other in their personal and professional lives. Within the world of work, people’s expectations of how they should be able to collaborate to get things done are in a state of continual evolution, accelerated by the consumerization of IT. SharePoint and Yammer offer your organization a new way of getting work done – a way of being more connected, collaborative and structured in how your people communicate in their day to day work. But it can only be that if you take the people in your organization on that journey with you. When you do, the value of effective Microsoft Corporation August 2013 Applies to: Office 365 | SharePoint 2013 | SharePoint Online Summary: Adoption of new technologies at work, like SharePoint, won’t happen all at once. In this book, learn how to craft an effective plan, aligned with business goals, that will demonstrate how SharePoint will benefit business people personally, how it will make their job easier, and how it will address the pain points they experience at work. By taking a planned, phased approach, you can ensure successful adoption by using the best practices obtained by the SharePoint User Adoption Research from Microsoft, and from customers and partners who are successful at driving SharePoint adoption. ©2013 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. This document is provided “as-is.” Information and views expressed in this document, including URL and other Internet Web site references, may change without notice. You bear the risk of...
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...Implementation of an Intranet Site within the Chief Financial Officer Division at the Texas Department of Aging and Disability Marlo King IS535 Managerial Applications of Information Technology Devry University-Keller Graduate School of Management April 15, 2012 Table of Contents Proposal 3 Topic 3 Problem 3 Approach 3 Methodology 4 Milestone 1 (Restated Business Problem) 5 Company Background 5 Business Issues 6 Solution Benefits 7 Technical Approach to Solution 8 Milestone 2 (Technological Solution) 9 Technical Solution 10 Value of SharePoint Implementation 11 Business Process Changes 12 Execution 12 Milestone 3 (Closing) 13 Business Practice 13 Conclusion/Overall Recommendations 14 Implementation Plan 15 Summary 16 References 18 Implementation of an Intranet Site within the Chief Financial Officer Division at the Texas Department of Aging and Disability PROPOSAL Topic The Texas Department of Aging and Disability Services (DADS) provides long-term health care and residential services to the elderly and the intellectually challenged. The Chief Financial Officer (CFO) is responsible for making sure the department has adequate funding from State and Federal levels to render these services accurately. It is very important for employees within the CFO division to all feel they are a part of a collaborative effort in working towards the department’s mission, which is to “provide a comprehensive...
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...Use of Microsoft SharePoint for Configuration Management in IT Organizations In the contemporary business marketplace, the requirement for a technology-based system to provide the tools for global organizations to archive and manage information has become an increasingly present issue. The use of a corporate-wide portal, supported by a collaborative, content management platform, provides an Information Management System (IMS) that culminates organizational information and intellectual capital, document storage, and collaborative workspaces into a single resource, accessible through a centralized portal interface (Microsoft, 2006, p. 14). Configuration Management (CM) encompasses the management of requirements, production, testing, technical documentation, and organizational processes during the lifecycle of a software system’s development. Within Information Technology (IT) organizations, CM defines a series of systematic controls for changes and developments to the software system, which ensure the integrity and traceability of the environment and software configuration throughout the development lifecycle. The CM process is a culmination of activities and support from each level of the organization, ensuring compliance with all applicable standards and guidelines for software development and production. Figure 1. Overview of Configuration and Change Management Process Integral to effective employment of CM processes is collaboration amongst the following cross-functional...
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...Week Six Case Study – Case 1: L’Oreal Knowledge Management Using Microsoft SharePoint 1. What are the challenges facing L’Oreal management? L’Oreal, founded in 1907, is world’s largest cosmetic and beauty company selling globally more than 500 brands. L’Oreal has five worldwide research and development centers spread over France, United States, Japan and China. To link everyone of them on the same platform of information is a difficult task. The intranet for this division must support thousands of researchers working in France, the United States, Japan and China. The intranet is required to support professional applications as well as databases on subjects including biology, patents, hair color and laboratory security. In such a vast network its difficult for teams to communicate. Team members lose interest in commercial activity when they consume more energy in communication. To overcome these hurdles and to manage its largest internet initiative L’Oreal chose SharePoint Portal Server. 2. Make a list of all the functionalities of M@sternet described in the video. What kind of knowledge management system is M@sternet? * Microsoft SharePoint products and technologies include browser based collaboration and a document management platform. These can be used to host web sites that access shared work spaces and documents, as well as specialized applications like wikis and blogs from a browser. * Users are allowed to manipulate proprietary controls or pieces...
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...Research Paper: Enterprise Collaboration Systems Introduction Enterprise Collaboration Systems or ECSs are systems that create team and workgroup collaboration. They enhance communications, productivity and provide support in business operations. Some basic examples of ECSs are e-mail, chat, and videoconferencing (O’Brien & Marakas, 2011). As we dive into this research paper more detailed explanations will be made of what the systems are and how they help organizations collaborate and enhance quality of work. ECSs also include applications that are sometimes called office automation systems, which are systems that create workflows to get rid of paper and create a smoother experience for users (O’Brien & Marakas, 2011). Organizations have many systems and ECSs are not ones to be left out. Information systems perform three vital roles in business firms. They support organization’s business processes and operations, give users more valuable information to help with good business decision making, and create strategic competitive advantages. Information technology, with the help of the Internet, provides us with the avenues to communicate ideas, share resources, and coordinate our cooperative work efforts. The goal of ECSs are to enable us to work together easily and effectively by helping us to, communicate, by sharing information with each other, coordinate, by helping us organize our work efforts and use of resources, and collaborate, by helping us work together cooperatively...
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...New Horizons Computer Learning Center of Cincinnati OFFICIAL MICROSOFT LEARNING PRODUCT 10174A Lab Instructions and Lab Answer Key: Configuring and Administering Microsoft® SharePoint® 2010 New Horizons Computer Learning Center of Cincinnati Information in this document, including URL and other Internet Web site references, is subject to change without notice. Unless otherwise noted, the example companies, organizations, products, domain names, email addresses, logos, people, places, and events depicted herein are fictitious, and no association with any real company, organization, product, domain name, email address, logo, person, place or event is intended or should be inferred. Complying with all applicable copyright laws is the responsibility of the user. Without limiting the rights under copyright, no part of this document may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise), or for any purpose, without the express written permission of Microsoft® Corporation. Microsoft may have patents, patent applications, trademarks, copyrights, or other intellectual property rights covering subject matter in this document. Except as expressly provided in any written license agreement from Microsoft, the furnishing of this document does not give you any license to these patents, trademarks, copyrights, or other intellectual property. The names...
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...L'Oreal decided to use Microsoft SharePoint server to create a global knowledge management and collaboration platform. The system runs on a corporate intranet called M@sternet that spans the globe and coordinates the work of hundreds of teams in over 150 subsidiaries. L=2:57 "The L'Oreal Group is the world's largest cosmetics and beauty company. It is headquartered in the Paris suburb of Clichy, Hauts-de-Seine, France. 96% of L'Oreal revenue is generated from cosmetics, from hair color products to skin care, sun protection, make-up, perfumes and hair care. L'Oreal also is active in the dermatological and pharmaceutical fields. The company was founded in 1907 by Eugene Schueller, a young French chemist, who developed an innovative hair-color formula. In 1920, the small company employed three chemists. By 1950, the research teams were 100 strong; that number reached 1,000 by 1984, and is nearly 2,000 today. While L'Oreal got its start in the hair-color business, the company soon branched out into other cleansing and beauty products. L'Oreal currently markets over 500 brands and many thousands of individual products in all sectors of the beauty business: hair color, permanents, styling aids, body and skin care, cleansers and fragrances. The company's products are found in a wide variety of distribution channels, from hair salons and perfumeries to hyper - and supermarkets, health/beauty outlets, pharmacies and direct mail. L'Oreal has five worldwide research and development...
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...Look in your medicine cabinet. No matter where you live in the world, odds are that you’ll find many Procter & Gamble products that you use every day. P&G is the largest manufacturer of consumer products in the world, and one of the top 10 largest companies in the world by market capitalization. The company is known for its successful brands, as well as its ability to develop new brands and maintain its brands’ popularity with unique business innovations. Popular P&G brands include Pampers, Tide, Bounty, Folgers, Pringles, Charmin, Swiffer, Crest, and many more. The company has approximately 140,000 employees in more than 80 countries, and its leading competitor is Britain-based Unilever. Founded in 1837 and headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio, P&G has been a mainstay in the American business landscape for well over 150 years. In 2009, it had $79 billion in revenue and earned a $13.2 billion profit. P&G’s business operations are divided into three main units: Beauty Care, Household Care, and Health and Well-Being, each of which are further subdivided into more specific units. In each of these divisions, P&G has three main focuses as a business. It needs to maintain the popularity of its existing brands, via advertising and marketing; it must extend its brands to related products by developing new products under those brands; and it must innovate and create new brands entirely from scratch. Because so much of P&G’s business is built around brand creation and management, it’s...
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...L'Oreal: Knowledge Management Using Microsoft SharePoint. Hand in 22 April 2015 Tags: Global brand coordination; sharing business knowledge; collaboration and coordination of effort worldwide; enabling a single community; ease of integration with desktop MS Office. Summary L'Oreal decided to use Microsoft SharePoint server to create a global knowledge management and collaboration platform. The system runs on a corporate intranet called M@sternet that spans the globe and coordinates the work of hundreds of teams in over 150 subsidiaries. URL:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MvWkDXFz0w&NR= Case "The L'Oreal Group is the world's largest cosmetics and beauty company. It is headquartered in the Paris suburb of Clichy, Hauts-de-Seine, France. 96% of L'Oreal revenue is generated from cosmetics, from hair colour products to skin care, sun protection, make-up, perfumes and hair care. L'Oreal also is active in the dermatological and pharmaceutical fields. The company was founded in 1907 by Eugene Schueller, a young French chemist, who developed an innovative hair-colour formula. In 1920, the small company employed three chemists. By 1950, the research teams were 100 strong; that number reached 1,000 by 1984, and is nearly 2,000 today. While L'Oreal got its start in the hair-colour business, the company soon branched out into other cleansing and beauty products. L'Oreal currently markets over 500 brands and many thousands of individual products in all sectors of the beauty business:...
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...L'Oreal: Knowledge Management Using Microsoft SharePoint. Hand in 9 & 11 13 April 2016 Tags: Global brand coordination; sharing business knowledge; collaboration and coordination of effort worldwide; enabling a single community; ease of integration with desktop MS Office. Summary L'Oreal decided to use Microsoft SharePoint server to create a global knowledge management and collaboration platform. The system runs on a corporate intranet called M@sternet that spans the globe and coordinates the work of hundreds of teams in over 150 subsidiaries. URL:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MvWkDXFz0w&NR= Case "The L'Oreal Group is the world's largest cosmetics and beauty company. It is headquartered in the Paris suburb of Clichy, Hauts-de-Seine, France. 96% of L'Oreal revenue is generated from cosmetics, from hair colour products to skin care, sun protection, make-up, perfumes and hair care. L'Oreal also is active in the dermatological and pharmaceutical fields. The company was founded in 1907 by Eugene Schueller, a young French chemist, who developed an innovative hair-colour formula. In 1920, the small company employed three chemists. By 1950, the research teams were 100 strong; that number reached 1,000 by 1984, and is nearly 2,000 today. While L'Oreal got its start in the hair-colour business, the company soon branched out into other cleansing and beauty products. L'Oreal currently markets over 500 brands and many thousands of individual products in all sectors of the beauty...
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...Collaboration and Innovation at Proctor & Gamble Proctor & Gamble is the largest manufacturer of consumer products in the world. P&G has a reputation for developing successful brands and maintaining their popularity with unique business innovations. Beauty Care, Household Care, and Health and Well-being are the three main units of business operations at P&G. Each of these business units are further subdivided into more specific units. P&G has three main focuses as a business in each division. First, it needs to maintain popularity of its existing brands. Second, it must extend its brands to related products by developing new products under those brands. Third, it must innovate and create new brands entirely from scratch. Much of P&G’s business is built around brand creation and management. To effectively run P&G’s business operations, it is critical that they facilitate collaboration between researchers, marketers, and managers. This is the reason that P&G has been actively implementing information systems that foster effective collaboration and innovation. In early 2000, P&G was in disarray and the company’s share price had fallen by nearly 50 percent, wiping out $85 billion in market capital (Lash, 2012). Despite spending heavily on research & development, productivity had plateaued and the company’s innovation success rate was around an unsatisfactory 35 percent (Lash, 2012). When A.G. Lafley became P&G’s CEO in 2000, he recognized that collaboration would be the key...
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...I believe in keeping an open mind, open to new concepts, ideas, and thought as you never know where your learning will take you along this path called life. Just a few years ago, I was sitting at my desk, staring aimlessly at my computer screen quietly working on my mundane administrative work, when my supervisor, for whom I had worked for over 11 years, nicely requested that I follow her. Inquisitive, I slowly entered her executive office mentally wondering what this was all about. With utmost confidence, my boss began to tell me that she had decided to put me in charge of developing a SharePoint site for the unit. My questioning eyes just stared back at her as my mind filled with questions, “what in the world is SharePoint; how in the world...
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...[ SDPS Delivery Guide for Consultants ] [ SharePoint Deployment Planning Service ] Prepared for [ SDPS Delivery Partners ] Sunday, 6 December 2009 Version [ 1.0 ] Prepared by [ SDPS Partner Organization ] [ SDPS@microsoft.com ] Contributors SDPS Delivery Partner Table of Contents 1 INTRODUCTION 3 2 Running the Pre-Upgrade Check STSADM command 4 2.1 Overview 4 2.2 Duration 4 2.3 Requirements 4 2.4 Approach 5 2.5 Deliverables 6 2.6 Related Resources 6 3 Setup a SharePoint 2010 Virtual Machine 7 3.1 Overview 7 3.2 Duration 7 3.3 Requirements 7 3.4 Approach 8 3.5 Deliverables 8 3.6 Related Resources 8 4 Upgrade the Business Data Catalog to Business Connectivity Services 9 4.1 Overview 9 4.2 Duration 9 4.3 Requirements 9 4.4 Approach 9 4.5 Deliverables 10 4.6 Related Resources 10 5 Custom Code and Third Party Component Assessment 11 5.1 Overview 11 5.2 Duration 11 5.3 Requirements 11 5.4 Approach 11 5.5 Deliverables 12 5.6 Related Resources 12 6 Scan a Office SharePoint Server 2007 Content Database 13 6.1 Overview 13 6.2 Duration 13 6.3 Requirements 13 6.4 Approach 13 6.5 Deliverables 13 6.6 Related Resources 14 7 Procure a customer bound SharePoint 2010 small farm 15 7.1 Overview 15 7.2 Duration 15 7.3 Requirements 15 7.4 Approach 16 7.5 Deliverables 16 7.6 Related Resources 16 INTRODUCTION The upgrade offering presents a couple...
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...The Big Data Challenges By Jamia Yant April 19th, 2012 Introduction When Volvo separated from Ford in 2010, it was breaking free from an IT infrastructure that consisted of a tangle of different systems and licenses. The need was there to develop a new stand alone IT infrastructure that could provide better Business Intelligence, boost communication capabilities and enrich collaborations. Volvo Car Corporation Integrates the Cloud into Its Networks The ability to collectively harness the wealth of data being mined was invaluable. Volvo collects terabytes of data from embedded sensors in their cars, from their customer relationship management (CRM) systems, from dealerships, product development and design systems and from their production/factory floors. Volvo then, via the cloud, transfers and archives this Big Data to its Volvo Data Warehouse where it can be stored for Long Term Archival and Retrieval or it can be accessed by Volvo’s employees. In 2010, Volvo stretched across eight main business units and twelve support areas with production plants in 19 countries. The platform used to link employees at the business units, support and production plants together are done via Volvo’s cloud with Saas software as a user interface and display. They have employee web portals, as well as supplier and vendor web portals to improve collaboration. Volvo has a high-performance infrastructure that includes parallel multi-processing, high-speed networking, and...
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...Case Study Collaboration and Innovation at Procter and Gamble (Chapter 2) 1: What is Procter & Gamble’s business strategy? What is the relationship of collaboration and innovation to that business strategy? Procter and Gamble strategy is to maintain the popularity of its existing brands and in developing new products by extending existing brands and by creating new brands from scratch via innovation. It innovation is at the top of Procter and Gamble’s strategy and collaboration is a critical part to attaining this innovation. In order to constantly come up with new lines of products, Procter and Gamble must incorporate innovation in every aspect of its business. All objectives and business processes must be aligned in a way to foster and generate innovation. And the most critical tool in attaining such alignments is collaboration. Procter and Gamble is one of the top 10 largest companies in the world, operating in over 80 countries so it is very important to attain successful innovation, to develop a cooperative and collaborative environment so as to encourage sharing of ideas and resources and avoid duplication of efforts. Better collaboration results in faster and more efficient brainstorming across locations, and faster generation and sharing of ideas and feedback, this in turn leads to savings in Research and Development costs. Collaboration helps maximize efficiency, encourage communication across locations and ultimately foster innovation. 2: How is P&G...
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