WHY IS THIS IMPORTANT TO ME?

SharePoint can potentially represent many concepts to an organization from Web, Document, Records Management, Workflow and Search. SharePoint 2007 is a journey through evolutionary phases to meet business strategy requirements. Technology supports business and Concept can help define the enterprise fit.

Blue Sky Workshops, deliver focus to your internal stakeholders and business units through value discovery sessions that draw out business needs and challenges. Through interactive sessions with your teams, each solution concept is mapped against its impact to the business goals in a matrix format, allowing business units to identify areas most strategic to their core offerings. This foundational matrix connects strategic priorities set by each division and stakeholder of the organization - providing the right technology direction in the right place.

 

TARGET AUDIENCE

CEOs, CFOs, COOs, CIOs and Technical/Non-Technical Directors, Managers

THE APPROACH

PART 1

Qualify Issues and Challenges

PART 2

Identify Departmental Priorities

PART 3

Define Tactical Approach

PART 4

Determine Phased Delivery

PART 5

Communicate In-context Benefits

KEY OUTCOMES:

Technology Direction

Find the fit between the actual business challenges and the technology feature sets.

Strategic Direction

Connect the technology features to the tactical avenues towards helping business achieve fiscal priorities.

Business Buy-In

Discover the high-visibility initiatives that can form the testimonial points for the organization for better buy-in.

 

 

WHY IS THIS IMPORTANT TO ME?

SharePoint will move you from a information silo approach to a collaborative framework that supports people, process and information. MOSS 2007's out-of-the-box capabilities includes document management, records management, and web content management. Great, but where do you start and to add more complexity you may already have an ECM product in place. Concept can help you understand how to best connect content, processes and the document / record lifecycles to form an ECM Strategy.

Information Management Planning, zeros in on the high-value solutions that will most cohesively support the organization during the content lifecycle. Working through the business processes connected to information management, allows the customer to understand how similar MOSS 2007 projects can be optimally structured. This approach will result in a reduced cost of deploying information management accross the enterprise.

TARGET AUDIENCE

CIOs, Information Workers, IT Professionals and Records Managers

THE APPROACH

PART 1

Evaluate Existing Content 

PART 2

Identify Departmental Priorities

PART 3

Plan the Correct Approach

PART 4

Gain Business Buy-In  

PART 5

Form Business Case

KEY OUTCOMES:

Content Lifecycle Analysis 

Understand the lifecycle of information in your organization and the information management support required to provide a cohesive solution.

ECM Prioritization and Planning

Effectively positions initiatives to prevent roadblocks in future phases of ECM Delivery

Business Buy-In

Discover high-visibility initiatives that form connecting points between the organization and technical fit for better buy-in.

 

 

WHY IS THIS IMPORTANT TO ME?

In search of continual improvement, more organizations are looking to workflow to standardize process for greater productivity and profitability. With the introduction of workflow in SharePoint 2007, Concept can reduce the cost of delivering business process management. By aligning priorities and refining business processes, Concept can assist in building the strategy for automation.

BPM Strategy Workshops, support the vision for an auditable, process management foundation by aligning initiatives within the enterprise or simply for a single business unit. Working with the internal stakeholders in the organization, Concept can help define priority by mapping the existing process to the departmental goals of the unit.

 

TARGET AUDIENCE

Corporate Leadership (CIOs, CFOs, CEOs), Departmental Leadership (i.e. Director/Manager, HR), Process Participants

THE APPROACH

PART 1

Catalogue Process Opportunities

PART 2

Define Prioritization by Value

PART 3

Align Technical Approach

PART 4

Gain Business Buy-In

PART 5

Form Business Case

KEY OUTCOMES:

Line of Business or Enterprise BPM Strategy

Defining overall direction and outlining any strategic patterns within your processes.

Process Prioritization

Understanding where to begin and what approach to take by aligning business goals and objectives with the enterprise through a process matrix.

Cost Effective Delivery

By aligning process automation opportunities, patterns can be identified that will reduce delivery cost and improve long-term sustainability and profitability.

 

 

WHY IS THIS IMPORTANT TO ME?

Collecting and connecting information is the foundation for SharePoint 2007. Concept has helped organizations such as Ontario Power Generation and Upper Canada District School Board; connect staff knowledge with existing collaboration to realize an improved knowledge management strategy.

Collaborative Knowledge Workshops, demonstrates the business impact of collaboration on knowledge management for the organization. The engagement considers the existing process of sharing in the organization defining better ways to use SharePoint 2007 to capture, repurpose and manage knowledge.

TARGET AUDIENCE

Corporate Leadership (CIOs, CFOs, CEOs), Departmental Leadership (i.e. Director/Manager, HR) and Information Workers

THE APPROACH

PART 1

Evaluate Existing Content

PART 2

Identify Knowledge Loss

PART 3

Prioritize

PART 4

Gain Business Buy-In

PART 5

Form Business Case

KEY OUTCOMES:

Collaboration and Knowledge Process Catalogue

Defining the existing processes that could be supported through an enhanced collaborative environment.

Knowledge Loss Areas

Outlines any key areas at risk of losing knowledge or where efforts are being repeated to create information already in place.

Business Value Assessment

Planning for the implementation of the Collaboration and knowledge management solution and assessment of the potential ROI using the Gartner GECM Framework.