Portals and Collaboration

The Department for Planning, Transport and Infrastructure (DPTI) Library recently hosted their first ‘Lunch and Learn’ session for 2017 with a deep-dive into emerging technologies at the Office for Design + Architecture on Leigh St. Chamonix, in partnership with Cortex Interactive, were invited to present on, and demonstrate the application of, Virtual and Augmented Reality solutions to guests from across Government and industry.

This blog provides a journey starting with Excel and its promotion to BI, it moves on to Power BI version 2 and concludes with a much larger Azure analytical story.

Several years ago I was working at a law firm managing the BI team. It was a law firm that was really trying to push the boundaries of technology and to leverage technology as a differentiator with their competitors.

Think First: Strategic Planning Having done a great deal of SharePoint implementation work in recent times, it’s been a welcome change to spend the last couple of months working on strategic plans, roadmaps and reviews. Developing or refreshing any strategy is always interesting and intellectually challenging, and the diversity of requirements, expectations and issues that manifest from one company to the next is endlessly fascinating.

The best advice I can give anyone for success with SharePoint over the long term is to embrace it and enjoy the journey. Journey? That’s right, just like business itself, SharePoint isn’t something you every really finish, but is always a work in progress.  Sometimes a journey can be a drag, it’s true (uncomfortable beds/bedfellows, dubious food, forever packing up and moving on to the next location and usually just when you feel most settled, communication issues, etc.). But being open to exploration and discovery can bring substantial rewards.

Hiking your way through the peaks and valleys of SharePoint?  Need a guide or three?  Here are some URLs where you’ll find great blogging minds applying fingers to keyboard on all things SharePoint.  Only minimally grouped, and in no particular order …

There’s also, still, a surprisingly enduring bias towards technically-focused resources where SharePoint is concerned, which underestimates and undervalues the critical importance of business-focused resourcing for success. (Just scan this list of posts on this topic that Jeremy Thake has been capturing and hopefully you’ll see what I mean: http://www.diigo.com/user/jthake/roles)

Goodness gracious, it's governance!