Governance
A challenge for companies today is deciding who owns the collaborative and social environments in our company – is it IT or the business? In the case of collaboration tools and social tools, it's the business, as IT is only a part of the governance stakeholder community. SharePoint is included due to how widespread the data that could be included in the content on-premises and on the cloud. This reaches across mobile, desktop, and web platforms presented to our employees every day.
The other challenge is managing those available apps and enterprise solutions and bringing the best solutions to our customers and departments within our entity. We should never go into any project without first seeing how it reflects on our enterprise and the data that is presented in that solution. As stated, if you miss the mark on governance, you will fail the implementation.
As part of our environment assessment in this chapter, we need to take a look at governance...