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Microsoft SharePoint for Business Executives: Q&A Handbook

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Microsoft SharePoint for Business Executives: Q&A Handbook

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Microsoft SharePoint for Business Executives: Q&A Handbook
Credits
Foreword
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Funny you should say that...


This section explains some typical follow up questions you may have once you start to think about governance and how to begin with writing policies and procedures.

Q: How do you define "just enough governance"?

A: This will vary depending on the organization and industry. For readers who are within the IT industry, your job is business-driven by the following four goals:

  • Making sure IT is aligned to the organization's business needs. Or even better, making sure IT is acting as part of the business and is not seen as an outsider.

  • Delivering IT to the business.

  • Managing IT risks at acceptable levels.

  • Complying with IT external regulations.

To apply these goals with this balance of "just enough governance", your mantra should be:

  • Go slow to go fast: You will succeed more quickly in the end if you don't try to govern everything all at once.

  • Prioritize: Get the SharePoint enterprise mission-critical application into a governance framework, and leave the department contact...