Consulting - Strategy, Roadmaps, Reviews

Strategy, Roadmaps & Reviews

Time to get or refresh your plan?
Let us help build the business case, roadmap
that sees you implement well

Where are you up to?

Just getting started?

Find out about our scoping documents and roadmaps, to cover all the bases and understand the risk points

Under-way, not going so well?

Let us do an IT health check, or fuller review and roadmap to get you back on track

Going well so far, what's next?

Talk to us about getting more
from your great start with
training, features, strategy and roll-out tactics

SharePoint is very flexible and powerful. However, many implementations fail to reach their potential because they are treated as just IT projects, or completely devolved to operational teams to figure out what to do. There is a middle way, and it works. Let us help you be deliberate about:


	Strategy and Roadmap	An information management strategy links your project to business drivers/problems and emerging trends in Enterprise Content Management (ECM). This helps get the funds and leadership backing to make the project a success story. Find the right way to align internet, intranet, document management and knowledge management initiatives.

	Implementation Tactics	Be aware of your options when you are getting started. How would progressive implementation work? What about targeting key areas and processes first? How self sufficient do you want to be and what are the up/down sides to consider? Draw on our experience with 40+ SharePoint implementations plus advice and experience with 50+ implementations using other platforms including open source and off-the-shelf systems.

	Governance	How do you set up the roles, responsibilities, measures, security and permissions to stop your implementation going feral - because most of them do. Let us help you get the right combination of carrot and stick, rules of thumb, policies and procedures etc.

	Information Design & Taxonomies	SharePoint implementations often fail because it is too hard for users to file and find information. We have designed over 100 taxonomies in a wide range of sectors. Let us create one for you or support/coach you in getting the skills to do this yourself, and then link it to SharePoint assets.

	Change Management	SharePoint and its web interface may well be easier to use than a traditional EDRMS. However, users may still sideline it for a number of reasons. We have targeted change management tactics and plans that can be shaped for your situation.

	Recordkeeping	Even if your focus is intranet, internet or social networks, the management of content over time is important. Let us help you identify and manage all content appropriately - so you reduce business risk, become compliant and do it as simply and cheaply as possible.

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Knowledge Transfer is a priority, so you can use our tools and thinking

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What was done? "The team at ILC assisted ERMA with our SharePoint installation of an EDRMS"

How did it help? "We were not sure at the start just how to map our requirements pertaining to records into SharePoint. Grant, Jos, David and Anita were all critical throughout the process – from taxonomy construction, change management through to server build. ILC’s professionalism, experience and hard work was critical for what has been a tremendous success"

"I appreciated the practical and pragmatic approach taken – we weren’t after a Rolls Royce, we wanted a solution that just worked the way we do – we now have an application that is ‘fit for purpose’. With SP 2010 just around the corner, we now have a wonderful platform to build from"

Mark Harris
ERMA