This document outlines a presentation on designing engaging portals. It introduces the speaker and their experience building Office 365 and SharePoint solutions. The presentation agenda discusses getting executive buy-in, running effective requirement workshops, and UX strategies. It also covers diffusion of innovation adoption curves and how to increase adoption. Effective requirement gathering techniques are explained, like using personas and empathy maps. The presentation emphasizes designing for the user experience and personalization. Metrics and a roadmap for success are recommended to drive results.
9. Agenda
• How to get executives engaged early and ensuring they don’t get in
the way
• How to effectively run requirement gathering workshops that are not
IT focused
• What UX strategies are effective in delivering intuitive user
experiences
• And much more
10. About Me
Some work related highlights
• Founder of 2toLead
• Focused on building innovative solutions for Office 365
and Azure
• Global Yammer Partner
• Microsoft Cloud Productivity Partner candidate
• We have delivered over 12 projects within 6 months of
launching
• World’s 1st Accessible (AODA compliant) Media Player
• Digital Asset Management solution on top of SharePoint 2013
• Intranet Portal(s)
Kanwal Khipple
11. About Me
Contributions to the community
• 5x SharePoint MVP / Office 365 MVP (2014) / Accessibility MVP
• Co-Founder of Toronto SharePoint Business User Group
• SharePoint Saturday Toronto (5 years)
• Co-Author on Professional SharePoint 2013 Branding & Responsive
Web Development
• 2x Nielson Norman Award Recipient (2015 / 2014)
• Mentoring those interested in learning
• @kkhipple
Kanwal Khipple
2015
18. Stakeholder Workshops
• 2 day workshop
• 5-12 Stakeholders
• Discuss their biggest pain points
• Alignment of their Strategic Goals
• How to drive ROI
• Commitment and scheduled follow ups
22. Innovators Early
Adopters
Early Majority Late Majority Laggards
Show off late Exclusive
Preview
Widespread
communication –
generate buzz
Make it easier(reduce
features)
Refine based on earlier
adoption lessons
Pilot Access Showcase
employees
Executive’s
Communication
Low-risk Give control over how &
when
Let them
experiment
Recruit
Champions
Help & Support Talk to current
adopters
No commitment trial
23.
24. Biggest Factors in Low Adoption?
• Not letting your employees be a part of the journey
• Asking for feedback too early
• Executives are not part of the conversation
41. Results as you type – ability to get results
immediately without going to the search
results page
Images to classify type of result. People,
documents, FAQs, etc.
44. How do we collaborate?
Reading and
answering emails
28%
Searching and gathering
information
19%
Communicating and
collaborativey internally
14%
Role-specific tasks
39%
53. Roadmap
• Ensure everyone understands the vision
• Define metrics that are measured pre and post-launch
• Infuse Champions into your project
• Execute activities that focus on pivoting the culture
• Leverage the platform (OOTB-first & training-second approach)
• Ensure you continue to drive adoption via daily and weekly initiatives
post launch
54. Drive Results
• Working is learning and learning is working
• Shift to an open and collaborative, connected, “social” learning
environment
• Leadership means sharing, teaching, and learning
• Innovation is part of everybody’s daily work
• Create a new culture of self-driven life-long learning
55. Thank You
We’d love to hear from you:
Kanwal Khipple
kanwal@2toLead.com
416-888-7777
56. Upcoming Sessions
• Tues 9AM Richard Harbridge – the Social Enterprise in a Cloud-First &
Mobile-First World
• Tues 10:30AM Michael Caldwell – Shifting the Paradigm of Requirements
Gathering
• Tues 2:30PM Kanwal Khipple – 10 Reasons Why Yammer is an Effective
Onboarding Tool
• Tues 4PM Dan Holme – SharePoint in Action. What we did at NBC Olympics
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Do you know how much time, resources and funds go into the launch of a rocket
Space Shuttle program cost about US$170 billion (2008 dollars) through early 2008; the average cost per flight was about US$1.5 billion.
No one starts a project with the intent of building an ugly intranet. We always have good intentions to build the best communication and collaboration portal the company has ever seen. We ensure that executives and end users are involved to design and implement from a portal based on their experience.
What ends up happening? Portals are built with too many links to content or even stale content, images that take too long to load or are generic. You even had good intentions to leverage many features and perhaps some are even using it.
What you typically find is that after the initial buzz of the launch, adoption fails. Why is that? If that sounds like what you recently went through, then attend this session to learn the strategies and implement them tomorrow.
Learn the key principles in building innovative solutions that are simple but capture user’s attention and increase adoption.
By the end of the session, you’ll learn
How to get executives engaged early and ensuring they don’t get in the way
How to effectively run requirement gathering workshops that are not IT focused
What UX strategies are effective in delivering intuitive user experiences
And much more
This session will be filled with examples and there will be giveaways to those that share their own journey.
How many reports have stated that success is driven by leadership?
How to get executives engaged early and ensuring they don’t get in the way
Executives are critical. Show reliance / importance of executives being what holds the project’s success. Bottom of the triangle. Chain to bind all chains. One ring to rule them all
What happens when executives linger around all the time? You get an executive who hovers. Depends the project go there. Everyone else stops talking and starts listening. Agreeing to what the executive has to say.
That doesn’t mean we give executives what they want.
Bass Forecasting Model
How to effectively run requirement gathering workshops that are not IT focused
Risks
It starts with ppl
Image of Gamestorming book
What UX strategies are effective in delivering intuitive user experiences
http://www.slideshare.net/DigitalWorkplaceGroup/31-intranet-homepage-design-examples-with-screenshots?related=1
Whether your org has a BYOD policy in place or not, the reality is there’s only so much you can control.
If you are controlling the devices they use, then you will find it difficult to control / lock down the browsers they have installed
If you control the browsers, then you’ll find it hard to control the sites they visit and the web technologies that sites restrict.
Realistically, in 2014, BYOD is not a trend but the past and expectation from your workforce.
KANWAL
Bruce Lee had a great quote
“ empty your mind, be formless, shapeless like water
Now you put water in a cup, it becomes the cup; You put water into a bottle it ...
This important to consideration when you are considering content and your targeted user experiences
opportunity to raise the productivity of interaction workers
1/3 of our week is spent on reading, replying and managing email
The foundation of crowdsourcing is built on trust. Trust the crowd.
Social amplifies voice and choice
Great culture attracts great employees
Whose taller - Ryan Reynolds (winner) or ryan gosling?
In reality, the intranet has had the biggest impact on social features. Not mobile
As employees become more connected, they’ve had
Social is about unlocking conservations and providing more context
Instead of having conversations on a one ot one basis via email
Your going to get much more value if those discussions are open. As the context is richer
Ownership is the other aspect of social success
KANWAL
KANWAL
history of personalization
2007 – mysites / portals for individual users
2010 – my team sites
2013 – my organization / our company
Today and beyond - Personalize your search
Keeping an eye on search history, and targeting content based on that
Keeping an analytics, and providing content that people are searching
What are some of the actions based on the portal
http://7hgxbv.axshare.com/#p=home
KANWAL
Success isn’t measured by delivering a portal. Success is measured by continually driving results.
Diverse IT platforms make consistency extremely difficult
Lack of integration
New home page?
Measureable goals
How to achieve success?
Content Strategy
Content Publishing Schedule
Recruit Content Authors
Content Migration
Build an experience
Don’t build a design
We are one of a consulting services company based out of Toronto, ON. We focus on Business Strategy, User Experience and Technology expertise to help transform organizations like yours.
We strive to build innovative solutions.
Our approach is centered on working in partnership with you to deliver results.