Adoption Strategies

In this section we will explore some high-level strategies that can be used to promote adoption of the system. These are general techniques for structuring the overall approach for driving adoption. In the sections that follow we will describe some more tactical techniques for driving adoption in the communication and training plans for the site.

Start Small

A major hindrance to adoption is overwhelming the users with features they do not understand or that the organization is not prepared to support. SharePoint is a large (okay, huge!) product. Dumping the entire toolset on a group of unprepared users is like turning a bunch of children loose in a room full of dangerous power tools. The best that you can hope for is that ...

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