Short and sweet this one: It simply amazes me how many SharePoint partners do not grasp a simple truth - CIO's are busy people, under pressure to deliver services quickly and efficiently to an impatient business audience. Time is of the essence! Add to this the issue that CIOs are required to justify initial investment in the technology of SharePoint and we have a clear issue - partners start delivering. Yet so many partners treat every new SharePoint project as if they are attempting to map the human genome from scratch.
The CIO challenge with SharePoint is to provide the greatest, most cohesive and most effective range of business services to their organisation, for the investment made. All too often Salem Consulting witnesses other partner solutions created in isolation that satisfy the needs of only a minority of business users, with no follow-on plan. A CIO wishes to sweat the assets of SharePoint and demonstrate a real return on investment in terms of licensing and infrastructure. This is also true of SharePoint in the cloud. To solve this challenge, The Salem Process provides any CIO with a unique, logical framework which easily translates into a set of business service deliverables. If you are looking to maximize your SharePoint investment for your organisation you need to be talking to us or with one of our Salem partners today.
Many established partners are entrenched in a SharePoint solution design and delivery process that is archane, long-winded, frustrating and does not harness the knowledge garnered over numerous projects. It is time that this situation changed, quickly.
