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Positive Influencer or Bulldozer?
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Excerpt from A-CHIEVE! (July 2011)
Do you use your power of positive persuasion or negative persuasion when selling your ideas and influencing your co-workers?
Check out our side-by-side comparison and evaluate yourself, or better yet, ask one or more co-workers, who will be candid and open with you, to objectively assess you!
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Why ShareVis?
Posted by: |What is ShareVis?
ShareVis is a user friendly point-and-click solution that sits on top of (and integrates with) SharePoint for organizations who are serious about operating Faster, Better, Smarter, Cheaper.
Why ShareVis?
| IT’S FASTER… |
- Automate your most complex business processes in hours vs. weeks and months
- Define successful repeatable steps that deliver consistent positive outcomes vs. reinventing each and every time and hoping for the best
- Provide easy access to forms and documents that everyone can leverage vs. wasting time searching for and/or recreating documents
| IT’S BETTER… |
- Create pipeline transparency for high-value processes vs. operating in ‘a black hole’ (as an example, it’s a great project pipeline intake, management and delivery solution)
- Establish and measure against targeted outcomes and clear accountabilities vs. manage against subjective, evasive and nebulous expectations
- Optimize your existing SharePoint investment in a value-add, cost-effective, goal-attainment way vs. sinking more programming code dollars into a hard-to-use base product
| IT’S SMARTER… |
- Manage ‘by exception’ through automated alerts and dashboarding vs. trying to manage everything through information overload
- Become self sufficient where business/non technical people can easily create workflows, dashboards, alerts, forms and document management and collaboration communities
- Increase IT”s value proposition by offering a high impact, easy-to-use business solution that is not IT programming dependent
| IT’S CHEAPER… |
- Significantly reduce your future SharePoint development costs (low/no code)
- Reduce your programming rework expenses as you upgrade to future SharePoint versions
- Take advantage of ShareVis’ ’licensed per server’ vs. ‘licensed per user’ model
Why aren’t more consulting companies advertising ShareVis?
Many consulting/contracting companies are not pushing ShareVis like we are because ShareVis significantly lessens an organization’s reliance on SharePoint developers – which is the ‘bread and butter’ for many consulting/contracting companies. We’re introducing our clients to this product because our goal is to provide our clients with faster, better, cheaper, smarter solutions that materially accelerate business goal attainment. At the conclusion of virtual or on-site ShareVis Training (which we offer), the Business and IT can be 100% productive in ShareVis/SharePoint Day 1. Eric Hutchinson, our SharePoint/ShareVis expert plus certified trainer, is credited with many accomplishments including his recent SharePoint-as-a-business-solution/ShareVis Training roll-out to Kaiser Permanente’s 13 regions/2,600 users.
Who uses ShareVis?
ShareVis’ client list includes American Airlines, Lockheed Martin, Heinz, Sony, Pfizer, US Bank, Fujifilm, The Library of Congress, United States Special Operations Command, Edwards Airforce Base, Elgin Airforce Base plus many more large, mid size plus small businesses across a variety of industries.
Want to learn more about ShareVis?
Please contact us if you’d like to schedule a ShareVis demo plus allow us the opportunity to automate one of your complex business processes so you can experience ShareVis’ easy-to-use and quick-to-implement feature-rich capabilities. Contact us at 440.248.7488.
“Top 3″ Forward-Looking Trends
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Excerpt from A-CHIEVE! (May 2011)
UNLEASH CREATIVITY | MOBILIZE TALENT | CAPITALIZE ON COLLECTIVE INTELLLIGENCE
“…while businesses have traditionally managed their workforces with an eye toward operational efficiency, they have not necessarily done so with the creativity, flexibility and speed to capitalize on the growth opportunities that spring from an ever-more dynamic global marketplace.”
Working Beyond Borders, IBM Study, 2010 | Summary Insights from 700 organizations across 61 countries
We thank companies like IBM who have the capital and reach to conduct expansive and thoughtful global surveys and share results with us so we can leverage their work within our own organizational microcosms. Unfortunately, great surveys like “Working Beyond Borders” come and go with little fanfare because we read a title, and in our age of information overload, quickly decide “Oh, that doesn’t apply to me and my organization because:
- We don’t have a global footprint
- Our industry and culture are unique
- We’re just fine the way we are
- The study is ‘blue sky’ thinking
- IBM is just trying to sell their services”
– when, in fact, the over-arching concepts apply to each and every one of us. Even more ironic, the study’s first of three challenges – cultivating creative leaders – defined as “nimbly leading in complex global environments”, speaks to our inability of being open to then creatively translating (connect-the-dots between) high-level concepts, trends and statistics into goal-driven, realistic and practical strategies and tactics that scream competitive advantage, unique differentiators, exceptional results, continuous improvement and marketplace relevancy. We love studies like IBM’s because we are anecdotally seeing and experiencing within small, mid size and large organizations, exactly what the study’s 707 Chief Human Resource Officers (CHRO) and Workforce Strategists are seeing and experiencing across the globe. So what are the “top 3″ challenges and how can they be remediated?
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