SharePoint Online Records Management – Automation Options
Updated: Sep 6, 2020 Many organizations still try to use paper-principles to manage electronic records. They tell staff to identify, capture, and classify records, and are then surprised when this doesn´t happen. Staff are often too busy doing their job than worrying about compliance. It´s therefore time for change since compliance needs to be by design. […]
Records Management with Microsoft Teams
Updated: Sep 6, 2020 Some of the files shared in Teams will be records that needs to be retained and protected. When you create Teams, a SharePoint Online site is automatically created for storing the Teams channel files. The key to managing records in Office 365 is not SharePoint Online, but retention and record labels. […]
Records Management in SharePoint Online – Planning
What is this article about? The records management capabilities of SharePoint Online with record labels has now become mature enough to meet the records management requirements of most large enterprises. Let me give you two examples: One of our global clients operating in a highly regulated industry with almost 40,000 users assessed several of the […]
An Information Governance Template for O365 – a 360° framework for ongoing improvement
Updated: Aug 1, 2020 Information governance is about better managing information assets, not just ensuring compliance. Information Governance (IG) seeks to meet the needs of the total organization (Compliance, IT, and lines of business) with optimized information management practices. “Information governance includes decision rights and an accountability framework to encourage desirable behaviour in the valuation, […]
Managing information in Office 365 – the 5 keys to success
Information is the new “oil” for the digital age that can be used to add value, minimize risks, reduce costs, and identify new opportunities. But information is often locked down in multiple data and content silos. The implementation of cloud platforms like Office 365 is an opportunity to change this and turn information into an […]
Prepare for the Digital Transformation of
Network Drives – User Level
Updated:Sep 6, 2020 Previous Post:Prepare for the Digital Transformation of Network Drives – Enterprise Level Previous Post:Prepare for the Digital Transformation of Network Drives – Workgroup Level Naming conventions are not just polite. These dos and don’ts are helpful for human beings using the file shares, but they also help establish criteria that indexing software […]
Prepare for the Digital Transformation of
Network Drives – Enterprise Level
Updated: Sep 6, 2020 The first step in cleaning a shared drive is to make sure the right people are involved. Cleaning and organizing the content on shared drives requires input from a number of constituencies. All of the following groups will benefit from an organized share drive, so they should all be willing to participate […]
Prepare for the Digital Transformation of
Network Drives – Workgroup level
Updated:Sep 6, 2020 Previous Post:Prepare for the Digital Transformation of Network Drives – Enterprise Level Departmental or workgroup shares have evolved over time, usually with little guidance or structure. Often, at the root level, we find file structures organized around: Organizational units identified with acronyms. Organizational units and acronyms change over time, making indexing and […]
Digital Transformation at Warp Speed
On an earning’s call a week ago, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella noted that during April, driven by the need for organizations to quickly come up with a remote working and collaboration platform, the Teams platform added 31 million new daily users – in a single month. To put the hockey stick nature of that […]
Transforming Network Shared Drives for M365
Updated: May 24, 2020 The largest collection of unstructured and ungoverned content in most organizations is the shared network drive. The mere existence of this content means that your organization is likely under-compliant in a number of critical areas, mostly because this information is so hard to see and manage. It is therefore also difficult to […]
