Michael Sampson recently commented on a statement that SharePoint 2013 had an increased focus on encouraging user adoption.

Michael rightly points out that:

“improvements in features may reduce barriers to usability, but the encouragement of user adoption per se is up to people in the organization who are introducing SharePoint. SharePoint”

 

I wholeheartedly agree with Michael on this. Bells and whistles (aka features) can seem to be enticing to new users, but without strong top-down enthusiasm for a product/way of working, with a real business application, the chances of user adoption are considerably less.

In his post Michael also mentions his collaboration strategy book, and his user adoption book. I will be open here – I have not read them…yet.

However I know what I’ll be asking Santa for this Christmas year.

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