SharePoint Intranet Jumpstart

Whether you are an enterprise organization, a small business, or somewhere in between, it's likely you've heard that SharePoint Online is one of the industry's leading platforms for collaboration, functionality, and scalability. As an intranet platform, SharePoint allows your departments to own a centralized space where announcements and resources are accessible and structured. As an extranet portal, Total Solutions allows your organization a safe and secure option to share information with clients who would traditionally be outside of the organization. By pairing the capabilities of SharePoint with intentional design and planning, your company might be closer than you ever imagined to a robust Intranet solution.  
 
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  • Collaborate

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  • Organize

imageedit_39_7981619184Your organization deserves a dedicated online environment where employees can easily search for the information and resources they need. An intranet allows departments to instantly collaborate, which encourages teams to work together regardless of location. With the M365 environment, users are equipped with a host of tools including, document version controls, announcements, wikis, and notifications to ensure collaboration happens with ease. 

imageedit_35_4768485722Within SharePoint Online, communication can take place across the whole organization or directly within specific teams thanks to Newsfeeds and Announcements. These native features allow departments, such as HR, to push company-wide updates regarding policy information, while Sales can closely work on tweaking the latest contract templates before publishing to the rest of the organization.  

imageedit_37_5458958304Through the use of metadata and native features, search in SharePoint Online can help solve the age-old issue of users not finding the information they need. Powerful search functionality makes all the difference when it comes to consolidating your data and navigating document libraries. 

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Project Kickoff Activities

 

The kickoff activities for your company will look different from others, so we need to define the project metrics and deliverables. What is your end goal and definition of success? From here, we can start map out the future state and carry out the correct deliverables during the strategic design workshops. Our secret to success it building with an agile methodology, following our stories system and participatory design. 

 

Strategic Design Workshops & Backlog Creation

Deliverable: Two (2) One-hour Remote Design Sessions via Microsoft Teams and a list of actionable activities to be developed against during the Intranet prototype dev sprint


Deliverable: One Backlog that consists of a list of features, functionality, tasks and activities identified during strategic design to be developed against. 

 

 

Intranet Prototype Development Sprint

a. Deliverable: SharePoint Online Intranet with Homepage, 5 Department Pages, permissions and out of the box branding. i. Sprint Planning Meeting ii. Intranet Development iii. Quality Check iv. Sprint Demonstration v. User Acceptance Testing

 

 

 

Refinements & Deployment

In order to reach the metrics we defined during the planning stage, we need to refine any deliverable before deployment. This will look different for every project, but options include giving your team time to test prior to a launch and feedback sessions to ensure your team is set for success.

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Choose the best templates for your site to display leadership connections, perspective and more. Check out the different templates available for your custom site and Total Solutions can help your organization with implementation.

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SharePoint Extranets

If your business relies on the ability to share content outside of your organization with clients, various stakeholders, and trusted partners, then you know the impact that a carefully crafted extranet can have. 

By using SharePoint as your B2B extranet solution, you can provide partners and clients with the content they need in a single location, and not have to compromise the security of your tenant. This also alleviates the need for constant email threads, trading documents back and forth. A M365 B2B extranet comes with auditing capabilities that allow you to verify who can access your content. 

SOLUTION

At Total Solutions, we understand that you want to get the most out of your intranet investment. By helping you build your intranet in an Agile Development instead of a waterfall approach, we focus on incremental iterations to reduce risk and create products that are launchable and flexible throughout development.

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CONSULTING PROCESS

Total Solutions Stories System is a design, development, and feedback cycle that emphasizes participatory design, a cadence of iterative activity, and frequent engagement with key technology users. 

 

 

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