8:00 a.m.
Continental Breakfast & Networking

8:30 a.m.

Governance, Not just A Buzz Word:  
Lessons Learned Over 10 Years of SharePoint
at General Mills

General Mills has been an adopter of SharePoint from version one of the product, and has 10+ years of experience defining SharePoint’s role within General Mills.  With this maturity the environment has been adopted by the organization as the ECM, collaboration and search platform of choice.  With over 30,000 sites spanning multiple versions of SharePoint, General Mills has been forced to clearly define processes and best practices around its service offering and governance of the SharePoint platform. 

In this session, you will learn Best Practices spanning the various phases of a SharePoint deployment project including:

• Governance Processes
• Taxonomy and Feature Deployments
• User Self Service and Creating “Fences”
• External Access
• Enterprise Records Management
• Stage Gating Custom Solutions

Scott Yokiel, Staff Consultant
general mills

9:15 a.m.

Spreading The Magic: Using SharePoint as a Platform to Effectively Leverage Mobile Solutions

*** LIVE DEMO/SCREENSHOTS! ***

Come and find out how the world's leader in family entertainment applies its "Four Keys" quality standards to many internal operations in the growing mobile space. You will learn the story of the magnitude of the Disney environment, it's complexity, the internal user expectations and some of the challenges faced while spanning three continents with multi-lingual and multi-cultural requirements. 

Find out how Disney sprinkled a touch of pixie dust on their infrastructure to use SharePoint as a platform supporting mobile field auditing needs in both technical and non-technical environments.  You will also learn how Disney simplified communication between leaders and their Cast Member teams in this same environment. 

Through Disney's experiences, you will learn:

• How to simplify communication between leaders and employee teams
  
• How to leverage SharePoint 2010 as a platform, and mobile solutions that leverage Apple's IOS, Android, and Windows devices
• How to enable internal teams to provide that special behind the scenes "magic" to make your own customer experiences so memorable

Shawn Boling, Knowledge Management Strategist
Walt Disney

9:45 a.m.

Idea Exchange: Questions, Feedback, Collaboration

9:55 a.m.

Morning Refreshment & Networking Break

10:00 a.m.

How To Govern The People/Process
Side Of SharePoint

*** SCREENSHOTS! ***

Knowing who does what and establishing good policy, guidelines and strategy is crucial to getting the most out of SharePoint. Many SharePoint implementations fail because of a lack of good governance. Good governance starts with the people and processes that support your intranet. Learn what other organizations are doing to:

• Connect intranet strategy to the business
  
• Identify, formalize and measure the right roles
  
• Integrate the right policy and guidelines
  
• Measure overall and business-specific ROI

Stacy Wilson, ABC President
Eloquor Consulting

Jeannine Moran, Global Senior Director, HR Technology & Services
Newmont Mining Corporation

10:30 a.m.

The Bottom Line: Calculating The Value Of Your Intranet To Your Organization

*** SCREENSHOTS! ***

Creating something of value is the ultimate goal of your business—and your intranet. To prove its value, you may already be tracking some useful metrics (site traffic, number of files uploaded, adoption rates). But can you prove its value in dollars? Site analytics are useful, but they only tell part of the story. This is where a set of value metrics comes in handy. What about doing a cost savings analysis comparing email to the intranet? Knowing which questions to ask your Accounting team (and other key stakeholders, such as IT) can yield surprisingly simple answers and provide new metrics to gage and quantify the value of your efforts to your organization.

Our goal is to define a set of tools and formulas to help you appraise the value of your intranet—and help you to advocate for resources accordingly. In this session, you’ll learn how to:

• Strategize a set of simple metrics, using both site analytics and auditing tactics
  
• Utilize a cost of labor metric
  
• Assess cost savings associated with different technologies (email vs. intranet)
  
• Assign value to your business processes (manual vs. automated, for example)
  
• Use surveys to support value assumptions
  
• Use metrics to support budget requests

Gail Berrigan, Director, Organizational Communications, Human Capital & Development
The Humane Society of the United States

11:00 a.m.

Idea Exchange: Questions, Feedback, Collaboration

11:10 a.m.

Morning Refreshment & Networking Break

11:15 a.m.

How To Identify The Key Pillars Of Successful Information Architecture To Develop A Collaborative And Innovative Intranet

*** SCREENSHOTS/LIVE DEMO! ***

Join XL Group plc and Tallan as we discuss the key drivers to a highly productive intranet with the best practices in Find-ability and Collaboration.

For years, XL had an intranet where employees still could not find what they were looking for.  They needed an intranet focused on simplicity, clarity and efficiency.  Their new intuitive intranet, XL World, provides the power tools they need to get relevant information more quickly while also streamlining new business strategies.

In this session you will learn how XL used SharePoint and enterprise search to drive productivity, user adoption, and solve some key stakeholder pain points such as how to”

• Find people based on their expertise
• Access relevant information quickly and easily
• Collaborate with people across geographic boundaries on multiple devices
• Search large amounts of content through intuitive organization
• Implement all of this in an unobtrusive, simple yet effective user interface

Reddy Kadasani, SharePoint Practice Director
Tallan, Inc.

Rich Williams, Vice President Web and Portal Services
XL Group plc

11:45 a.m.

Crawl, Walk, Run: SharePoint Can Do SO Much It Is Hard To Know Where To Start?

You will wrap up your SharePoint conference experience by building your own roadmap based on your business and technical requirements. Furthermore, you will leave with ideas to help you get started and move forward to make your plan actionable.

Moderator:
Shannon Ryan, President & CEO
Non-Linear Creations

Panelists To Be Announced Shortly

12:25 p.m.
Chairperson's Recap: Key Takeaways And What To Do When You Get Back To The Office

We’ll recap the highlights of the past two days and ask you to share key insights and next steps with the group.

Jeff Willinger, Director of Social Computing, Collaboration & Intranets Rightpoint
Conference Chairperson