This is the fourth in a series of interviews with Océ, about their Enterprise 2.0 implementation and adoption experiences. I am cross-posting them on this blog as I think they represent a sound approach. Océ is a leading international provider of digital document management technology and services. Earlier, I wrote out their micro-messaging, wiki experiences, and enterprise information architecture. Prior interviews have been with Samuel Driessen, Information Architect at Océ. For this post I spoke about their SharePoint efforts with Jan van Veen, Manager Internal Communications, in Corporate Communications and Tom Dombret, the technical team lead on the SharePoint effort.
The effort began as an IT initiative when the new CIO determined that SharePoint should be the enterprise standard for collaboration in order to provide a common and more robust platform. However, it was recognized that the SharePoint implementation needed to be a combined IT and business effort to be successful. Jan mentioned that with SharePoint they were able to fill the gap between pub