Information Workers

According to a recent study by Forrester Research the amount of information that the average corporate associate creates and consumes nearly doubles every year.  This can make the job of reading, managing, responding and reporting on this information a daunting task.  Although there are many new tools to help information workers, few keep ahead of the growing wave of data, reports and emails that are their daily world.  Organizations struggle with how to best address this issue and often turn to tools such as Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) to help tame this beast.

Although MOSS is a very powerful tool many IT organizations have deployed it using traditional “build it and they will come” methods.  And much to their chagrin they did; creating hundreds if not thousands of sites to store documents and information. Information workers now had a tool but spent most of their time trying to determine where the information should be stored and once stored how to find it again.  They wound up with just another information spaghetti pile that may have been worse than being pinned under the mound of information they had before.

We at Mixon Consulting have been empowering IT organization and information workers with the training, planning and tools to help address this problem at its core – the design of information.  Everyone has seen and appreciated good design, whether in a car, toaster or custom Harley.  They are beautiful and they work flawlessly.  This is true for information as well.  In order for it to work for us and not against us it must be designed and architected for utility.  This is a new concept for many employees and IT associates and is not a technical problem – it’s a people problem because we are the ones that are creating all this information.

Our training is based on years of working with organization such as yours to help awaken this capability within the creators and consumers of information and to do it in a way that is aligned and sympathetic to your culture and business needs.  We help employees to evolve into information workers and geeks to grow into information masters.  Our classes take you on a journey behind the scenes to uncover and harness the hidden power of data, process and people orchestrated in harmony.  Today is the perfect time to begin to transform your job and relationship with the information in your world and we are here to help and support you even after you leave our classrooms.  We know that it’s not easy being on the cutting edge and we allow you access to forums, discussion, premium content and white papers.  Together with other like-minded travelers you will know that you have the knowledge and support to succeed in this transition.

We have classes in a city near you so if you are ready to enter a world that has always been there but seldom exposed, sign up for one of our classes and learn how Mastering SharePoint will impact your life, role and contribution.  We’ll see you soon.

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