Presentation Details

What is the best way to share knowledge in today’s “speed of ideas” based economy? Strong knowledge creation and collaboration processes are key to achieving a high performing organization. Historically done face to face, many still think that the creation of shared knowledge is only truly feasible within the same workgroup. Today organizational innovation involves a range of different stakeholder groups, spanning many different functional areas within and outside of organizations, and across global boundaries. So what is the best way to share knowledge in today’s “speed of ideas” based economy? The only answer is to leverage technology to provide optimal solutions and Microsoft Office SHAREPOINT Server 2007 (MOSS) is part of that answer.

MOSS 2007 is an integrated suite of easy-to-use server applications that provides a single platform to manage intranet, extranet and website applications across the enterprise. MOSS 2007 improves organizational effectiveness by offering one unified suite of enterprise-scale applications that satisfies diverse business-critical needs such as managing content, business processes, and business intelligence, enabling better informed decision making, and simplifying how people collaborate.

This presentation will not only introduce MOSS and its many business and technological capabilities, but tell you who is using it, how are they using it and why are they using it. Specifically, the presentation will address the overall capabilities of MOSS 2007 to familiarize the audience with the product and outline how to use it to include how to:

• Manage content effectively to maximize information assets.
• Accelerate internal and external shared business processes.
• Efficiently find and access information to drive better-informed decisions through rich business intelligence features.
• Share business information more effectively.
• Provide IT with a single, integrated, extensible platform to manage internet, extranet, and website applications across the organization.
• Connect people with information and expertise through rapid search and alerts

Chris McGrath is currently a manager with H2 Performance Consulting Corporation in Pensacola, FL., and has 30 years experience in the leadership and management field in both public and private organizations. He has managed nearly every major business functional area including leading numerous IT development projects involving paperless processing systems, EDI, QA, MRP, small networks, and database solutions.

A retired Navy Commander, Chris served 21 years as a Supply Corps Officer, and is a graduate with distinction from the Naval War College. After retirement, he pursued a second career in the private sector landing his first position with Cambridge Biotech, a small biopharmaceutical firm in Rockville, MD., in charge of both Manufacturing and IT operations. He was temporarily promoted as acting plant manager in his 4th year with the company as it went through the corporate sale process, guiding it successfully through due diligence and closing. He then joined Raytheon Corporation as a Senior Supply Chain Manager with the Raytheon Information Services Division in Virginia.  Leaving Raytheon after 3 years, he returned to Pensacola to pursue a second graduate degree.

He earned his BA in Psychology from Cornell University in 1976, started on his MBA in 1977 at the University of West Florida, finally finishing the program as a MS in Management from the Naval Postgraduate School in 1985. He returned to school in 1992 for Post Master’s certificate work in Production Operations Control from Drexel University. In 2007, he earned a second Master’s in Industrial & Organizational Psychology from the University of West Florida.

Chris is now pursuing his desire to share his knowledge, skills, and experience by consulting with organizations to help them achieve high performance status.  Committed to high standards of excellence in operations management and leadership, he is trained as an ISO auditor, is a trained and experienced Baldrige examiner, and a 6 Sigma Quality Specialist. He also holds MCP certifications in Microsoft Server 2003 and SharePoint 2007, as well as COMPTIA Security plus.

Meeting Details

This meeting will be held at the PJC Downtown Center http://www.pjc.edu/includes/maps/PJCMapDTC-s.pdf. The meeting starts at 11:30am and ends at 1:00pm.   The cost for lunch is $12 per person.  Cold lunches will be provided by Aegean Breeze.

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