This document provides strategies for driving user adoption of collaboration tools. It identifies that many IT projects fail due to lack of user adoption and features/technology. Collaboration tools carry high risk without user adoption. To improve adoption, the document recommends addressing cultural challenges and following five strategies: 1) Make users feel like they belong, 2) Build an information architecture that is familiar and usable, 3) Make the tools simple to use, 4) Convey meaning through design, and 5) Regularly update the tools and information architecture over time.
22. makes users feel
comfortable
!
familiarity reduces
sense of change
23. 3. MAKE IT SIMPLE
• “like surfing the web”
• familiar menus
• layouts for consistency
• site-map footers
• navigation aids
24.
25. MAKE IT SIMPLE (CONTINUED)
• group spaces into sub-sites
• own menus, layouts, footers, etc.
• incrementally reveal complexity
• make it obvious where to put
stuff
26. 4. CONVEY MEANING
THROUGH DESIGN
• reduce apparent complexity
• visually prioritize information
• design templates for consistency
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28. 5. GARDEN IT
• your organization changes
• tools evolve
• new opportunities
• new pain points
29. GARDEN IT (CONTINUED)
• plan for regular updates
• tools
• information architecture
• design