The Four Phases:
Phase One: Commit.
Key Activities:
- Identify clear business objectives and priorities
- Develop business case and funding strategy
- Secure leadership champions across the business and IT
Phase Two: Enable. Adoption begins with Google Apps platform enablement and acceptance across the organization. Typically, this includes Gmail (including Postini), Calendar, Talk and Chromebooks. This phase requires a disciplined transformational approach to enable a common enterprise Google Apps platform while also accommodating inevitable disparate needs across an organization.
Key Activities:
- Structured Google Apps requirements and design effort
- Proactive transformational planning and leadership
- Aggressive change management approach
Phase Three: Collaborate. Once the Google Apps platform is deployed, the opportunity for rapid advances in enterprise and departmental communications and collaboration are abundant. The organization has undergone a significant transformation and must quickly feel the promised benefits beyond core enablement. A structured and active roadmap for embracing the extended Google Apps platform capabilities (Sites, Video and Docs) needs to be undertaken which includes.
Key Activities:
- Drive education and advocacy campaigns across the users
- Invest in targeted, smaller solutions to address today’s pains
- Evangelize success while responding quickly to challenges
Phase Four: Solution. Expand the Google Apps platform efforts to large value-laden business challenges where the managed 100% web solutions can be fully embraced. Extend the Google Apps platform to integrate with other critical business systems to facilitate seamless data access and collaborative interaction across core business process. Leverage Google App Engine to build peripheral custom built applications to address unique or supporting automation to core systems.
Key Activities:
- Identify business process performance opportunities
- Integrate Google Apps platform with core business systems
- Supplement core systems leveraging the Google App Engine