<p>The mission critical nature of technology in the enterprise has elevated the status of the IT department, which is gaining influence in shaping enterprise business strategy and company culture. However, the inverse is also true.</p><p>Due to the inter-connectedness between business strategy and IT strategy, decisions made at the business model or company culture-level are increasingly impacting IT's effectiveness. As a result, dysfunction at the business model level significantly impacts enterprise-wide technology implementations, including SharePoint deployments. However, the dysfunction will typically surface as a technical problem rather than a business or cultural problem, making the source of the problem difficult to identify and correct.</p><p>Dysfunction in your company's business model or culture will negatively impact an enterprise software deployment; however, the dysfunction will often be viewed as a technical problem first. The success or failure of your SharePoint deployment depends upon your ability to build a healthy business model and culture.</p><p>Diagnosing dysfunction in your business model or culture requires that you have a working model with which to measure health versus dysfunction. If the core elements of a business model are missing or poorly implemented in your company, your entire organization, including its enterprise software deployments, will suffer.</p><p><a href="http://www.cmswire.com/cms/social-business/how-business-models-and-culture-intersect-sharepoint-deployments-and-why-it-matters-018897.php">Keep reading...</a></p>