
<p>Frequently evaluating your company's collaboration maturity is a great way to determine where knowledge gaps exist, what facets require additional education and how to assist people to expand their use of SharePoint. Departments will not mature at the same rate of speed, so it's beneficial to build a model of maturity for your organisation so that you can plan the steps to take to move each department or group to the next level of collaboration maturity.</p><p>You may choose to modify my simple maturity model below or build one of your own. The goal will be to make certain that you include some 'stretch goals' within each level of your maturity model to help people move to greater use of the platform.</p><p>In this model, Level One maturity is the most basic level of SharePoint use while Level Five maturity represents a department or group that is especially well skilled in the use of SharePoint to solve their business challenges.</p><p>Level One Document Storage</p><p><a href="http://idm.net.au/article/009509-rate-your-organisations-sharepoint-collaboration-maturity">Keep reading...</a></p>