Sharepoint Workflows for Today's Knowledge Worker: Build Workflows TODAY that WORK - NO code, NO consultants, NO third party software required!

A unique approach to quickly building custom Sharepoint Workflows. Build Workflows TODAY that WORK - NO code, NO consultants, NO third party software required!

A 'how-to' guide - packed with screen shots and step by step directions that provide knowledge workers the skills to build their own applications for a variety of business scenarios!

Target Audience:
This book is intended for Knowledge Workers that need the skills necessary to build simple or complex business process workflows. This book provides “Sections” that are incrementally useful for point solutions and when combined, provide the Knowledge Worker the ability to create solutions for complex and dynamic business scenarios.

While useful for the technical expert, as a foundation for Sharepoint development, this book is not intended to be an in depth technical training tool. Readers will not find a single line of code in this book – Knowledge Workers should not be expected to write code and this book in no way is directly intended for the techie audience. This book may be useful for techies but is intended for the Knowledge Worker that does not want to rely upon others to manage operational processes.

The value of Sharepoint is that it provides the leader or manager of the process the ability to implement business process workflows with no need for a complex technical background. The Knowledge Worker only needs a creative mindset to implement a solid business process combined with baseline understanding of Sharepoint concepts described in this book.

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The Challenge

Today’s Knowledge Worker is faced with the need to manage efficient business processes that involve inputs from a variety of groups within the organization. The need to understand how to get things done within an organization, and specifically who is responsible for the most recent, current, and next step in a business process cannot be understated.

Inefficiencies due to unclear business processes result in increased costs to organizations whether caused by an overall lack of visibility as to the status of a step in a process or by the need for Knowledge Workers to continually chase each other for updates. Regardless of the cause, myriad business tools exist to help Knowledge Workers drive business processes – leveraging these tools to implement efficient processes yields both a challenge and an opportunity:

- The challenge is that Knowledge Workers are not typically able to leverage the business tools to implement efficient processes because they are required to engage the assistance of technical resources that are often expensive or do not exist at all, within the organization.


- The opportunity is that many Knowledge Workers today already have access to Sharepoint – they may just not have had the opportunity to receive the basic training necessary to fully leverage the capability of this tool.

Microsoft’s Sharepoint platform is embedded within many organizations and is often greatly under-utilized – primarily due to the fact that while the tool exists and was created for the Knowledge Worker, organizations do not typically have the funding necessary to host dedicated technical resources that are focused on building automated business processes customized around the organization’s needs.

This book will provide the Knowledge Worker with the skills necessary to build customized Sharepoint platforms and business process workflows that are efficient and produce immediate Returns on Investment.

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Following is a summary of other business process workflows that can be easily created with the techniques described in this book.

Scenario 1: Any approval process

Scenario 2: Data Gathering with item level permissions

Scenario 3: Status Dashboard or for Data Tracking

Scenario 4: Robo-mailer with customized information

Scenario 5: Use a Sharepoint List to capture performance review information and manage the review process