Collaboration Solutions
OnePoint – Combining OneNote and SharePoint to revelutionise team collaboration
OnePoint is the combined use of OneNote and SharePoint to create a team collaboration/knowledge management environment presented as shared project e-notebooks. This implementation pattern provides an intuitive user-friendly interface onto a SharePoint document library with automatically managed online/offline working. This solution enables project teams to move seamlessly into working in a collaborative fashion resulting in increased engagement and cohesion. This solution not only revolutionises team collaboration at, but also leads to reduction in email traffic, elimination of information silos and provides a team knowledge management solution.
OnePoint was conceived and developed at Pfizer where it was deployed widely used across the organisation. The solution delivered considerable value to the business and this was recocognised via a series of external awards:
- Royal Society of Chemistry Teamwork in Innovation 2010 Winners
- Winners of the Microsoft Life Sciences Innovation Awards 2010
- KMUK 2010 Best KM initiative or implementation in a corporate enterprise
In addition a number of publications describing the utilisation of OnePoint are available:
OnePoint – combining OneNote and SharePoint to facilitate knowledge transfer Chris G. Barber, Nuzrul Haque & Ben Gardner Drug Discovery Today 14, 845-850
The identification and development of novel drugs requires a multidisciplinary team of individuals whose membership changes during the lifecycle of a project. Incomplete knowledge transfer across this team can be a barrier to effective decision-making and efficient drug discovery. We have deployed a new infrastructure supporting information storage and distribution within small teams using Microsoft’s SharePoint™ server technology in conjunction with the desktop application OneNote™. This delivers a user-friendly collaborative workspace that is fast, flexible and carries a low training burden. Demand from drug project teams for this ‘solution’ has now resulted in site-wide deployment to over 500 people across research.
Pfizer Boosts Efficiency by 15 Percent with Easy to Use, Shared Note-Taking Program
For the past 150 years, Pfizer has pioneered the development of some of the industry’s most innovative pharmaceutical products. In 2007, Pfizer applied this “out of the box” thinking to a pilot program designed to enhance efficiency and knowledge management across project teams, and potentially speed time-to-market for new products. The pilot brought together the simple, intuitive user interface of the Microsoft® Office OneNote® 2007 note-taking program with the robust document management technology of Microsoft Office SharePoint® Server 2007. As a result, pilot participants reported a significant decrease in the number of e-mail messages they send each day, and one group reported a 15 percent increase in efficiency. Overall, the 600 participants reported a 2 percent time savings per week, which represents a cost savings of approximately U.S.$2.25 million.
Just the tonic – Team collaboration at Pfizer
Ben Gardner, Nuzrul Haque and Chris Barber explain how OnePoint software revolutionised team collaboration within global research and development at pharmaceutical giant Pfizer.
