Teams Governance — Why Most Enterprises Get It Wrong
In most organisations I know, the deployment timeline went something like this: March 2020, global pandemic, remote work mandate, Teams switched on, everyone told to use it, governance deferred because there was no time. Five years later, the governance that was deferred in 2020 has still not been implemented in most of those environments. The result is predictable and consistent across industries: Teams sprawl at industrial scale.
- ▪In most organisations I know, the deployment timeline went something like this: March 2020, global pandemic, remote work mandate, Teams switched on, everyone told to use it, governance deferred because there was no time.
- ▪Five years later, the governance that was deferred in 2020 has still not been implemented in most of those environments.
- ▪The result is predictable and consistent across industries: Teams sprawl at industrial scale.
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