Case Study: NewSchools Venture Fund achieves faster collaboration and centralized knowledge sharing with Point B and Office 365

Unlocking the Collaborative Power of Office 365

NewSchools Venture Fund, a nonprofit venture philanthropy firm, faced a challenge in optimizing collaboration and knowledge sharing across its four investment teams. To solve this, they partnered with vendor Point B to implement a new system, ultimately selecting and deploying Microsoft Office 365 tools including SharePoint and OneDrive to replace their outdated content management system.

Point B took a business-needs-first approach, designing optimized processes before mapping them to the specific Office 365 tools. They built a SharePoint prototype, managed a successful pilot program, and implemented a holistic change management strategy that led to high user adoption. The results included significantly improved communication and reporting across the organization, allowing NewSchools to move much faster in fulfilling its mission.

NewSchools Venture Fund

Jessica Henry

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