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When, if ever, should we use the S word?
In many organisations “SharePoint” is a loaded word. It could mean a document library, often poorly managed, which people are required to use. It could be painfully out-of-date team sites, or multipl...
You could try branding it (the intranet/digital workplace and the associated experience) as its own thing with its own name, but that also carries some risks. We did this with an on-prem SP2007 based system we branded "ThePoint", which allowed us to talk about it and train on it from an interesting perspective. Unfortunately, we over promised and under delivered on it and it ultimately failed. Our current iteration in SharePoint online (and associated M365 tools) is simply called "the intranet" and this is going better, but we have some work left to do. No matter what you call it, though, the bottom line is it has to have some value - even if it is just one or two well managed libraries and a semi-regular news feed. If it has value now, it can grow. Talb about "SharePoint" and what it can do to your content owners and tech support staff, but let the masses enjoy the generic intranet and gain as much value from it as possible.