Gray Leaf Technology Blog

The coronavirus has us all living life a little differently now. It has changed how we travel and shop. How we communicate and spend time with others. It has also changed how organizations are conducting business. They have had to adapt to shutdowns and stay-at-home orders. With the many kinds of businesses out there, they certainly are finding different ways to adapt to continue operations. Primarily working remotely.

CEO John Laub chats with Stuart Crawford of Ulistic, a Managed Service Provider (MSPs) marketing company on how Gray Leaf partners with MSPs to help them generate revenue and provide enterprise services to their clients. 

Imagine for a moment that your startup has grown large enough to move into an office. You’ve closed many more clients than you had projected, and your billables have increased 2200%. You just landed a prime piece of real-estate on the corner of a main intersection a few months ago. The perfect opportunity for more people to notice you. You’re making moves and business is great. However, after a wonderful weekend riding on cloud nine from a business high, you didn’t expect to pull into your parking lot on Monday morning seeing a semi parked next to your custom made fish tank – in your office. Before parking in your office, the truck decided to take out a few power line poles that services your office. You have no power, no office, and all your equipment now has tread marks on them.  

We work with a lot of SharePoint clients, so we’ve seen sites that were well-governed and others that look like the wild west. SharePoint is a platform that can do a lot of different “stuff,” but a well-thought-out governance plan is undeniably important. But SharePoint governance has become more of a buzz phrase, and it’s bigger than it needs to be. (If you’ve been assigned a SharePoint governance policy, then you might feel a little like Frodo carrying the burden of the Ring.)