Solventum Design | SharePoint Community Site
Background
About the product
As a result of the spin off of 3M HealthCare into Solventum, the design community that moved with the new company no longer had a top down design organization with the executive level designers remaining with 3M. This impacted the Design community as a whole wherein a need arose for community connection, access to resources, and continue discipline excellence being driven forward. The team also needed to stay connected to access legacy and future documentation to facilitate design excellence as well as inspire business-level execution.
My role
Information architecture and strategy | Responsible for curating Share Point site information organization and gathering resource information for on-site curation.
User experience design | Responsible for researching feedback and needs of design team members across the organization to optimize Share Point site solution and add features where necessary.
Discipline leadership | Responsible for the visual design discipline connection point before UX and UI discipline consolidation; responsible for design for accessibility discipline connection point before it being shifted into the User Experience discipline connection point.
Addressing design community needs
Challenge
Maintaining community connection became difficult as executive-facilitated asynchronous touchpoints diminished, leaving fewer informal channels for cross-team connection and knowledge sharing.
Approach
I activated SharePoint and Viva Engage as shared spaces for asynchronous connection by launching a social Viva Engage page within a new SharePoint site. In parallel, teams were encouraged to create informal “moments that matter” to sustain connection, collaboration, and design knowledge sharing.
Challenge
Access to critical resources became fragmented as files were moved, deprecated, or re-created across teams, reducing visibility and consistency. As new and recovered materials surfaced in parallel, designers struggled to locate files, access employee and IT resources, onboard new designers, and maintain a reliable source of truth.
Approach
I established a SharePoint site from the ground up to serve as a centralized access layer, organizing and connecting files across Teams to improve discoverability and maintenance. In parallel, I partnered with design leaders recovering and migrating content during the spinoff, ensuring the system evolved alongside ongoing consolidation.
Challenge
Sustaining connection across discipline teams and sharing resources became increasingly difficult as visibility declined and fractures formed between business group design teams. This reduced the ability to communicate design’s value and onboard new discipline members effectively.
Approach
I centralized discipline team outputs within the design SharePoint site, organizing share-out materials into clear, discipline-based folders for easy discovery. In parallel, discipline sessions were recorded and curated into structured Microsoft Stream playlists, making knowledge accessible to both new and existing team members, including those who prefer video-based learning.
Outcomes
Outcome and Impact
The work resulted in a centralized SharePoint site supporting both existing designers and dedicated onboarding hubs for new hires, complemented by a Viva Engage community that enabled asynchronous connection and knowledge sharing across the design organization. This effort aligned with parallel resource identification and migration led by design managers during the transition. Once assets from Miro, Figma, and SharePoint were consolidated, I organized and connected them within the site to ensure clear navigation and findability.
Overall, the resources have proven valuable for onboarding new designers and have been recognized by cross-functional teams, including .com partners, as a reliable single source of design-related materials.
Design leadership team collaborators: Design community leaders across businesses who provided feedback, submitted requests, or tested and engage in solutions. Adam Dunford | Design community expert and Medical Surgical design team manager; Christopher Stephan | Health Information Systems design team manager and business group liaison; Ryan Payne and David Roedl | Dental Solutions design team manager and business group liaison; Stephen Lu | Purification and Filtration Sciences design business group liaison; Lily Lin | Corporate Design and .com design team liaison and business group liaison.
NEON Employee Interest Group | SharePoint Leadership & Member Sites
Background
About the product
Solventum’s New Employee Opportunity Network (NEON) connects, supports, and develops employees with fewer than five years of tenure through targeted events and programming. I co-led the Marketing and Communications committee during NEON’s formation, supporting the group’s early structure and visibility. A core component of NEON was the creation of centralized resource sites that enabled leaders to manage programming effectively while giving members a clear, easy-to-navigate entry point to NEON resources.
My role
Information architecture and strategy | Responsible for curating Share Point site information organization and gathering resource information for on-site curation.
User experience design | Responsible for researching feedback and needs of NEON committee leaders to optimize Share Point site solution and add features where necessary.
Committee co-leadership | Responsible for leading marketing and communications committee for the NEON employee interest group with Alexandra Becker; responsible for Share Point site creation and curation.
Addressing new employee community needs
Challenge
NEON did not have the operational structure or internal tools needed to support co-leads and committee owners in running the organization effectively and at scale.
Approach
I established a dedicated SharePoint workspace to serve as NEON’s operational backbone, supporting leadership workflows, documentation, and program management. In close partnership with the Marketing and Communications co-lead, we curated committee guides and event-planning resources and centralized them on the site to enable consistent execution and sustainable growth.
Challenge
Following the company spinoff, the New Employee Opportunity Network (NEON) was re-established without a centralized way for members and new employees to access information about the group’s programming.
Approach
We built a dedicated SharePoint site from the ground up to serve as the central hub for all past and future NEON events, programming, and resources. As Marketing and Communications began to collaborate with the NEON leadership team to curate content for members, initial placeholders were hosted on the Share Point site to demonstrate tot he team the capabilities of the resource to aid in brainstorming how we seek to scale the site as the group expands.
Outcomes
Outcome and Impact
The SharePoint site enabled NEON to relaunch with a scalable, sustainable structure, equipping co-leaders with the resources needed to run committees effectively. In parallel, a member-facing SharePoint site was established as an initial platform for the broader NEON community, providing a foundation the team could expand as additional resources and solutions became available. Together, these efforts improved visibility, reduced administrative friction, and supported NEON’s growth as an active employee interest group across the organization.
NEON leadership team collaborators: Alexandra Becker | Marketing and Communications co-lead and graphic design support; Zane Johnson, Grace Sibley, & Josh Spitzner-Resneick | NEON leadership chairs & feedback providers.