Presented at Microsoft 365 Collaboration Conference in Las Vegas, NV, December 2021. Reviews steps to build organic adoption of Microsoft Teams and review of architecture and business outcome goals
It's Alive! Bring your Intranet to Life with PowerApps and FlowD'arce Hess
Presented at Office365 Connect Conference in Haarlem, NED 2018. How to use use Flow and PowerApps to control workflows and custom forms in SharePoint and Office365
Design your Modern Intranet using SharePoint PnP Design Assets D'arce Hess
Presentation given at SharePoint Saturday Ottawa. Presentation go over basic design concepts and how to apply them to new designs and concepts in SharePoint
Enabling and empowering remote employees #HOU365Kanwal Khipple
From the beginning, we have always been a remote first company. Consulting with customers remotely can be a challenge and was an important skill that we have been teaching to our teams. Though building trust with your team was harder than originally thought. We experimented and tried out a number of ways to be inclusive for our diverse team.
Attend this session to learn about
Enabling every employee to have an impact
Supporting and encouraging work/life balance
Encouraging innovation through experimentation
New technologies are changing the way people work with each other, their organization’s partners, and their customers. Employee expectations have grown and are being met by innovation that delivers greater accessibility, lower costs, and faster results. The catch? Organizations and employees need to understand, adopt, and use these technologies or risk being outpaced by new competitors or changes in the marketplace.
Join Richard Harbridge in an insightful discussion as he explores why collaboration can be challenging in organizations today, what we can do about it together.
Intranets in the Cloud: What You Need to Know at Unity Connect Online #UCO16 Kanwal Khipple
There is a growing trend of organizations moving to Office 365 to meet their Intranet and portal needs. While many organizations are running their SharePoint portals or Intranets on-premise, in a private cloud, or on public cloud offerings like Azure – many have already started or made the move to Office 365 powered Intranet experiences.
The question for many companies is “should our Intranet be built with Office 365?” and if so, “how should we best take advantage of Office 365 features with our Intranet?”
We’ll give you guidance and recommendations to successfully plan and implement an Office 365 Intranet as well as:
The benefits of Office 365 for Intranets
Why you should consider migrating your Intranet to Office 365
When and how you may integrate Office 365 with your existing Intranet today
Lessons learned and challenges with Office 365 Intranets
With the rate of innovation coming from Microsoft these days, many organizations are struggling to understand which tools and capabilities to use, and when to use them. The fact is: different teams work in different ways. Within the modern digital workplace, there are many different “modalities” of collaboration — and the companies that understand and meet the evolving needs of their end users will have a competitive advantage.
This presentation reprises a keynote presentation given at the European SharePoint Conference (Nov 2016) in Vienna, Austria by Office Server and Services MVPs Christian Buckley from Beezy and Benjamin Niaulin from Sharegate as they discuss real-world scenarios and management considerations of the three primary collaboration modalities: document and process-centric (SharePoint), email-centric (Exchange and Groups), and social-centric (Yammer, Skype for Business) -- and how Beezy can meet the various needs of these modalities.
It's Alive! Bring your Intranet to Life with PowerApps and FlowD'arce Hess
Presented at Office365 Connect Conference in Haarlem, NED 2018. How to use use Flow and PowerApps to control workflows and custom forms in SharePoint and Office365
Design your Modern Intranet using SharePoint PnP Design Assets D'arce Hess
Presentation given at SharePoint Saturday Ottawa. Presentation go over basic design concepts and how to apply them to new designs and concepts in SharePoint
Enabling and empowering remote employees #HOU365Kanwal Khipple
From the beginning, we have always been a remote first company. Consulting with customers remotely can be a challenge and was an important skill that we have been teaching to our teams. Though building trust with your team was harder than originally thought. We experimented and tried out a number of ways to be inclusive for our diverse team.
Attend this session to learn about
Enabling every employee to have an impact
Supporting and encouraging work/life balance
Encouraging innovation through experimentation
New technologies are changing the way people work with each other, their organization’s partners, and their customers. Employee expectations have grown and are being met by innovation that delivers greater accessibility, lower costs, and faster results. The catch? Organizations and employees need to understand, adopt, and use these technologies or risk being outpaced by new competitors or changes in the marketplace.
Join Richard Harbridge in an insightful discussion as he explores why collaboration can be challenging in organizations today, what we can do about it together.
Intranets in the Cloud: What You Need to Know at Unity Connect Online #UCO16 Kanwal Khipple
There is a growing trend of organizations moving to Office 365 to meet their Intranet and portal needs. While many organizations are running their SharePoint portals or Intranets on-premise, in a private cloud, or on public cloud offerings like Azure – many have already started or made the move to Office 365 powered Intranet experiences.
The question for many companies is “should our Intranet be built with Office 365?” and if so, “how should we best take advantage of Office 365 features with our Intranet?”
We’ll give you guidance and recommendations to successfully plan and implement an Office 365 Intranet as well as:
The benefits of Office 365 for Intranets
Why you should consider migrating your Intranet to Office 365
When and how you may integrate Office 365 with your existing Intranet today
Lessons learned and challenges with Office 365 Intranets
With the rate of innovation coming from Microsoft these days, many organizations are struggling to understand which tools and capabilities to use, and when to use them. The fact is: different teams work in different ways. Within the modern digital workplace, there are many different “modalities” of collaboration — and the companies that understand and meet the evolving needs of their end users will have a competitive advantage.
This presentation reprises a keynote presentation given at the European SharePoint Conference (Nov 2016) in Vienna, Austria by Office Server and Services MVPs Christian Buckley from Beezy and Benjamin Niaulin from Sharegate as they discuss real-world scenarios and management considerations of the three primary collaboration modalities: document and process-centric (SharePoint), email-centric (Exchange and Groups), and social-centric (Yammer, Skype for Business) -- and how Beezy can meet the various needs of these modalities.
Proactive governance & adoption in Microsoft 365 are essential to success. But, where should you start? Join us to find out everything you need to know.
Proactive governance of Microsoft 365 is critical as organizations continue to depend more and more on the competitive advantage and productivity it can provide. After all, Microsoft 365’s value and impact are heavily dependent on whether it is leveraged, but also how efficiently it is leveraged – and that comes down to governance.
Grab a mug and join Michal Pisarek, Orchestry CEO & Microsoft MVP, and Richard Harbridge, 2toLead CTO & Microsoft MVP to discover everything you need to know about proactive governance & adoption within Microsoft 365.
Tidying up with Marie Kondo is a phenomenon that has taken the world by storm. Marie Kondo has developed a simple method to help declutter and organise your home. Inspired by this KonMari Method of tidying up, we will explore how to apply similar steps in experience design.
Design systems are the key to keeping digital properties organised so that changes and updates can be made seamlessly. When a design system is set up properly, creating new features and templates can happen fairly quickly. This allows us, as designers, to focus on solving user needs and creating an overall better user experience instead of spending our time on mundane tasks of re-creating patterns and modules.
Future of Designing Collaboration Experiences in Office 365 #sptechconKanwal Khipple
Imagine a future where silo'd departments and legacy processes don’t stand in our way. Today’s collaboration needs go from complex collaboration portals to simple innovation hubs and most importantly need to work for our devices. Designing portals to enable a new kind of collaboration and communication is an absolute necessity today.For the past couple years, I’ve had the opportunity to study how successful teams collaborate and have helped to transform the way teams work and collaborate together. In this session, I'll share what I’ve learned about making effective cross-discipline collaboration possible, and leave you with actionable approaches you can use to unite your team's communication and collaboration needs.
Proven Recipes for Designing Highly Adoptive Portals #collab365Kanwal Khipple
No one starts a project with the intent of building an ugly intranet. We always have good intentions to build the best communication and collaboration portal the company has ever seen. We ensure that executives and end users are involved to design and implement from a portal based on their experience. What ends up happening? Portals are built with too many links to content or even stale content, images that take too long to load or are generic. You even had good intentions to leverage many features and perhaps some are even using it. What you typically find is that after the initial buzz of the launch, adoption fails. Why is that? If that sounds like what you recently went through, then attend this session to learn the strategies and implement them tomorrow. Learn the key principles in building innovative solutions that are simple but capture user’s attention and increase adoption.
Lessons Learned from Designing Award Winning PortalsKanwal Khipple
No one has been using your employee portal and now you've been tasked with rebuilding it for success. Looking at this project you realize that you don't have sufficient time, budget or resources to deliver the portal successful. Are you wondering what you can do to convince more executives for more budget? Or perhaps, you'd like to be creative with what you have and still exceed expectations? If you've answered yes to both questions, this session is for you.
In this session, we'll go together on this journey on delivering a successful project. I'll be sharing some of my best practices from the field.
Features Covered
We'll be going through the following:
1. how to effectively build a business case on getting more budget, time and resources
2. how to effectively trace requirements from discovery, documenting functionality, development to QA / UAT
Session Objectives
In this session, you will learn...
1. Change Management Best Practices
2. Social Collaboration
3. Training and Adoption Strategies
4. Requirement Gathering
Every year we independently evaluate the marketplace for SharePoint intranet in-a-box products. In this webinar, we take an industry focus to consider the trends and prospects for products and vendors.
We'll begin with the state of the art identified in our 2019 SharePoint Intranets report, and compare Microsoft's roadmap with how vendors have responded. We'll also look at trends outside the SharePoint space and ask what should be learned.
Join us for 30 minutes of analysis and discussion, covering:
• In-a-box product trends
• Vendor changes and acquisitions, such as Wizdom, LiveTiles and Bonzai
• The non-SharePoint intranet space
• Likely developments into 2020
• Q&A.
Although practitioners are very welcome to join, this webinar is primarily aimed at vendors, service providers, Microsoft partners and investors.
The Future of Designing Collaboration Experiences #spsdetroitKanwal Khipple
Imagine a future where silo'd departments and legacy processes don’t stand in our way. Today’s collaboration needs go from complex collaboration portals to simple innovation hubs and most importantly need to work for our devices. Designing portals to enable a new kind of collaboration and communication is an absolute necessity today.For the past couple years, I’ve had the opportunity to study how successful teams collaborate and have helped to transform the way teams work and collaborate together. In this session, I'll share what I’ve learned about making effective cross-discipline collaboration possible, and leave you with actionable approaches you can use to unite your team's communication and collaboration needs.IN THIS SESSION YOU’LL HEAR: • Why cross-discipline collaboration is essential to future-ready digital design, and how you can play a key role in creating the cross-departmental teams to enable innovation • Real-life industry examples of what it takes to make effective collaboration possible • Practical techniques you can use to bridge silos, increase productivity, and deliver better outcomes for your teams
Proactive Governance & Adoption For Microsoft 365: Canadian Cloud SummitRichard Harbridge
Proactive governance of Microsoft 365 is critical as organizations continue to depend more and more on the competitive advantage and productivity it can provide. Microsoft 365’s value and impact are dependent on whether it is leveraged (adopted) and how efficiently it is leveraged (governance). However Microsoft 365 can be daunting to tackle around governance and management. Where do you start? Is Microsoft Teams governance what should be prioritized first? What part of Teams governance? The Microsoft Teams lifecycle and the Microsoft Teams lifecycle management? What do the business stakeholders lead, and what does IT lead? How do we drive adoption pro-actively while improving coordination, management, and end-user experiences with effective governance?
Join Richard Harbridge, a Microsoft MVP and internationally recognized expert on Microsoft 365 and the Digital Workplace, as he shares proven approaches to getting started with and succeeding in establishing and improving Microsoft 365 Governance. In shifting from a reactive approach to Microsoft 365 governance to a pro-active one and from a reactive approach to adoption to a pro-active approach to adoption that drives better results, accomplishes more with less, and empowers the organization to maximize the value of their digital workplace.
Microsoft Teams & Yammer Enterprise Social: Better TogetherRichard Harbridge
Organizations today need to be more responsive as people are more connected than ever. While many organizations understand the benefits social technology can provide it’s often not as clear how we can go about implementing these technologies to complement our organization’s investments in collaborative technologies like Yammer, Microsoft Teams, and SharePoint.
Join Richard Harbridge as he shares practical, real-world guidance for enterprise social and the future of work. Richard explains how and where customers are investing in social, what is changing and important to understand, and what technology investments have been made and are being made by Microsoft to help customers connect and work in a cloud-first and mobile-first world.
What being a remote first company taught us #M365VMKanwal Khipple
From the beginning, we have always been a remote first company. Consulting with customers remotely can be a challenge and was an important skill that we have been teaching to our teams. Though building trust with your team was harder than originally thought. We experimented and tried out a number of ways to be inclusive for our diverse team.
Attend this session to learn about
- Enabling every employee to have an impact
- Supporting and encouraging work/life balance
- Encouraging innovation through experimentation
Moving from Collaboration Pilot to Successful ImplementationChristian Buckley
One of the most common SharePoint and Office 365 failures is deploying the platform without a pilot. The collaboration pilot is an essential step for any enterprise deployment – and there are most definitely “best practices” you should consider.
Presentation given by Beezy Chief Evangelist and 6-time Microsoft MVP Christian Buckley walking through a repeatable process for running successful collaboration pilots, from management buy-in through to customer adoption planning.
The State of Enterprise UX 2016: Panel Discussionuxpin
You'll learn:
- The most pressing challenges faced by enterprise product teams today.
- The emerging themes of enterprise design for 2017 and beyond.
- Effective solutions for overcoming the hurdles of enterprise UX.
Your users may struggle with these questions:
• Should I share a message via Skype for Business instead of Yammer, Office 365 Groups, or Exchange?
• Should I collaborate on data using an Excel sheet or a SharePoint list?
• Should I share a file in Outlook, in a meeting, from OneDrive for Business, on Yammer, in a Group, or in a SharePoint site?
What happens when your users can't decide what technology or feature to use? They use what they know, or what’s easy; even if better options exist. In this session, join Richard Harbridge as he helps you maximize the value of your Office 365 investment by providing the guidance you need to help your users make better, more effective decisions on how they get work done.
Tackling Office 365 & SharePoint Adoption Like A ServiceRichard Harbridge
Office 365 provides an incredible amount of value to individual employees, teams, departments, and organizations. Much of this value is not realized immediately upon purchase or deployment of Office 365. The value is realized as more and more users understand, adopt, and embrace the technology.
So how do we drive faster, sustainable and effective adoption? Perhaps more importantly, how do we ensure our adoption approach scales and can keep up with the innovation the Office 365 service provides?
Join Richard Harbridge as he shares real-world experience, advice, and activities that other customers are leveraging to get more from Office 365 and drive more meaningful adoption.
Making The Most of Meetings with Microsoft Teams, Yammer & Microsoft 365Richard Harbridge
Meetings are necessary in any modern organization today. Sometimes they are highly productive, valuable, focused, and have a strong impact over time. What is it that makes a meeting, especially a remote meeting more effective? How do you ensure your meetings are more successful, or how can you improve meeting outcomes in your daily work? When and how should we use Outlook, Microsoft Teams, Yammer, OneNote and other meeting related technology?
Join Richard Harbridge, a Microsoft MVP, CTO at 2toLead and internationally recognized expert on Microsoft 365 and the Digital Workplace, who will share best practices on:
• How organizations today are making the most of meetings
• Improving pre-meeting collaboration and planning
• How organizations are benefiting post meeting from improved technologies and skills
Let us help you take your meetings, especially remote ones, to the next level and deliver more value.
Top 10 Digital Workplace Patterns #SPSChiBurbsKanwal Khipple
Imagine a future where silo'd departments and legacy processes don’t stand in our way. Today’s collaboration needs go from complex collaboration portals to simple innovation hubs and most importantly need to work for our devices. Designing portals to enable a new kind of collaboration and communication is an absolute necessity today.
For the past couple years, I’ve had the opportunity to study how successful teams collaborate and have helped to transform the way teams work and collaborate together. In this session, I'll share what I’ve learned about making effective cross-discipline collaboration possible, and leave you with actionable approaches you can use to unite your team's communication and collaboration needs.
Microsoft Search is looking to bring the search experiences across all Microsoft 365 services together into a single unified experience. Attend this session to learn how the experience impacts your users, how you can configure it as well as scenarios where you should customize it.
Lean UX in the Enterprise: A Government Case Studyuxpin
You'll learn:
- How to quickly identify user groups despite vague assumptions.
- How to define clear features amidst complex requirements and business objectives.
- How to establish efficient UX processes across disjointed teams.
Proactive governance & adoption in Microsoft 365 are essential to success. But, where should you start? Join us to find out everything you need to know.
Proactive governance of Microsoft 365 is critical as organizations continue to depend more and more on the competitive advantage and productivity it can provide. After all, Microsoft 365’s value and impact are heavily dependent on whether it is leveraged, but also how efficiently it is leveraged – and that comes down to governance.
Grab a mug and join Michal Pisarek, Orchestry CEO & Microsoft MVP, and Richard Harbridge, 2toLead CTO & Microsoft MVP to discover everything you need to know about proactive governance & adoption within Microsoft 365.
Tidying up with Marie Kondo is a phenomenon that has taken the world by storm. Marie Kondo has developed a simple method to help declutter and organise your home. Inspired by this KonMari Method of tidying up, we will explore how to apply similar steps in experience design.
Design systems are the key to keeping digital properties organised so that changes and updates can be made seamlessly. When a design system is set up properly, creating new features and templates can happen fairly quickly. This allows us, as designers, to focus on solving user needs and creating an overall better user experience instead of spending our time on mundane tasks of re-creating patterns and modules.
Future of Designing Collaboration Experiences in Office 365 #sptechconKanwal Khipple
Imagine a future where silo'd departments and legacy processes don’t stand in our way. Today’s collaboration needs go from complex collaboration portals to simple innovation hubs and most importantly need to work for our devices. Designing portals to enable a new kind of collaboration and communication is an absolute necessity today.For the past couple years, I’ve had the opportunity to study how successful teams collaborate and have helped to transform the way teams work and collaborate together. In this session, I'll share what I’ve learned about making effective cross-discipline collaboration possible, and leave you with actionable approaches you can use to unite your team's communication and collaboration needs.
Proven Recipes for Designing Highly Adoptive Portals #collab365Kanwal Khipple
No one starts a project with the intent of building an ugly intranet. We always have good intentions to build the best communication and collaboration portal the company has ever seen. We ensure that executives and end users are involved to design and implement from a portal based on their experience. What ends up happening? Portals are built with too many links to content or even stale content, images that take too long to load or are generic. You even had good intentions to leverage many features and perhaps some are even using it. What you typically find is that after the initial buzz of the launch, adoption fails. Why is that? If that sounds like what you recently went through, then attend this session to learn the strategies and implement them tomorrow. Learn the key principles in building innovative solutions that are simple but capture user’s attention and increase adoption.
Lessons Learned from Designing Award Winning PortalsKanwal Khipple
No one has been using your employee portal and now you've been tasked with rebuilding it for success. Looking at this project you realize that you don't have sufficient time, budget or resources to deliver the portal successful. Are you wondering what you can do to convince more executives for more budget? Or perhaps, you'd like to be creative with what you have and still exceed expectations? If you've answered yes to both questions, this session is for you.
In this session, we'll go together on this journey on delivering a successful project. I'll be sharing some of my best practices from the field.
Features Covered
We'll be going through the following:
1. how to effectively build a business case on getting more budget, time and resources
2. how to effectively trace requirements from discovery, documenting functionality, development to QA / UAT
Session Objectives
In this session, you will learn...
1. Change Management Best Practices
2. Social Collaboration
3. Training and Adoption Strategies
4. Requirement Gathering
Every year we independently evaluate the marketplace for SharePoint intranet in-a-box products. In this webinar, we take an industry focus to consider the trends and prospects for products and vendors.
We'll begin with the state of the art identified in our 2019 SharePoint Intranets report, and compare Microsoft's roadmap with how vendors have responded. We'll also look at trends outside the SharePoint space and ask what should be learned.
Join us for 30 minutes of analysis and discussion, covering:
• In-a-box product trends
• Vendor changes and acquisitions, such as Wizdom, LiveTiles and Bonzai
• The non-SharePoint intranet space
• Likely developments into 2020
• Q&A.
Although practitioners are very welcome to join, this webinar is primarily aimed at vendors, service providers, Microsoft partners and investors.
The Future of Designing Collaboration Experiences #spsdetroitKanwal Khipple
Imagine a future where silo'd departments and legacy processes don’t stand in our way. Today’s collaboration needs go from complex collaboration portals to simple innovation hubs and most importantly need to work for our devices. Designing portals to enable a new kind of collaboration and communication is an absolute necessity today.For the past couple years, I’ve had the opportunity to study how successful teams collaborate and have helped to transform the way teams work and collaborate together. In this session, I'll share what I’ve learned about making effective cross-discipline collaboration possible, and leave you with actionable approaches you can use to unite your team's communication and collaboration needs.IN THIS SESSION YOU’LL HEAR: • Why cross-discipline collaboration is essential to future-ready digital design, and how you can play a key role in creating the cross-departmental teams to enable innovation • Real-life industry examples of what it takes to make effective collaboration possible • Practical techniques you can use to bridge silos, increase productivity, and deliver better outcomes for your teams
Proactive Governance & Adoption For Microsoft 365: Canadian Cloud SummitRichard Harbridge
Proactive governance of Microsoft 365 is critical as organizations continue to depend more and more on the competitive advantage and productivity it can provide. Microsoft 365’s value and impact are dependent on whether it is leveraged (adopted) and how efficiently it is leveraged (governance). However Microsoft 365 can be daunting to tackle around governance and management. Where do you start? Is Microsoft Teams governance what should be prioritized first? What part of Teams governance? The Microsoft Teams lifecycle and the Microsoft Teams lifecycle management? What do the business stakeholders lead, and what does IT lead? How do we drive adoption pro-actively while improving coordination, management, and end-user experiences with effective governance?
Join Richard Harbridge, a Microsoft MVP and internationally recognized expert on Microsoft 365 and the Digital Workplace, as he shares proven approaches to getting started with and succeeding in establishing and improving Microsoft 365 Governance. In shifting from a reactive approach to Microsoft 365 governance to a pro-active one and from a reactive approach to adoption to a pro-active approach to adoption that drives better results, accomplishes more with less, and empowers the organization to maximize the value of their digital workplace.
Microsoft Teams & Yammer Enterprise Social: Better TogetherRichard Harbridge
Organizations today need to be more responsive as people are more connected than ever. While many organizations understand the benefits social technology can provide it’s often not as clear how we can go about implementing these technologies to complement our organization’s investments in collaborative technologies like Yammer, Microsoft Teams, and SharePoint.
Join Richard Harbridge as he shares practical, real-world guidance for enterprise social and the future of work. Richard explains how and where customers are investing in social, what is changing and important to understand, and what technology investments have been made and are being made by Microsoft to help customers connect and work in a cloud-first and mobile-first world.
What being a remote first company taught us #M365VMKanwal Khipple
From the beginning, we have always been a remote first company. Consulting with customers remotely can be a challenge and was an important skill that we have been teaching to our teams. Though building trust with your team was harder than originally thought. We experimented and tried out a number of ways to be inclusive for our diverse team.
Attend this session to learn about
- Enabling every employee to have an impact
- Supporting and encouraging work/life balance
- Encouraging innovation through experimentation
Moving from Collaboration Pilot to Successful ImplementationChristian Buckley
One of the most common SharePoint and Office 365 failures is deploying the platform without a pilot. The collaboration pilot is an essential step for any enterprise deployment – and there are most definitely “best practices” you should consider.
Presentation given by Beezy Chief Evangelist and 6-time Microsoft MVP Christian Buckley walking through a repeatable process for running successful collaboration pilots, from management buy-in through to customer adoption planning.
The State of Enterprise UX 2016: Panel Discussionuxpin
You'll learn:
- The most pressing challenges faced by enterprise product teams today.
- The emerging themes of enterprise design for 2017 and beyond.
- Effective solutions for overcoming the hurdles of enterprise UX.
Your users may struggle with these questions:
• Should I share a message via Skype for Business instead of Yammer, Office 365 Groups, or Exchange?
• Should I collaborate on data using an Excel sheet or a SharePoint list?
• Should I share a file in Outlook, in a meeting, from OneDrive for Business, on Yammer, in a Group, or in a SharePoint site?
What happens when your users can't decide what technology or feature to use? They use what they know, or what’s easy; even if better options exist. In this session, join Richard Harbridge as he helps you maximize the value of your Office 365 investment by providing the guidance you need to help your users make better, more effective decisions on how they get work done.
Tackling Office 365 & SharePoint Adoption Like A ServiceRichard Harbridge
Office 365 provides an incredible amount of value to individual employees, teams, departments, and organizations. Much of this value is not realized immediately upon purchase or deployment of Office 365. The value is realized as more and more users understand, adopt, and embrace the technology.
So how do we drive faster, sustainable and effective adoption? Perhaps more importantly, how do we ensure our adoption approach scales and can keep up with the innovation the Office 365 service provides?
Join Richard Harbridge as he shares real-world experience, advice, and activities that other customers are leveraging to get more from Office 365 and drive more meaningful adoption.
Making The Most of Meetings with Microsoft Teams, Yammer & Microsoft 365Richard Harbridge
Meetings are necessary in any modern organization today. Sometimes they are highly productive, valuable, focused, and have a strong impact over time. What is it that makes a meeting, especially a remote meeting more effective? How do you ensure your meetings are more successful, or how can you improve meeting outcomes in your daily work? When and how should we use Outlook, Microsoft Teams, Yammer, OneNote and other meeting related technology?
Join Richard Harbridge, a Microsoft MVP, CTO at 2toLead and internationally recognized expert on Microsoft 365 and the Digital Workplace, who will share best practices on:
• How organizations today are making the most of meetings
• Improving pre-meeting collaboration and planning
• How organizations are benefiting post meeting from improved technologies and skills
Let us help you take your meetings, especially remote ones, to the next level and deliver more value.
Top 10 Digital Workplace Patterns #SPSChiBurbsKanwal Khipple
Imagine a future where silo'd departments and legacy processes don’t stand in our way. Today’s collaboration needs go from complex collaboration portals to simple innovation hubs and most importantly need to work for our devices. Designing portals to enable a new kind of collaboration and communication is an absolute necessity today.
For the past couple years, I’ve had the opportunity to study how successful teams collaborate and have helped to transform the way teams work and collaborate together. In this session, I'll share what I’ve learned about making effective cross-discipline collaboration possible, and leave you with actionable approaches you can use to unite your team's communication and collaboration needs.
Microsoft Search is looking to bring the search experiences across all Microsoft 365 services together into a single unified experience. Attend this session to learn how the experience impacts your users, how you can configure it as well as scenarios where you should customize it.
Lean UX in the Enterprise: A Government Case Studyuxpin
You'll learn:
- How to quickly identify user groups despite vague assumptions.
- How to define clear features amidst complex requirements and business objectives.
- How to establish efficient UX processes across disjointed teams.
SkyeNets Technologies and Valo Software
Agenda
- Transformation of the Modern workplace
What is Microsoft Teams
- Get an understanding of what Microsoft Teams can do for your organization
- Key features to help increase your organizations productivity
- User Adoption Best Practices and how to manage the risks of Team sprawl
- Demo: Microsoft Teams - Current State
- Demo: Valo Teamwork 2.0 - Future State
- Questions & Answers
Teams Governance - SharePoint Saturday Calgary 2019Morio Kumagawa
Teams has quickly become the faster growing App in Microsoft History. But like any other new toy, there are many pit falls to avoid.
In this session we will look at the key areas of Teams you need to be aware of and how to control it. Allowing you leverage Teams, while keeping your data secure
Accelerate Your #ModernWorkplace Success with #Microsoft365 Dux Raymond Sy
Presented at SharePoint Saturday Houston 2018
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Microsoft is on a mission to help organizations modernize. Government and enterprises need to upgrade legacy infrastructure while reducing costs and shrinking data center footprints. Using cloud based collaboration services and productivity applications, you can enable seamless communication and let users work the ways that they want in the cloud or in a hybrid environment – without sacrificing security!
Join AvePoint CMO and Microsoft Regional Director & MVP, Dux Raymond Sy for an interactive keynote on how you can accelerate Your modern workplace success with Microsoft 365
Authentic and accessible employee engagement with microsoft 365 dwcnzDarrell Webster
Informed employees work with greater purpose and a shared vision. Authentic leadership promotes honesty and engenders loyalty. When org-wide conversations are accessible, everyone has a chance to have their say and be heard.
This presentation was delivered at the Digital Workplace Conference NZ, Apr/May 2019.
Presentation shared with the Melbourne Australia-based #M365 Adoption User Group on January 31st, 2022.
Abstract: As organizations investigate the Microsoft Viva offerings and begin to develop their own Employee Experience strategies, one common question is: What can I do today to prepare for these new solutions? In this session, we'll cover the 4 business areas of Microsoft Viva (Culture & Communications, Productivity & Wellbeing, Knowledge & Expertise, Skilling & Growth) and their current (pre-Viva deployment) state, and what can/should be done to prepare for Viva. In addition, we'll walk through the customer and partner resources available to organizations to help you develop a comprehensive strategy.
In this deck I discuss the evolution of adoption best practices for Microsoft 365, real work employee wellness best practices and using Microsoft Teams, Power Platform and the resources from adoption.microsoft.com to speed value to your business.
Paul Wilkinson, co-Founder of GamingWorks and DevOps Agile Skills Association (DASA) Forerunner member shares details about GamingWorks' The Phoenix Project Business Simulation, which is a DevOps training program based on the best-selling novel by Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, and George Spafford. Both the book and the Simulation focus on IT, DevOps and helping business win. Paul discusses how business simulations drive active learning. He also shares how the simulation maps with the DASA Competence Model.
Watch the webinar recording: http://bit.ly/2IOuZcZ
Learning's Big Data Problem: Measuring & Analyzing ImpactWatershed
The wave of information known as Big Data has been growing exponentially in recent years. That's why it's critical for organizations to not only get better at collecting more meaningful data, but also understanding just what it all means.
Join us for a webinar next week, when we'll we review the results of Brandon Hall Group’s 2016 Learning Measurement Study and 2016 Learning Analytics Study, identify what organizations are measuring (and what they aren’t), and how they're making use of that data.
Presenters:
David Wentworth, Principal Learning Analyst with Brandon Hall Group
Michael Rochelle, Chief Strategy Officer & Principal HCM Analyst with Brandon Hall Group
Mike Rustici, CEO & Founder of Watershed
During this webinar, you'll learn more about:
-The metrics organizations are using
-The outcomes organizations are measuring
-How data is being analyzed
-Data analysis as a skill set
-How High Performers approach measurement & analytics
Tackling Employee Experience Today As We Embrace The Future WorkplaceRichard Harbridge
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Collaboration from the Trenches : Building your Internal Communities with Microsoft Teams
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Collaboration from the Trenches: Building your Internal Communities with Microsoft Teams
D’arce Hess
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3. 2021/2022
April 5 – 7, 2021
MGM Grand
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Dec 7 – 9, 2021
MGM Grand
Las Vegas, NV
In-Person – December and April
6. Communities of Practice
A community of practice (CoP) is a group of people
who share a common concern, a set of problems, or
an interest in a topic and who come together to fulfill
both individual and group goals.
7. 7
Advocates Insight
Social Local
Types of
Support
• Interests
• Sports
• Non-Business
related
• Water-cooler
conversations
• Help Desk
• How Do I?
• Champions Network
(share)
• Communications
• Role-based
• Stakeholders
• Executives
• Champions (get)
• Location-based
• Office
• Region
• Language
• Department/Function
8. 08
• Build transferable skills
• Improve Emotional Intelligence
Support System
• Sharing of Information
• New collaboration
• Creativity
Gives Each Person a Voice
• Mental Health
• Feeling Connected to Peers
• A part of something bigger
• Common Interests
Sense of Belonging
• Access to historical knowledge
• Who can help?
• How do I?
Get Information or to Solve a Problem
Why do People Join
10. Communications Flow
Large group
communication
(community/organisation)
Bring new
knowledge back
to team
Shared with
larger
community/
organisation
& store
employee
experience
Meeting
discussion &
outcome shared
Need to have a
conversation related
to team outcome
Presence
required
Sharing real
time
information for
discussion
Most effective
way
communication
method, ideal
for sensitive or
important
communications
Follow up
required
Need to have a
conversation with
specific
person/people
One way
instructional
broadcast
(transactional)
To be
consumed in
people’s own
time
Need to have
a discussion
Urgent
notification/
discussion
One way instructional
broadcast (persistence)
Transactional Long term value
11. Community focus
Community
• Interest/passion
• Facilitator
• Innovation
• Membership
Community
Organizational focus
• Active & Visible Sponsorship
• Culture of enablement
• Open communications
• Balanced focus on employees,
customers & shareholders
Yammer
Knowledge and expertise
Capture experience
Harness collective knowledge
Employee engagement
Share innovative ideas
Inner-source
Community calls + events
Video publish & broadcast
Corporate Comms
Corporate News
Enterprise document store
Data intelligence
Organizational behaviour
⊆ Organization
12. Knowledge and expertise
Inner-source
Organizational behaviour
Share innovative ideas
Employee engagement
Harness collective knowledge
Community calls + events
Capture experience Video publish & broadcast
Corporate Comms
Corporate News
Enterprise document store
Data intelligence
1. Membership is mandatory based
on skills required
2. Recommended team size is 5-12
individuals
3. Focus on outcome delivery
aligned with strategic priority of the
organization
1. Membership is optional based on
interest or passion
2. The larger the community, the
better
3. Focus on learning, innovating,
capture organizational experience
and employee engagement
Team
Capture notes
Team meetings
Manage team time
Track information & work
Manage team tasks
Store team files
Schedule work dependencies
Team instructions
Share screen/present
Our internal brand
Chat with team members
Performance insights
Ideate
Manage shift-work
Community + Organization
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Let’s Talk Adoption
There are multiples ways to gain adoption. What’s the best
approach for you?
Top Down Bottom Up
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Top Down Adoption
Cons
• Poor Leadership Impact
• Less room for creativity
• Team disengagement
• Lower proximity to decision
makers
Pros
• Widespread familiarity
• Clearer Communication
• Difficulties are easily identified
• Faster implementation
• Governance
15. 015
Bottom Up Adoption - Recommended
Cons
• Lack of cohesion
• Alignment with corporate vision
• Need for Governance checks
Pros
• Encourages collaboration
• Empowers your team
• Better alignment
• Encourages creativity
• Boost morale
17. Microsoft Teams
Communicate
through chat, meetings & calls
Collaborate
with deeply integrated Office 365 apps
Customize & Extend
with 3rd party apps, processes, and devices
Work with confidence
enterprise level security, compliance, and manageability
21. 021
Phased
Providing a phased approach will allow you to make
clear decisions, measure ROI, and plan for scalability
while having a clearly defined change management
process.
• Essential Roles
• Team Functionality
• Access Controls
Get Started
• Who
• Governance
• Use Cases
• Feedback
• Support
Experiment
• Define Outcomes
• Measure Success
Scale
23. WHO CAN CREATE TEAMS
Who is the initial set of users? IT-Led
or Self-Service Creation?
TEAMS NAMING
CONVENTIONS
Should there be consistency or search,
manual or automated?
GUEST ACCESS
Is there a need to collaborate with
those outside your organization?
APPROVED APPS
Do you have custom apps?
ARE MEETINGS INCLUDED
Is call quality and meeting quality on
the list to test?
LENGTH OF EXPERIMENT
How long is the initial roll-out before
going org wide and expanding?
Governance
24. • Enable in Teams Admin Center
• Access can be grated to existing Teams
Channels in Microsoft Teams
• Teams Admins can control which features
guests can and can’t use in Microsoft teams
• Gives access permission to an individual
user
Guest Access
25. • Configure in Teams Admin Center
• No access to Teams or Teams Resources
• External users in other domains are allowed to
find, call, chat and set up meeting with you
• By default, all external domains are allowed,
with option to add allowed domains or blocked
domains
External Access
26. Number of Teams User can Create 250
Teams a user can be a member of 1,000
Number of members in a team 25,000
Number of Org-Wide Teams allowed 5
Number of members in an org-wide team 10,000
Total number of teams an organization can have 500,000
Number of channels per team 200 including deleted channels
Number of private channels per team 30
Number of members in private channel 250
Audience Size for a live event 10,000 (20,000 till Jan. 2021)
General Limitations (as of 12/8/2021)
27. Microsoft Viva is an employee experience platform that brings
together communications, knowledge, learning, resources, and
insights in the flow of work. Powered by Microsoft 365 and
experienced through Microsoft Teams, Viva fosters a culture that
empowers people and teams to be their best from anywhere.
29. 029
• Uses AI –based task suggestions and meetings
• Shows where you are spending your time
• Send praise to colleagues to build relationships
• Take a break and remember to breath!
• See your To Do list
DEMO
32. Connect and engage people across the organization
Yammer
In Teams. In Outlook. In SharePoint. In Viva.
In custom apps & intranets.
Across web, mobile, Windows and Mac.
33. Yammer
Connect and engage people
across the organization
Microsoft Teams
Collaborate with your
workgroup to get stuff done
Community Knowledge Inclusion
Leadership Communication
Chat Meet Call
Collaborate Automate
Add the Communities app
Pin it to the app bar
Time sensitive
People don't think about sharing information that might be useful broadly
-TED Talk Stanley McCrystal
Taking the MOCA down to an individual level, and how we work every day, we use this idea of the audience and the value to help understand what belongs where when it comes to communication. So lets start and look at the flow of the information from this individual through the organisation:
Communities are a great place to find and share information, innovate by building on ideas of others and learn by exchanging experiences and skills. This enables leaders across the organisation to keep employees engaged, promoting transparency, diversity and inclusion.
A community is typically coordinated by a community facilitator and offers a number of different ‘needs’ to its members.
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Healthy communities drive knowledge creation, retention and application across the organisation. They keep the people tapped onto the heart-beat of the everyday and ensure that their wisdom and experience is retained for future generations of employees.
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For an organisation to be “productive” and imbibe good behaviours, the leadership must develop the right enablement culture through new ways of collaborating, communicating and sharing information - that focuses on creating a learning mindset.
According to research done by Prosci, The #1 obstacle to success for a major change, is ineffective sponsorship.
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An “Organization” is defined as - Social units (or human groupings) deliberately constructed and reconstructed to seek specific goals by coordinating the actions of their members.
The organisational perspective explore the generic capabilities that need to be established across the wider organisation, and include – the ability to assess organisational behaviour, live broadcasting, corporate communications & news, as well as the ability for people across the different business areas to create their own simple business solutions. Once again, the Microsoft 365 suite of technologies provide a holistic set of tools and applications that enable these core capabilities of every modern organisation.
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Yammer is the Community Management Platform in Microsoft 365 and we see typically see News, Social and Center of Excellence as the most common type of communities.
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Now, before we go forward, lets talk about some major differences between a team, and a community.
Let’s reflect on the definition of a team – a group of individuals, with interdependent activities that work together, towards a common goal.
So, the membership of each team member is mandatory, given that there is a dependency on their skills sets and their ability to complete their tasks.
Now think about this – each interdependency within the activity create additional risk towards achieving the outcome, and thus it is critical to manage the team size and the efficiency in team processes.
Research done by the Wharton University of Pennsylvania recommends that the ideal team size is between 5-12 members, which mitigates against the exponential increase in risk and focuses on getting work done.
With communities on the other hand, member is based on your interests. As employees need to tackle different challenges, they community membership also changes. The larger the community, the more perspectives members can benefit from. And where teams focus on outcome delivery, often aligned to the strategic priorities of the organisation, communities are there to ensure that employees are learning, growing, innovating and sharing the organisational experience.
In Microsoft 365, Yammer is the tool to connect and engage people across the organization.
That’s Yammer’s strategic position in the suite.
Yammer provides a set of differentiated superpowers to drive scenarios that are critical for organizations, particularly in these times of hybrid work. Those scenarios include:
Fostering community and connectedness. Yammer uniquely connects people across their working groups and flattens business silos. Yammer enables people to form communities around shared roles, initiatives, topics and interests. Conversations in Yammer are open by default, and Yammer enables people to serendipitously discover and connect valuable content, people and topics across the organization.
Communicating and engaging at scale. Communicators can reach and engage everyone in the organization, at scale. We have customers using Yammer to drive company-wide communications to hundreds of thousands of employees and frontline workers. Communicators can also use communities to define audience segments within an organization, and target messages more effectively. And when you post an announcement in Yammer it will reach your audience across Outlook, Teams, and Viva Connections, across web, PC, Mac, iOS and Android. Importantly, that means Yammer is the omni-channel communications tool in Microsoft 365.
Harnessing knowledge, answers and ideas. Communities are a place where people can come together to share best practices, ask and answer questions, solicit feedback, and generate ideas, together. We see customers getting significant business value with communities around topics, job roles, initiatives, and internal products and services.
Yammer supports these scenarios natively in our web, desktop and mobile apps, and we’re working hard to integrate Yammer’s superpowers and these scenarios into Teams, Outlook, SharePoint, Viva and even into your custom applications and intranets.
So Yammer is about connecting and engaging people across the organization. That broad set of outcomes and those scenarios have become more important than ever over the last 21 months. During the pandemic, organizations clamored to move their work to the cloud. They did a great job of figuring out how to keep work going, and many of you were directly involved with the success of your customers in in moving to the cloud.
But the pandemic also put stresses on organizations outside of individual working groups. It was more than just how do you keep collaborating and meeting in the cloud, but how do you drive culture? How do you drive organization wide communication? How do you break down barriers to share knowledge? How do you encourage people to connect and foster extended networks?
Individual connections have been shown to be critical to employee well being and success.
Those scenarios drove astronomical growth of Yammer over the past 2 years. Yammer now supports tens of millions of people every month, making it one of the largest enterprise communications platforms in the world.
Let’s dive into how we’re enabling community and discovery in your organizations.