There has never been a time where improving the employee experience has been more critical. Today, every organization shares a need to enhance how we communicate and engage, collaborate and connect, and manage and develop employees.
Join internationally recognized industry expert and Microsoft MVP Richard Harbridge as he shares insight into the future of employee experiences, how Microsoft 365 is changing, and perhaps more importantly, what organizations are doing today to prepare for it.
Piloting & Scaling Successfully With Microsoft VivaRichard Harbridge
With so many Viva capabilities available to organizations, it can be a challenge knowing which should be piloted together or what patterns and practices work best when piloting Viva Connections, Viva Learning, Viva Topics, Viva Goals, Viva Insights, Viva Pulse, Viva Amplify, and more. How do organizations get started successfully, overcome challenges in piloting and rolling out these experiences, and eventually scale to organization-wide deployments?
Join internationally recognized industry expert and Microsoft MVP Richard Harbridge as he shares insight into the lessons learned and proven approaches with Microsoft Viva. Together you will explore unique and vital challenges with Viva deployments, such as challenges with multiple tenants or multiple organizations in one tenant or challenges with experiences designed for scale – determining if an organization is large enough or has enough content for a great experience with Viva Topics and more.
Everything you need to know to create a modern Intranet/Digital Employee Expe...Thomas Maeder
Everything you need to know to create a modern Intranet/Digital Employee Experience with out of the box capabilities of SharePoint Online
Masterclass SharePoint modern vs classic
Modernize Solutions with SharePoint & the Power PlatformJonathan Schultz
Modernize common HR, IT and other functional processes with SharePoint and the Power Platform (PowerApps, Flow and Power BI).
- Re-think SharePoint portals
- Migrate forms (static & InfoPath) to mobile apps
- Leverage interactive dashboards to make data-based decisions
Microsoft Viva Connections
A curated, company-branded experience that brings together relevant news, conversations, and resources in the apps and devices you use every day. Viva Connections is included in all Microsoft 365 plans with SharePoint Online.
Create connection
Encourage meaningful connections across the organization in a hybrid workplace.
Drive alignment
Rally the entire organization around your vision, mission, and strategic priorities.
Empower contribution
Foster a culture of inclusion by empowering every employee to contribute ideas and share feedback.
Built on Microsoft 365
Deploy and manage Viva Connections through your existing infrastructure.
Vivafy your SharePoint intranet in Microsoft Teams with Viva ConnectionsJoel Oleson
“VIVAFY” Your SharePoint Intranet with Teams and Viva
Most companies are using Teams for chat, meetings, and basic collaboration. SharePoint Online has been a neglected investment who have invested in Microsoft 365 with many companies still running their Intranets in classic or even in SharePoint on premise. What is to be done?
How do you take advantage of this Viva wave? Agenda: In this session we’ll break down the tactical steps to take your SharePoint Intranets in whatever phase you are in, into your modern Teams environment for an improved experience. Some may simply be ready to create the powershell package and get Viva Connections deployed to take advantage of the app bar, search, and targeting, but others will need to prepare and should prepare. Here are some of the topics: – Get Your Intranet, Corporate Communications and Org News to Modern SharePoint Online – Design your Branding, Header/Footer, Site Design & Look Strategy – Design your Global Navigation, Information Architecture, and Hubs – Create and Deploy Powershell Package including Icons – Set your Root site and Official News – Manage your Taxonomy, M365 Groups, and Audience Targeting
Audience: Marketing, Communications, HR IT, IT Managers, Directors, Microsoft 365 Admins, and Teams Administrators Level: 100 & 200 Introduction and Assumes Basic Microsoft Teams Experience
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.
Proactive Governance & Adoption In Microsoft 365 - M365OttawaRichard 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.
To improve productivity in the workplace, learn more about how Microsoft Teams can help. Built on the power of Microsoft 365. Dock can build a custom SharePoint intranet portal to fit your business needs.
Request a demo: https://app.hubspot.com/meetings/joe24/dock-demo
Piloting & Scaling Successfully With Microsoft VivaRichard Harbridge
With so many Viva capabilities available to organizations, it can be a challenge knowing which should be piloted together or what patterns and practices work best when piloting Viva Connections, Viva Learning, Viva Topics, Viva Goals, Viva Insights, Viva Pulse, Viva Amplify, and more. How do organizations get started successfully, overcome challenges in piloting and rolling out these experiences, and eventually scale to organization-wide deployments?
Join internationally recognized industry expert and Microsoft MVP Richard Harbridge as he shares insight into the lessons learned and proven approaches with Microsoft Viva. Together you will explore unique and vital challenges with Viva deployments, such as challenges with multiple tenants or multiple organizations in one tenant or challenges with experiences designed for scale – determining if an organization is large enough or has enough content for a great experience with Viva Topics and more.
Everything you need to know to create a modern Intranet/Digital Employee Expe...Thomas Maeder
Everything you need to know to create a modern Intranet/Digital Employee Experience with out of the box capabilities of SharePoint Online
Masterclass SharePoint modern vs classic
Modernize Solutions with SharePoint & the Power PlatformJonathan Schultz
Modernize common HR, IT and other functional processes with SharePoint and the Power Platform (PowerApps, Flow and Power BI).
- Re-think SharePoint portals
- Migrate forms (static & InfoPath) to mobile apps
- Leverage interactive dashboards to make data-based decisions
Microsoft Viva Connections
A curated, company-branded experience that brings together relevant news, conversations, and resources in the apps and devices you use every day. Viva Connections is included in all Microsoft 365 plans with SharePoint Online.
Create connection
Encourage meaningful connections across the organization in a hybrid workplace.
Drive alignment
Rally the entire organization around your vision, mission, and strategic priorities.
Empower contribution
Foster a culture of inclusion by empowering every employee to contribute ideas and share feedback.
Built on Microsoft 365
Deploy and manage Viva Connections through your existing infrastructure.
Vivafy your SharePoint intranet in Microsoft Teams with Viva ConnectionsJoel Oleson
“VIVAFY” Your SharePoint Intranet with Teams and Viva
Most companies are using Teams for chat, meetings, and basic collaboration. SharePoint Online has been a neglected investment who have invested in Microsoft 365 with many companies still running their Intranets in classic or even in SharePoint on premise. What is to be done?
How do you take advantage of this Viva wave? Agenda: In this session we’ll break down the tactical steps to take your SharePoint Intranets in whatever phase you are in, into your modern Teams environment for an improved experience. Some may simply be ready to create the powershell package and get Viva Connections deployed to take advantage of the app bar, search, and targeting, but others will need to prepare and should prepare. Here are some of the topics: – Get Your Intranet, Corporate Communications and Org News to Modern SharePoint Online – Design your Branding, Header/Footer, Site Design & Look Strategy – Design your Global Navigation, Information Architecture, and Hubs – Create and Deploy Powershell Package including Icons – Set your Root site and Official News – Manage your Taxonomy, M365 Groups, and Audience Targeting
Audience: Marketing, Communications, HR IT, IT Managers, Directors, Microsoft 365 Admins, and Teams Administrators Level: 100 & 200 Introduction and Assumes Basic Microsoft Teams Experience
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.
Proactive Governance & Adoption In Microsoft 365 - M365OttawaRichard 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.
To improve productivity in the workplace, learn more about how Microsoft Teams can help. Built on the power of Microsoft 365. Dock can build a custom SharePoint intranet portal to fit your business needs.
Request a demo: https://app.hubspot.com/meetings/joe24/dock-demo
SharePoint Upgrade & Migration Planning: From Strategy To ExecutionRichard Harbridge
How do organizations successfully migrate or upgrade SharePoint to SharePoint Online, Microsoft Teams, & Modern SharePoint From Classic SharePoint Or Legacy Versions Of SharePoint Server?
In this session, MVP and expert Richard Harbridge will discuss what important considerations should be understood and planned before an upgrade/migration, what approaches have successfully worked for other companies, and practical guidance on how best to succeed with your modernization or migration project.
Scaled Agile, Inc., is the provider of SAFe®, the world’s leading framework for business agility. Through learning and certification, a global partner network, and a growing community of over 800,000 trained professionals, Scaled Agile helps enterprises build agility into their culture so they can quickly identify and deliver customer value, capitalize on emerging opportunities, and improve business outcomes. Learn more at scaledagile.com.
Learn from the experts at Netwoven on how to define your cloud strategy for SharePoint.
Key Takeaways:
- Develop your cloud migration strategy for SharePoint Online
- How to prepare for your migration
- Design your SharePoint Online Information Architecture
- Avoiding common errors while moving content and users to the cloud
- How to develop a successful change management plan
- What tools do you need for successful migrations? What are the trade-offs?
- The hard part – best practices for defining the migration logic for your organization
- Testing strategies for ensuring complete data migration
Getting started with share point online modernization - SharePoint Saturday T...Salman Ahmad
My session at SharePoint Saturday Toronto on Saturday November 23, 2019 at Microsoft Canada, Mississauga. It was about modernization of classic SharePoint Online sites.
20 M365 Productivity Tips That You've Probably Never Used (But Should)Christian Buckley
Sometimes you attend sessions that cover deep and complex topics that require a lot of attention, thought, and work on the part of the attendee… and then there is this one. Presented April 28th, 2021 as part of the M365 Virtual Marathon event.
In this fun and informative session, Microsoft MVP+RD Christian Buckley will present some of his favorite Microsoft 365 Productivity tips. The tips shared will focus on personal productivity, spanning the entire M365 platform (Yammer, SharePoint Online, Office ProPlus, etc).
Attendees should walk away with two or three gems that could change the way they work on a daily basis.
Training more about Document Library, OneDrive, Sharepoint Designer, Webpart and how to Deploy custom Webpart solution into Sharepoint 2019 On Premiese
What is New in Teams Meetings and Meeting Rooms July 2021David J Rosenthal
Chat
Share your opinion, and your personality. Send gifs, stickers, and emojis in a group chat or in one-to-one messages.
Instant messaging
Meet
Instantly go from group chat to video conference with the touch of a button. Teams of 2 or 10,000 can meet in one place, no matter how many places they’re in.
Online meetings
Call
Make and receive calls with internal and external groups using Microsoft Teams Phone, Operator Connect, or Direct Routing.
Voice calling
Collaborate
Easily find, share, and edit files in real time using familiar apps like Word, PowerPoint, and Excel in Teams.
Video conferencing
Make meetings more personal and increase your productivity by collaborating in real time.
Screen sharing
Keep everyone on the same page by sharing your screen so they can see the same content.
Custom backgrounds
Create the perfect virtual setting by choosing, uploading, or blurring your background.
Together mode
Digitally sit in a shared background, making it feel like you’re in the same room with everyone else.1
File sharing
Co-author files in real time. Securely store, access, share, and collaborate on files from anywhere.
Apps and workflows
Streamline tasks and critical business processes by integrating apps and workflows.
Market availability
Available in 53 languages and 181 markets. Connect across Windows, Mac, iOS, and Android.
Privacy and security
Meet regulatory, legal, and organizational needs with industry-leading compliance offerings.
Microsoft Viva. Viva is an employee experience platform that empowers people and teams to be their best, from anywhere.
Viva brings together communications, insights, knowledge, and learning within the flow of everyday work and collaboration, in Microsoft Teams.
Microsoft Teams is where most remote and hybrid work happens these days. And, Teams has become a hub where we can bring all these resources together into an integrated system of engagement – what Gartner calls a new work nucleus or digital workplace hub.
Importantly, with Microsoft 365 we already have foundational capabilities in each of these areas like Yammer, SharePoint, Stream, Workplace Analytics, Microsoft Search, LinkedIn, Glint and more.
Microsoft Viva builds on this foundation by adding innovative new services and insights focused on people development and success.
Connections is a company branded employee app in Teams. It is a gateway to your employee experience, with personalized news, communications, tasks, people and resources. It provides a single curated employee destination that can be configured for specific roles like frontline workers. So, leaders can communicate and engage their employees, and employees can get easy access to the tools and resources they need from one place.. Connections builds on existing capabilities in Microsoft 365 like SharePoint and Yammer. And it pulls your communications together into a pre-configured app in Teams, designed for both desktop and mobile workers. It also acts as a launching pad to the other 3 Viva modules
Insights brings together Workplace Analytics, MyAnalytics and Glint into a unified insights app in Teams to provide data-driven and privacy-protected insights for individuals, managers and leaders. For example, employees get personalized insights, only they can see, that help them protect their time for breaks, focused work, and learning in order to promote improved productivity and wellbeing.
Topics focuses on knowledge and expertise. Topics applies AI to identify knowledge and experts and organize them into shared topics. AI automatically creates a topic page for each topic. It’s like Wikipedia for the enterprise where AI does the first draft. And these topic pages are surfaced as Topic Cards right in the flow of work in Office and Teams.
Finally, Learning allows employees to easily discover informal and formal learning in the flow of work. It aggregates content from LinkedIn Learning, Microsoft Learn and 3rd party training content and your own organizations content – all in one place. Along with providing aggregation and recommendations, it also allows managers to assign and track training, as well as report on training within and across teams.
SkyeNets Technologies & Joel Oleson
A Deep dive at the different layers behind Microsoft Teams
- The Modern Workplace: From Traditional to Modern
- Teams Architecture: Doorway to the Workspace
- User adoption best practices and how to manage the risks of team sprawl
- DEMO: MS Teams – Overview Current State
- Introducing VALO Teamwork 2.0
- DEMO: Teamwork Future State
- Questions & Answers
September 2012 webinar presented by Prescient's Toby Ward and Jonas Lood. This presentation is perfect for organizations currently considering an intranet redevelopment project that want to learn strategies for improving the structure, usability and navigation of their intranet or portal.
We work with more people today than ever before. The scale, speed, and sprawl that collaboration requires are some of the biggest challenges facing organizations today. Today’s collaboration needs are dynamic and varied, from complex collaboration portals to small innovation teams. How can an organization succeed in enabling collaboration while mitigating or reducing the risks that come with it? How do we design and empower the right experiences to enable a new kind of compliant collaboration that is needed to meet future demands, all while leveraging the latest innovations from Microsoft collaboration platform Loop to Microsoft Viva.
Join Richard Harbridge, a Microsoft MVP and internationally recognized expert on Microsoft 365 and the Digital Workplace, in partnership with Colligo, as he shares insight on how to better plan, design, integrate and enhance collaboration within your organization. Hear proven approaches from tackling and managing Teams, SharePoint, and Community sprawl to enabling improved employee experiences that bring collaboration, process, and more directly into the places people already work like Microsoft Teams and Outlook today. Be inspired by actionable advice and solutions that maximize the power of metadata and integrate into the flow of work so that collaborated content is automatically (by default) protected, retained, categorized, and managed.
In this session you will hear:
Why compliant collaboration is essential to future-ready digital design, and how you can play a crucial role in creating the foundation for sustainable, scalable, and responsible collaboration that keeps pace with significant marketplace 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.
See examples of Microsoft Office collaboration software and powerful solutions from the community and specialist vendors like Colligo for solving real challenges around collaboration and content today.
Extending Collaboration with SharePoint and Microsoft TeamsChristian Buckley
Webinar presented on July 11th, 2018 for the European SharePoint, Office 365 & Azure Community that walks through the latest updates on SharePoint and Microsoft's messaging around "intelligent communications," and the role of Microsoft Teams alongside existing and future SharePoint infrastructure. Great guidance for people wondering how SharePoint and Teams should coincide.
Webinar: Microsoft Teams is Here! Presented by Avanade, AvePoint and Microsoft.Dux Raymond Sy
Just announced, Christophe Fiessenger, Program Manager for Office 365 Groups at Microsoft and AvePoint present a new webinar on Office 365 Groups! Register now: http://avept.it/2gIdgZF
By definition, Microsoft Teams is a chat-based workspace in Office 365 designed for teams of colleagues to collaborate. By design, Microsoft Teams is poised to change the way every individual in your organization works together – from Millennials to Baby Boomers.
Our panel of subject matter experts and MVPs, from AvePoint, Avanade, and Microsoft, discussed:
What is Microsoft Teams and what can it do for my organization?
What are the benefits of introducing Microsoft Teams to my end users?
What are the considerations of introducing Microsoft Teams to my end users?
How do I provide guidance (and governance) for my end users when rolling out Microsoft Teams alongside Yammer, Office 365 Groups, and everything else in their collaboration toolkit?
By the end of our webinar, we hope to have brought clarity about he impact Microsoft Teams can have on your organization and how adopting this upcoming addition to Office 365 can ensure your multi-generational teams are collaborating and communicating effectively.
Extending your Information Architecture to Microsoft TeamsChristian Buckley
Session from SharePointFest Seattle, Aug 22nd, 2019, presented by Microsoft RD + MVP Christian Buckley (@buckleyplanet). Content updated from previous versions of this session.
One of the collaboration strengths of Microsoft Teams is its relatively simple hierarchy, focused on improving small team (inner loop) collaboration and communication. However, organizations still need to be thoughtful about how they align their broader information architecture (IA).
This session outlines the core tenets of your SharePoint IA, how these translate across Microsoft Teams, and how Teams impacts your long-term IA strategy.
Getting The Most Out Of Microsoft 365 Employee Experience Today & Tomorrow - ...Richard Harbridge
Getting The Most Out Of Microsoft 365 Employee Experience: Today & Tomorrow
There has never been a time where improving the employee experience has been more critical. Organizations need new and innovative approaches and solutions as work and the workforce change. Today, every organization shares a need to enhance how we communicate and engage, collaborate and connect, and manage and develop employees. The question often hard to answer is, what is the best way to meet that growing need, especially in a way that meets it faster, with less cost and risk?Join internationally recognized industry expert and Microsoft MVP Richard Harbridge as he shares insight into the future of employee communication, employee collaboration, and employee management, how Microsoft 365 is changing these digital employee experiences and perhaps more importantly, what organizations are doing today to prepare for it.
Getting The Most Out Of Microsoft 365 Employee Experience Today & Tomorrow - ...Richard Harbridge
There has never been a time where improving the employee experience has been more critical. Organizations need new and innovative approaches and solutions as work and the workforce change. Today, every organization shares a need to enhance how we communicate and engage, collaborate and connect, and manage and develop employees. The question that is often hard to answer is, what is the best way to meet that growing need?
Join industry expert and Microsoft MVP Richard Harbridge and award-winning Digital Workplace strategist Brandon Pittman as they share insight into the future of employee communication, employee collaboration, and employee management, and perhaps more importantly, what organizations are doing today to prepare for it.
SharePoint Upgrade & Migration Planning: From Strategy To ExecutionRichard Harbridge
How do organizations successfully migrate or upgrade SharePoint to SharePoint Online, Microsoft Teams, & Modern SharePoint From Classic SharePoint Or Legacy Versions Of SharePoint Server?
In this session, MVP and expert Richard Harbridge will discuss what important considerations should be understood and planned before an upgrade/migration, what approaches have successfully worked for other companies, and practical guidance on how best to succeed with your modernization or migration project.
Scaled Agile, Inc., is the provider of SAFe®, the world’s leading framework for business agility. Through learning and certification, a global partner network, and a growing community of over 800,000 trained professionals, Scaled Agile helps enterprises build agility into their culture so they can quickly identify and deliver customer value, capitalize on emerging opportunities, and improve business outcomes. Learn more at scaledagile.com.
Learn from the experts at Netwoven on how to define your cloud strategy for SharePoint.
Key Takeaways:
- Develop your cloud migration strategy for SharePoint Online
- How to prepare for your migration
- Design your SharePoint Online Information Architecture
- Avoiding common errors while moving content and users to the cloud
- How to develop a successful change management plan
- What tools do you need for successful migrations? What are the trade-offs?
- The hard part – best practices for defining the migration logic for your organization
- Testing strategies for ensuring complete data migration
Getting started with share point online modernization - SharePoint Saturday T...Salman Ahmad
My session at SharePoint Saturday Toronto on Saturday November 23, 2019 at Microsoft Canada, Mississauga. It was about modernization of classic SharePoint Online sites.
20 M365 Productivity Tips That You've Probably Never Used (But Should)Christian Buckley
Sometimes you attend sessions that cover deep and complex topics that require a lot of attention, thought, and work on the part of the attendee… and then there is this one. Presented April 28th, 2021 as part of the M365 Virtual Marathon event.
In this fun and informative session, Microsoft MVP+RD Christian Buckley will present some of his favorite Microsoft 365 Productivity tips. The tips shared will focus on personal productivity, spanning the entire M365 platform (Yammer, SharePoint Online, Office ProPlus, etc).
Attendees should walk away with two or three gems that could change the way they work on a daily basis.
Training more about Document Library, OneDrive, Sharepoint Designer, Webpart and how to Deploy custom Webpart solution into Sharepoint 2019 On Premiese
What is New in Teams Meetings and Meeting Rooms July 2021David J Rosenthal
Chat
Share your opinion, and your personality. Send gifs, stickers, and emojis in a group chat or in one-to-one messages.
Instant messaging
Meet
Instantly go from group chat to video conference with the touch of a button. Teams of 2 or 10,000 can meet in one place, no matter how many places they’re in.
Online meetings
Call
Make and receive calls with internal and external groups using Microsoft Teams Phone, Operator Connect, or Direct Routing.
Voice calling
Collaborate
Easily find, share, and edit files in real time using familiar apps like Word, PowerPoint, and Excel in Teams.
Video conferencing
Make meetings more personal and increase your productivity by collaborating in real time.
Screen sharing
Keep everyone on the same page by sharing your screen so they can see the same content.
Custom backgrounds
Create the perfect virtual setting by choosing, uploading, or blurring your background.
Together mode
Digitally sit in a shared background, making it feel like you’re in the same room with everyone else.1
File sharing
Co-author files in real time. Securely store, access, share, and collaborate on files from anywhere.
Apps and workflows
Streamline tasks and critical business processes by integrating apps and workflows.
Market availability
Available in 53 languages and 181 markets. Connect across Windows, Mac, iOS, and Android.
Privacy and security
Meet regulatory, legal, and organizational needs with industry-leading compliance offerings.
Microsoft Viva. Viva is an employee experience platform that empowers people and teams to be their best, from anywhere.
Viva brings together communications, insights, knowledge, and learning within the flow of everyday work and collaboration, in Microsoft Teams.
Microsoft Teams is where most remote and hybrid work happens these days. And, Teams has become a hub where we can bring all these resources together into an integrated system of engagement – what Gartner calls a new work nucleus or digital workplace hub.
Importantly, with Microsoft 365 we already have foundational capabilities in each of these areas like Yammer, SharePoint, Stream, Workplace Analytics, Microsoft Search, LinkedIn, Glint and more.
Microsoft Viva builds on this foundation by adding innovative new services and insights focused on people development and success.
Connections is a company branded employee app in Teams. It is a gateway to your employee experience, with personalized news, communications, tasks, people and resources. It provides a single curated employee destination that can be configured for specific roles like frontline workers. So, leaders can communicate and engage their employees, and employees can get easy access to the tools and resources they need from one place.. Connections builds on existing capabilities in Microsoft 365 like SharePoint and Yammer. And it pulls your communications together into a pre-configured app in Teams, designed for both desktop and mobile workers. It also acts as a launching pad to the other 3 Viva modules
Insights brings together Workplace Analytics, MyAnalytics and Glint into a unified insights app in Teams to provide data-driven and privacy-protected insights for individuals, managers and leaders. For example, employees get personalized insights, only they can see, that help them protect their time for breaks, focused work, and learning in order to promote improved productivity and wellbeing.
Topics focuses on knowledge and expertise. Topics applies AI to identify knowledge and experts and organize them into shared topics. AI automatically creates a topic page for each topic. It’s like Wikipedia for the enterprise where AI does the first draft. And these topic pages are surfaced as Topic Cards right in the flow of work in Office and Teams.
Finally, Learning allows employees to easily discover informal and formal learning in the flow of work. It aggregates content from LinkedIn Learning, Microsoft Learn and 3rd party training content and your own organizations content – all in one place. Along with providing aggregation and recommendations, it also allows managers to assign and track training, as well as report on training within and across teams.
SkyeNets Technologies & Joel Oleson
A Deep dive at the different layers behind Microsoft Teams
- The Modern Workplace: From Traditional to Modern
- Teams Architecture: Doorway to the Workspace
- User adoption best practices and how to manage the risks of team sprawl
- DEMO: MS Teams – Overview Current State
- Introducing VALO Teamwork 2.0
- DEMO: Teamwork Future State
- Questions & Answers
September 2012 webinar presented by Prescient's Toby Ward and Jonas Lood. This presentation is perfect for organizations currently considering an intranet redevelopment project that want to learn strategies for improving the structure, usability and navigation of their intranet or portal.
We work with more people today than ever before. The scale, speed, and sprawl that collaboration requires are some of the biggest challenges facing organizations today. Today’s collaboration needs are dynamic and varied, from complex collaboration portals to small innovation teams. How can an organization succeed in enabling collaboration while mitigating or reducing the risks that come with it? How do we design and empower the right experiences to enable a new kind of compliant collaboration that is needed to meet future demands, all while leveraging the latest innovations from Microsoft collaboration platform Loop to Microsoft Viva.
Join Richard Harbridge, a Microsoft MVP and internationally recognized expert on Microsoft 365 and the Digital Workplace, in partnership with Colligo, as he shares insight on how to better plan, design, integrate and enhance collaboration within your organization. Hear proven approaches from tackling and managing Teams, SharePoint, and Community sprawl to enabling improved employee experiences that bring collaboration, process, and more directly into the places people already work like Microsoft Teams and Outlook today. Be inspired by actionable advice and solutions that maximize the power of metadata and integrate into the flow of work so that collaborated content is automatically (by default) protected, retained, categorized, and managed.
In this session you will hear:
Why compliant collaboration is essential to future-ready digital design, and how you can play a crucial role in creating the foundation for sustainable, scalable, and responsible collaboration that keeps pace with significant marketplace 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.
See examples of Microsoft Office collaboration software and powerful solutions from the community and specialist vendors like Colligo for solving real challenges around collaboration and content today.
Extending Collaboration with SharePoint and Microsoft TeamsChristian Buckley
Webinar presented on July 11th, 2018 for the European SharePoint, Office 365 & Azure Community that walks through the latest updates on SharePoint and Microsoft's messaging around "intelligent communications," and the role of Microsoft Teams alongside existing and future SharePoint infrastructure. Great guidance for people wondering how SharePoint and Teams should coincide.
Webinar: Microsoft Teams is Here! Presented by Avanade, AvePoint and Microsoft.Dux Raymond Sy
Just announced, Christophe Fiessenger, Program Manager for Office 365 Groups at Microsoft and AvePoint present a new webinar on Office 365 Groups! Register now: http://avept.it/2gIdgZF
By definition, Microsoft Teams is a chat-based workspace in Office 365 designed for teams of colleagues to collaborate. By design, Microsoft Teams is poised to change the way every individual in your organization works together – from Millennials to Baby Boomers.
Our panel of subject matter experts and MVPs, from AvePoint, Avanade, and Microsoft, discussed:
What is Microsoft Teams and what can it do for my organization?
What are the benefits of introducing Microsoft Teams to my end users?
What are the considerations of introducing Microsoft Teams to my end users?
How do I provide guidance (and governance) for my end users when rolling out Microsoft Teams alongside Yammer, Office 365 Groups, and everything else in their collaboration toolkit?
By the end of our webinar, we hope to have brought clarity about he impact Microsoft Teams can have on your organization and how adopting this upcoming addition to Office 365 can ensure your multi-generational teams are collaborating and communicating effectively.
Extending your Information Architecture to Microsoft TeamsChristian Buckley
Session from SharePointFest Seattle, Aug 22nd, 2019, presented by Microsoft RD + MVP Christian Buckley (@buckleyplanet). Content updated from previous versions of this session.
One of the collaboration strengths of Microsoft Teams is its relatively simple hierarchy, focused on improving small team (inner loop) collaboration and communication. However, organizations still need to be thoughtful about how they align their broader information architecture (IA).
This session outlines the core tenets of your SharePoint IA, how these translate across Microsoft Teams, and how Teams impacts your long-term IA strategy.
Getting The Most Out Of Microsoft 365 Employee Experience Today & Tomorrow - ...Richard Harbridge
Getting The Most Out Of Microsoft 365 Employee Experience: Today & Tomorrow
There has never been a time where improving the employee experience has been more critical. Organizations need new and innovative approaches and solutions as work and the workforce change. Today, every organization shares a need to enhance how we communicate and engage, collaborate and connect, and manage and develop employees. The question often hard to answer is, what is the best way to meet that growing need, especially in a way that meets it faster, with less cost and risk?Join internationally recognized industry expert and Microsoft MVP Richard Harbridge as he shares insight into the future of employee communication, employee collaboration, and employee management, how Microsoft 365 is changing these digital employee experiences and perhaps more importantly, what organizations are doing today to prepare for it.
Getting The Most Out Of Microsoft 365 Employee Experience Today & Tomorrow - ...Richard Harbridge
There has never been a time where improving the employee experience has been more critical. Organizations need new and innovative approaches and solutions as work and the workforce change. Today, every organization shares a need to enhance how we communicate and engage, collaborate and connect, and manage and develop employees. The question that is often hard to answer is, what is the best way to meet that growing need?
Join industry expert and Microsoft MVP Richard Harbridge and award-winning Digital Workplace strategist Brandon Pittman as they share insight into the future of employee communication, employee collaboration, and employee management, and perhaps more importantly, what organizations are doing today to prepare for it.
Getting The Most Out Of Microsoft 365 Employee Experience Today & Tomorrow - ...Richard Harbridge
Getting The Most Out Of Microsoft 365 Employee Experience: Today & Tomorrow
There has never been a time where improving the employee experience has been more critical. Organizations need new and innovative approaches and solutions as work and the workforce change. Today, every organization shares a need to enhance how we communicate and engage, collaborate and connect, and manage and develop employees. The question often hard to answer is, what is the best way to meet that growing need, especially in a way that meets it faster, with less cost and risk?Join internationally recognized industry expert and Microsoft MVP Richard Harbridge as he shares insight into the future of employee communication, employee collaboration, and employee management, how Microsoft 365 is changing these digital employee experiences and perhaps more importantly, what organizations are doing today to prepare for it.
There is a growing trend of organizations embracing new capabilities in “the cloud” to meet their digital workplace and Intranet needs. While some organizations are running their Intranets “on premise,” most are transitioning or have migrated to cloud-based solutions or run them on platforms like Microsoft 365.
The question for many companies is not “should our intranet be built with Microsoft 365?” but “how should we integrate or build our Intranets with Microsoft 365”. This is even more true today with the emergence of new modern Intranet capabilities and continued innovation from Microsoft that must be reconciled with enterprise Intranet/Digital Workplace needs.
In this session Richard Harbridge will explore:
• The benefits new Office 365 features bring to an intranet
• Where the issues and challenges will lie
• Practical guidance on when and how you may integrate Office 365 with your existing intranet today
Piloting & Scaling Successfully With Microsoft VivaRichard Harbridge
Piloting & Scaling Successfully With Microsoft Viva
With so many Viva capabilities available to organizations, it can be a challenge knowing which should be piloted together or what patterns and practices work best when piloting Viva Connections, Viva Learning, Viva Topics, Viva Goals, Viva Insights, Viva Pulse, Viva Amplify, and more. How do organizations get started successfully, overcome challenges in piloting and rolling out these experiences, and eventually scale to organization-wide deploymentsJoin internationally recognized industry expert and Microsoft MVP Richard Harbridge as he shares insight into the lessons learned and proven approaches with Microsoft Viva. Together you will explore unique and vital challenges with Viva deployments, such as challenges with multiple tenants or multiple organizations in one tenant or challenges with experiences designed for scale - determining if an org is large enough or has enough content for a great experience with Viva Topics and more.
Smarter, Not Harder How AI Is Changing Employee Experience - Reworked Connect...Richard Harbridge
Over the past few years, rapid changes have disrupted how companies lead, enable, empower, and engage around employee experience. Leaders in communications and human resources are all tackling new challenges in connecting with employees and may be overwhelmed with increased communication and collaboration volume, velocity, and variety. To help combat this challenge, rapid innovations in automation and artificial intelligence technology have created new tools for employees and leaders to use and master.
In this masterclass session, Richard Harbridge - a Microsoft MVP and leading industry expert on employee experience - will share insights on how automation and AI technology are revolutionizing employee experience strategies. You’ll learn about the latest trends in AI and employee experience, including the implications of OpenAI for employee experience strategies. You’ll also discover how emerging tech innovations like ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, and more are changing the playing field forever.
Whether you’re a leader in communications, technology, or human resources, this masterclass will provide valuable insights and tools to help you empower and enable your employees more effectively and prepare for the future of work. Join us as we explore proven employee experience strategies to help you stay ahead of the curve.
Modern HR, Communication, & Leadership Best Practices With Microsoft 365Richard Harbridge
Today Intranets are about more than just getting key corporate messaging out. Communications have changed just as IT and HR have changed. Communications leaders have shifted from editors to enablers. Communication leaders are moving from enforcing messaging to empowering and amplifying excellent communications and great ideas throughout the business. Human Resources leaders are shifting from hiring/firing and policy enforcement to performance and engagement. From preboarding to offboarding, HR's challenges are harder today than they have ever been before. Naturally, how these leaders leverage the digital workplace has changed, especially in how they leverage technology to achieve more with less. Join Richard Harbridge, a Microsoft MVP and internationally recognized expert on Microsoft 365 and the Digital Workplace, as he explores ideas and solutions that HR and Corporate Communications have embraced to improve how, where, and when they engage with employees. We will discuss how to best leverage SharePoint, Microsoft Teams, and Yammer for modern communications and take advantage of AI and Microsoft technology to accelerate and improve key communication and content. The technology, best practices, and approach can make all the difference, and it has, for some organizations, led to more significant HR, Intranet, and communications success.
Intranets & Digital Hubs With Microsoft 365: What You Need To KnowRichard Harbridge
There is a growing trend of organizations embracing new capabilities in “the cloud” to meet their digital workplace and Intranet needs. While some organizations are running their Intranets “on premise,” most are transitioning or have migrated to cloud-based solutions or run them on platforms like Microsoft 365.
The question for many companies is not “should our intranet be built with Microsoft 365?” but “how should we integrate or build our Intranets with Microsoft 365”. This is even more true today with the emergence of new modern Intranet capabilities and continued innovation from Microsoft that must be reconciled with enterprise Intranet/Digital Workplace needs.
In this session Richard Harbridge will explore:
• The benefits new Microsoft 365 features bring to an intranet
• Where the issues and challenges will lie
• Practical guidance on when and how you may integrate Microsoft 365 with your existing intranet today
INT303 Beyond The Intranet Digital Workplace Apps, Solutions n Bots #365EDUConKanwal Khipple
How to respond to the ever-increasing demand for powerful and integrated solutions that support users' needs across their digital workplace and beyond. Leveraging Office 365 means that you have access to entirely new ways of building solutions faster than ever before. The best part? It's not just IT that can build these great solutions!
What's Changed with SharePoint in the Past Few Years and Why It MattersRichard Harbridge
Office 365 and SharePoint are evolving fast. A few years ago many of us may have begun modernizing our SharePoint environments - planning an upgrade or a migration to SharePoint 2013 or even SharePoint Online. Since that time many things have changed in both SharePoint Server and Office 365, not to mention within our organizations. New services have been added, and many of those services are improving with each passing month. What approaches, strategies and rollout models are other organizations using? What can we learn from their successes?
Join us for this facilitated and interactive discussion where instead of just looking forward, we look back into key changes that we all need to understand better. This discussion will be facilitated by Richard Harbridge, a Microsoft MVP, and internationally recognized expert on Office 365 and SharePoint. Together we will discuss what has changed in the past few years for developers, IT professionals, and SharePoint leads while exploring how organizations are leveraging these services in different ways today.
Solving Today's HR, Communication & Leadership Challenges With Microsoft 365 ...Richard Harbridge
Microsoft 365 Intranets are capable of a lot more than just getting key corporate messaging out.
Internal Communications leaders have shifted from editors to enablers. With that shift comes a change from enforcing messaging to empowering and amplifying excellent communications and great ideas throughout the business. From preboarding to offboarding, HR's challenges are harder today than they have ever been before. Naturally, how these leaders leverage the digital workplace has changed as well, especially in how they leverage technology to achieve more with less.
Join our Product Offering Lead, Anders Fagerlund, and the CTO of 2toLead, Richard Harbridge, a Microsoft MVP and internationally recognized expert on Microsoft 365 and the Digital Workplace. This webinar will explore ideas and solutions that HR and Corporate Communications have embraced to improve how, where, and when they engage with employees.
We will discuss:
How to best leverage SharePoint, Microsoft Teams, and Yammer for modern communications.
How to take advantage of AI and Microsoft technology to accelerate and improve key communication and content.
Microsoft Intranet's best practices and approach that can make all the difference.
There will also be a short Q&A session at the end of the webinar.
Target audience
This event is primarily aimed at roles like CIO, CCO, CTO, Digital Workplace or Intranet Managers or similar roles within organizations planning to improve their digital workplace based on Microsoft technology.
Intranets & Digital Hubs What You Need To Know M365CincyRichard Harbridge
There is a growing trend of organizations embracing new capabilities in “the cloud” to meet their digital workplace and Intranet needs. While some organizations are running their Intranets “on premise,” most are transitioning or have migrated to cloud-based solutions or run them on platforms like Microsoft 365
The question for many companies is not “should our intranet be built with Microsoft 365?” but “how should we integrate or build our Intranets with Microsoft 365”. This is even more true today with the emergence of new modern Intranet capabilities and continued innovation from Microsoft that must be reconciled with enterprise Intranet/Digital Workplace needs
In this session Richard Harbridge will explore
• The benefits new Microsoft 365 features bring to an intrane
• Where the issues and challenges will li
• Practical guidance on when and how you may integrate Office 365 with your existing intranet today
Live Link: Join on Microsoft Teams
Best Practices For Getting The Most Out Of Your Intranet & Digital Workplace ...Richard Harbridge
What’s the best way to improve a successful Intranet or Digital Workplace? With intelligence, analytics and targeted insight!
Modernizing your Intranets and Digital Workplaces with the latest version of SharePoint or Office 365 is necessary but not sufficient. The question for many organizations is how we get even more value out of the Intranet after it has been upgraded, migrated and modernized. To achieve greater levels of success you need greater insight and to understand the importance of engagement, analytics and how these can improve employee experiences and content within the organization.
Join Richard Harbridge, Office 365 MVP & Intranet expert, as he shares engagement & analytics real world examples and best practices. These practices have helped successful customers get more from Office 365, SharePoint, their Intranets and their Digital Workplaces.
Presentation given at SharePointFest Seattle (#SPFestSea) in August, 2018 at the Washington State Convention Center. The purpose of the presentation is to provide s general overview of the capabilities of Teams, and demonstrate how it works with other major workloads, including SharePoint, Yammer, Exchange, and external productivity solutions and services.
INT103 Intranets With Office 365 What You Need To Know #365EDUConKanwal Khipple
What's more organizations are challenging the Intranet to be more of an interactive and engaging digital hub for their digital workplace than just a communication centric portal.
The top two questions for many companies is “should our intranet be built with Office 365?” and "how should we best leverage it with Office 365?"
In this session we will explore:
• The benefits Office 365 brings to an intranet...
• Where the issues and challenges will lie...
• When and how you may integrate Office 365 with your existing intranet and digital workplace today.
The future of designing collaboration experiences #spsottawaKanwal 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
Tackling Employee Experience Today As We Embrace The Future WorkplaceRichard Harbridge
Tackling Employee Experience Today As We Embrace The Future Workplace
The future workplace needs to take into account how the employee experience landscape is changing and the importance of digital experiences throughout the employee journey. The employee experience journey starts before the employee is hired and lasts after they depart. Focusing on the employee experience can feel like a daunting task when reviewing the many different stages of an employee’s journey, but we know understanding and improving these stages can lead to a much more positive employee experience, and maximize the retention, impact, engagement, and performance of the employee.
STRATEGY & SUCCESS WITH MICROSOFT 365: Practical Tools & Techniques For Strat...Richard Harbridge
People are complex. Office 365 is complex. Add the two together and you get some of the most challenging, difficult, and stressful situations, especially if you are responsible for facilitating shared understanding between them.
Join Richard Harbridge to learn about actionable techniques to improve, simplify and amplify your leadership, business analysis and information architecture efforts with Office 365. Walk away with improved confidence when dealing with business and non-technical related challenges of Office 365, and be familiarized with effective tools and techniques that make Office 365 implementations more successful.
Topics will include:
• Aligning with the Microsoft Roadmap
• Planning & Implementing For Scale
• Aligning With Industry Trends
• Pro-Active Planning (Estimates, Roadmaps, Adoption, Etc.)
• Visualizing & Communicating Better (Many Tips & Tricks)
Practical Tips on Designing an Effective Digital Workplace #nycentcollabKanwal Khipple
Better understand how you can build your digital hub powered by SharePoint Online. We’ll dive into how Hub Sites, Communication and broader team sites can support with your digital workplace strategy
https://www.meetup.com/New-York-Enterprise-Collaboration-Meetup/events/253764356/
Intranets With Office 365: What You Need To Know #spsdenver #spscolo #spsdenKanwal Khipple
There is a growing trend of organisations moving to “the cloud” to meet their intranet needs. While many organisations are running their Intranets “on premise”, many are considering entirely cloud-based solutions or running them on platforms like Office 365. What's more organizations are challenging the Intranet to be more of an interactive and engaging digital hub for their digital workplace than just a communication centric portal.
The top two questions for many companies is “should our intranet be built with Office 365?” and "how should we best leverage it with Office 365?"
In this session lets explore:
- The benefits Office 365 brings to an intranet...
- Where the issues and challenges will lie...
- When and how you may integrate Office 365 with your existing intranet and digital workplace today..
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Preparing, Piloting & Paths to Success with Microsoft Copilot
In the modern post generative AI era, leveraging innovative tools is crucial for enhancing productivity and improving performance. This workshop will explore how to get the most out of Microsoft 365 Copilot, Microsoft Viva Copilot and Microsoft Copilot experiences. Join Microsoft MVP and industry expert Richard Harbridge as we delve into challenges surrounding its adoption including initial preparation, user training, support, governance and integration into existing workflows. We will start with an overview highlighting the critical to understand elements that make Copilot so impactful in organizations today along with plenty of data and industry insights. As we transition into guidance around piloting Microsoft 365 Copilot, participants will explore its robust features through rich examples. Engaging with real-world scenarios will unveil common hurdles and provide a clear roadmap towards optimizing Microsoft 365 Copilot for your organizational needs.
Bridging The Gap: How AI Is Transforming Both Customer Experience & Employee ...Richard Harbridge
In the post-pandemic and hybrid world, the importance of effective conversations in both customer experience (CX) and employee experience (EX) has surged.
Historically, voice data has primarily enhanced customer support, but with the integration of advanced recording, transcription, and AI-driven tools, there's a newfound potential to elevate all employee interactions.
AI copilot agents stand at the forefront of this transformation, offering streamlined customer interactions, real-time insights for support agents, and organizational agility. The transition from chat to voice calls presents both an opportunity and a challenge.
While analytics have been a mainstay in , their application in remains largely untapped. This disparity offers organizations a chance to holistically understand operations and create a seamless synergy between CX and EX.
However, the utilization of AI and analytics brings forth challenges, especially concerning data anonymization and de-anonymization in the context of employee data. As privacy norms evolve, organizations must tread carefully, balancing the promise of AI with ethical considerations.
Join industry experts , Chief Executive Officer of and Chief Technology Officer at as they share insights, best practices and lessons learned that can help your organization navigate forward faster with AI.
Getting The Most Out Of Microsoft 365 Employee Experience Today & TomorrowRichard Harbridge
There has never been a time where improving the employee experience has been more critical.
Today, every organization shares a need to enhance how we communicate and engage, collaborate and connect, and manage and develop employees.
Join internationally recognized industry expert and Microsoft MVP Richard Harbridge as he shares insight into the future of employee experiences, how Microsoft 365 is changing, and perhaps more importantly, what organizations are doing today to prepare for it.
Mastering Microsoft 365: The Winning Trio Of Automation, Governance & AdoptionRichard Harbridge
Mastering Microsoft 365: The Winning Trio of Automation, Governance, and Adoption
In today's rapidly evolving digital landscape, mastering Microsoft 365 is no longer just a luxury—it's a necessity. Join us for an enlightening webinar presented by Microsoft MVP and renowned industry expert, Richard Harbridge, as we delve deep into how automation, governance and adoption can not only improve the management, but the employee experience of Microsoft 365.
What we'll cover:
Governance and Lifecycle Mastery: Understand the critical nuances of the governance and lifecycle of SharePoint sites and teams. Navigate the complexities with ease and ensure your organization's digital assets are managed effectively and securely.
Tackling Sprawl: With the proliferation of digital tools and platforms, sprawl has become a pressing concern. Learn actionable strategies to manage and mitigate sprawl, ensuring your digital ecosystem remains organized and efficient improving both the management and employee experience.
The Power of Automation: Discover how automation and programmatic improvements not only streamline operations but also lead to proactive management. Unleash the potential of Microsoft 365 by leveraging automation to its fullest.
The Symbiotic Relationship of Governance and Adoption: Dive into the intricate relationship between governance and adoption. Understand how a robust governance framework can bolster adoption rates and how fostering adoption can, in turn, reinforce governance.
In a world where efficiency, security, and adaptability are paramount, mastering Microsoft 365 can set your organization leagues ahead of the competition. Equip yourself with the knowledge and strategies to make the most of this powerful suite and drive your organization towards unparalleled success.
Elevate Your Microsoft 365 Experience The Winning Trio Of AI, Analytics & Aut...Richard Harbridge
Let Microsoft MVP Richard Harbridge guide you through the exciting world of AI, analytics, and automation in Microsoft 365.
Uncover the innovative ways organizations are optimizing collaboration, communication, and management for employees, leaders, and managers, all while empowering your organization to thrive in an ever-evolving digital landscape.
Elevate Your Microsoft 365 Experience The Winning Trio Of AI, Analytics & Rec...Richard Harbridge
Redefine and elevate your SaaS experience.
In today's rapidly evolving digital landscape, Software as a Service (SaaS) platforms are no longer just about providing tools; they're about enhancing user experiences, driving efficiency, and ensuring that businesses stay ahead of the curve. Enter the transformative trio: AI, Analytics, and Recommendations. This session delves deep into the synergistic relationship between these three pillars, illustrating how they can be harnessed to elevate your SaaS experience to unprecedented heights.
Join Richard Harbridge, Microsoft MVP and leading industry expert as he shares best practices and real-world examples from Microsoft 365, SharePoint Online, Microsoft Teams, and Microsoft Viva that advance your SaaS experience.
Together attendees will gain insights into:
Analytics - Understand your user behavior, workflow efficiencies, and areas of improvement. Dive into how Microsoft 365's robust analytics can offer actionable insights to optimize your business processes.
AI - Beyond just data, discover how AI can be a game-changer in action management. Learn how Microsoft's AI capabilities not only predict but proactively address challenges, ensuring a seamless and enhanced user experience.
Recommendations - Personalization is key in today's SaaS world. Explore how Microsoft 365 tailors recommendations based on user behavior, ensuring that each interaction is relevant, timely, and actionable.
By the end of this session, participants will be equipped with the knowledge and inspiration to leverage the power of AI, analytics, and recommendations, transforming their SaaS platforms from mere tools to dynamic, adaptive, and optimized experiences. Join us for this first session of this series and embark on a journey to redefine and elevate your SaaS experience.
Metaverse & The Employee Experience: What You Need To KnowRichard Harbridge
Back in the day we would use 'who installed a browser' that wasn't the default as an 'indirect signal' that denoted a level of individual interest in improving their digital productivity or experience. Nowadays we are swimming in indirect signals - from who organizes the most meetings (named if you use Audit log etc) to dynamics around networking (Viva Insights) to who uses Teams Apps (another great indirect signal of expanding productivity/investing in digital experiences).
What still works best though is direct signals like comments, nominations, champion programs (yearly and NON MANAGER & NON IT focused) and more that help identify people and map them/amplify their visibility as potential super collaborators, those with high amounts of digital debt and those who would better benefit from greater digital fitness or digital experience investments.
Elevate Your Microsoft 365 Experience The Winning Trio Of AI, Analytics & Aut...Richard Harbridge
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Ideas & Inspiration: Getting Started & Driving Success With Power Platform At...Richard Harbridge
Understanding the many capabilities of the Microsoft Power Platform is essential for any technology leader in today's world. Yet, the more significant challenge for many business leaders is understanding how they can drive meaningful impact in their own business based on these technologies.Power Platform makes incredible things possible at a fraction of the cost. Still, the focus often is on the plumbing or ways Power Platform supports that future state instead of envisioning future states powered by them. This session will focus on the best strategies to leverage when building business momentum around the Microsoft Power Platform. We will explore how organizations inspire and grow their usage of these tools and ideas/examples of Power Platform solutions that drive success for other customers.Join Richard Harbridge, a Microsoft MVP and internationally recognized expert on Microsoft 365 and the Employee Experience, as he shares insight on how to better plan for, prepare for and benefit from the future of the Microsoft Power Platform.
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These past few years have accelerated changes and disrupted how companies lead, enable, empower, and engage around communications. Leaders in communications and human resources are all tackling new challenges in connecting with employees and may be overwhelmed with increased communication volume, velocity, and variety. To help combat this challenge, rapid innovations in automation and artificial intelligence technology have created new tools for communicators to use and master, but becoming an early adopter of emerging tech is not without its risks. Join Richard Harbridge, a Microsoft MVP and leading industry expert on employee experience, as he shares insights on the implications of OpenAI for communications strategies, the tech innovations to prepare for today, and how ChatGPT is already changing the playing field forever. * This session description was not written by ChatGPT.
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Today, many organizations have brought the Intranet, or the digital hub of their digital workplace, into Microsoft Teams via Viva Connections. But what else are organizations doing to enhance further, improve upon, and embrace Teams as a hub for not just teamwork, but also corporate communication, social collaboration, networking, and more?
Join Microsoft MVP and 2toLead CTO Richard Harbridge as he shares the unique opportunity Teams apps and solutions provide. Be prepared to explore examples, patterns, and practices for how lines of business in any organization can leverage, extend and integrate Teams to create business-oriented solutions.
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85% of leaders say the shift to hybrid work has made it challenging to have confidence that employees are productive. 92% of employees have identified enhancing the employee experience as an essential priority.New challenges are always presented to HR from all sides, and we’re here to help you target critical areas of the employee experience at our free event.Whether you’re looking for strategic guidance or help to achieve technical excellence, our event is full of sessions from world-renowned thought leaders.On February 10th, from 10 AM to 4 PM, learn to avoid new and old challenges, build on existing success, and leverage the latest technology to facilitate your efforts. One lucky winner will walk away with a free $15,000 POC!2toLead CTO and 7X Microsoft MVP Richard Harbridge and 2toLead CEO and 13X Microsoft MVP Kanwal Khipple will lead the event.Together, they helped over 200 digital workplaces globally, plan for and increase the employee experience, keynoted conferences, published books, and published blogs for some major publications like Forbes.Join specialized sessions (business or deep dive tech breakouts) designed for HR leaders or the technical team that supports the digital employee experience.The business and general sessions aim to provide insight into the apparent and hidden value of tackling onboarding, retention, and well-being.The optional tech deep dive breakout sessions aims to walk through how to use and implement Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Viva to improve onboarding, retention, and well-being.Walk away from the event with a greater understanding of the following:- How to identify the most critical areas of the employee experience- How to improve the onboarding experience before and during the process- Building experiences to enable better onboarding- Measure for success- Creating digital employee experiences that help retain top talent- How to track employee well-being- And much more
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Tackling Employee Experience Today As We Embrace The Future Workplace - M365TORichard Harbridge
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The future workplace needs to take into account how the employee experience landscape is changing and the importance of digital experiences throughout the employee journey. The employee experience journey starts before the employee is hired and lasts after they depart. Focusing on the employee experience can feel like a daunting task when reviewing the many different stages of an employee’s journey, but we know understanding and improving these stages can lead to a much more positive employee experience, and maximize the retention, impact, engagement, and performance of the employee.
Tackling Employee Experience Today As We Embrace The Future WorkplaceRichard Harbridge
The future workplace needs to take into account how the employee experience landscape is changing and the importance of digital experiences throughout the employee journey. The employee experience journey starts before the employee is hired and lasts after they depart. Focusing on the employee experience can feel like a daunting task when reviewing the many different stages of an employee’s journey, but we know understanding and improving these stages can lead to a much more positive employee experience, and maximize the retention, impact, engagement, and performance of the employee.
Future-proof your Microsoft 365 & Teams provisioning strategyRichard Harbridge
Want to enable self-service to foster a collaborative environment in your organization, but are prevented by internal risk management policies?
What if there was a way to combine the best of both worlds? Collaborate with end users while keeping your sensitive data under wraps and your environment organized.
In this session, Microsoft MVP Richard Harbridge will take you through the foundations of effective provisioning in Microsoft 365 and Teams – and what controls to put in place to keep your data secure.
Get up to speed on M365 and Teams provisioning best practices:
Understand provisioning for better collaboration within the Microsoft 365 architecture
Common pain points facing IT managers and admins – and solutions
Tips for empowering users while maintaining a secure and productive environment
Strategies and recommendations for custom vs. Microsoft out-of-the-box provisioning
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• Solutions to tackle Microsoft Teams & SharePoint Sites sprawl.
• Best practices to get more from Microsoft Teams & SharePoint.
• Real-world guidance on out-of-the-box solutions and custom approaches.
• How Microsoft 365 can improve experiences, management and organizational outcomes.
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
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Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
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Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
Let's dive deeper into the world of ODC! Ricardo Alves (OutSystems) will join us to tell all about the new Data Fabric. After that, Sezen de Bruijn (OutSystems) will get into the details on how to best design a sturdy architecture within ODC.
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Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
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The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
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Getting The Most Out Of Microsoft 365 Employee Experience Today & Tomorrow SHIFT HAPPENS
1. Getting The Most
Out Of The
Microsoft 365
Employee
Experience
Wednesday, October. 11, 2023 1:10 PM (EST)
Richard Harbridge
CTO @2toLead & Microsoft MVP
2. How Do We Get There? Envision Your Roadmap
Individual Group
Interviews
Requirements
Defined
Aggregated
Employee Needs
Review
Roadmap
Defined
Requirements
Prioritized
Following the review and finalization of Employee Needs, requirements would be prioritized and
confirmed. These requirements (often in the form of user stories) are then grouped with
related needs into recommended initiatives that could be sequenced over time. Finally,
existing in-flight organizational initiatives are integrated into the timeline.
3. You will love the way we work. Together. ™
How the roadmap is broken down into categories
Roadmap Streams
Facilitate Governance & Responsibly Empower
Absorb complexity into management, align with policies, simplify compliance, security and performance.
Establish An Effective Foundation
Foundational and important work from strategy to architecture that is necessary for continued digital workplace success.
Migrate & Modernize
Move away from legacy systems into long-term, supported, and more integrated experiences.
Foster Collaboration, Connection & Engagement
Make it easy and efficient for employees to onboard, teams to work together, from anywhere, to gain insights on
what is important and feel included.
Improve Communication, Navigation & Search
Provide more effective ways to communicate, reduce noise, feel informed, engaged and get their core tasks done
with increased efficiency.
4. You will love the way we work. Together. ™
PHASE 1 - Modernize
0-6 months
PHASE 2 – Connect & Integrate
6-12 months
PHASE 3 – Intelligent & Automated
12-24 months
A summary of the initiatives planned over the next 24 months
Employee Experience Roadmap Sample
Digital Workplace
Strategy & Roadmap
Modern Navigation
(Custom Header & Footer)
Employee Preboarding
Portal(s)
Migrate & Develop
Intranet Content
Establish Digital
Workplace Backlog
Intranet Site, Page &
Team Template Design
Intranet Governance
Design & Planning
Viva Engage Premium Pilot
(For Leaders)
LEGEND
Foster Collaboration,
Connection & Engagement
Improve Communication,
Navigation & Search
Migrate
& Modernize
Establish An
Effective Foundation
Facilitate Governance
& Responsibly Empower
Viva Amplify Pilot
(For Leaders)
Employee Onboarding
Organization Portal(s)
Employee Onboarding
Departmental Site(s)
Digital Workplace
Directory (Release 1)
Digital Workplace
Directory (Release 2)
Viva Pulse Pilot
(For Leaders)
Viva Amplify Rolling Pilots
(For Everyone)
Targeted Search Experience
& Search Refiners
Intranet Navigation
& Search Design
Intranet Integration
& Solution Design
Intranet Content Design
& Migration Planning
Build Of Sites, Pages,
Teams & IA
Automating & Improving Onboarding,
Transfers & Offboarding Solution(s) (Release 1)
Viva Topics Pilot
(For Curators)
Bring Knowledge To Users In The Context
Of Their Work (Topics Broader Rollout)
Enhanced Intranet
Insights (Release 1)
My Links, Alerts &
Subscriptions (Release 1)
Digital Center Of
Excellence (Release 1)
Digital Center Of
Excellence (Release 2)
Targeted Viva
Learning (Pilot)
Viva Connections & Modern Intranet Launch
5. The Employee Experience Environments
Jacob Morgan in “The Employee Experience Advantage” suggests three environments that support and reinforce each
other. With the shift driven by Hybrid Work, it has pushed greater weight on cultural and technological environments.
The feeling employees
get working for your
organization
The actual spaces in
which employees
work
The tools
employees use to
get their jobs done
6. The Employee Experience Environments
The way we see digital employee experience at 2toLead is based on 3 primary areas of investment.
7. Employee Communication Experience: Technology Trends
Employee communication focuses on the technologies that improve the employee communication
technology experience. Let’s start by exploring the trends around key technology here.
8. Intranet Evolution & Transformation
Arguably the Intranet has undergone a few major transformations. Are we in the midst of another major
transformation? How impactful is the change that Microsoft Teams, Loop and Viva have on Intranets?
Intranet 0.1
•Portals
•Links
•Simple News
•Technical To Update
Intranets 1.0
•Search
•More Content
•Services
•Audience Targeting
•Updatable By
Business
Intranets 2.0
•Enterprise Social
•Engagement 1.0
•Personalization
•Mobile
•Digital Workplace
Intranets 3.0?
•Engagement 2.0?
•AI Powered & More
Intelligent?
•More Dynamic?
•Richer Integration?
•Where You Work?
15. Viva Connections Dashboard
Leverage 1st party and 3rd party supported integrations with popular industry leaders.
Examples Of Underused Cards:
- News Card
- Search Template Card
- Forms Card
- PowerApps Card
- Field Services Card
- People Search Card
20. You will love the way we work. Together. ™
Contextualized navigation and discovery based on where and how users work benefiting from
cloud scale AI, digital behavior capture & continual content analysis.
Improved Knowledge With Viva Topics
In emails, instant messages,
team messages, pages, news,
documents and more… the
knowledge, people, digital
spaces, and more are
available in context.
21. You will love the way we work. Together. ™
Contextualized insights based on the topic discovery that includes people, resources, sites,
communities and more can improve our curated assets and support our extended team of content
leads and departmental stakeholders.
Source More Insight With Viva Topics
Content leaders can
leverage the insights
provided by Viva Topics by
rationalizing them with
curated resources to
improve them.
Does that product site
internally have
links/connections to the
people, resources and sites
suggested by topics?
22. You will love the way we work. Together. ™
Employee communication focuses on the technologies that improve the employee communication
technology experience. Let’s start by exploring the trends around key technology here.
Employee Communication Experience: Technology Trends
23. You will love the way we work. Together. ™
Communication Is Changing
How do we communicate more effectively? Especially as we think about the enterprise channels
and employee experience landscape that exists today?
Intranet
•Boosted Until
•Personalization
•Targeting
•Content Mixture
Email
•Newsletters
•Priority Messages
•Personalized
Integration
Social / Engage
•Polls
•Q&A (Bots later)
•Storylines
Teams / Slack
•Targeted Individuals
•Targeted
Channels/Teams
Knowledge Tools
•Search Optimization
•Associated Topics
•“Books” Of Content
•Videos Of Popular
Content
Goals / Learning
•OKR Connection &
Alignment
•Learning Resource
Profiles, Work Modes, Mobile & Digital Excellence
24. Improve Communications
Microsoft Viva Amplify further helps bring capabilities that help collaborate, coordinate,
distribute, measure and manage communication campaigns.
25. Improve Communications
Microsoft Viva Amplify further helps bring capabilities that help collaborate, coordinate,
distribute, measure and manage communication campaigns.
26. Improve Communications
Microsoft Viva Amplify further helps bring capabilities that help collaborate, coordinate,
distribute, measure and manage communication campaigns.
27. Improve Communications
Microsoft Viva Amplify further helps bring capabilities that help collaborate, coordinate,
distribute, measure and manage communication campaigns.
28. Improve Employee Connection
Microsoft Viva Engage Storylines enables us to have an experience that is easy to use, creates
deeper connection, and allows for easier sharing of experiences.
29. Improve Employee Connection
Microsoft Viva Engage Storylines enables us to have an experience that is easy to use,
creates deeper connection, and allows for easier sharing of experiences.
30. Improve Employee Connection
Microsoft Viva Engage Storylines enables us to have an experience that is easy to use, creates
deeper connection, and allows for easier sharing of experiences.
31. Improve Employee Connection
Microsoft Viva Engage Leadership Corner enables us to have an experience that is easy to use,
creates deeper connection, and allows for easier sharing of experiences for leaders.
32. Improve Employee Connection
Microsoft Viva Engage Leadership Corner enables us to have an experience that is easy to use,
creates deeper connection, and allows for easier sharing of experiences for leaders.
33. Improve Employee Connection
Microsoft Viva Engage Leadership Corner enables us to have an experience that is easy to use,
creates deeper connection, and allows for easier sharing of experiences for leaders.
34. Automation For Everyone
While we can use AI to generate posts, we can also use the leader system in Viva
Engage to publish announcements out to multiple channels as an example.
35. You will love the way we work. Together. ™
Employee communication focuses on the technologies that improve the employee communication
technology experience. Let’s start by exploring the trends around key technology here.
Employee Communication Experience: Technology Trends
36. You will love the way we work. Together. ™
Employee communication focuses on the technologies that improve the employee communication
technology experience. Let’s start by exploring the trends around key technology here.
Employee Communication Experience: Technology Trends
37. Using Copilot With SharePoint Leads To Better Experiences
When combined together humans and AI can lead to not just faster and more skilled
generation of content through collaboration with AI, but better quality results.
38. Using Copilot With Viva Engage Leads To Better Experiences
With Viva Engage you can help inspire and aid leaders to connect with their employees more
effectively through assistive prompts, inclusive communications, and valuable insights.
39. The best communication is intelligent
and engages employees where they are
by being integrated into the digital
spaces they work.
40. You will love the way we work. Together. ™
Employee communication focuses on the technologies that improve the employee communication
technology experience. Let’s start by exploring the trends around key technology here.
Employee Communication Experience: Technology Trends
41. You will love the way we work. Together. ™
The way we see digital employee experience at 2toLead is based on 3 primary areas of investment.
Employee Collaboration Experience: Technology Trends
42. You will love the way we work. Together. ™
The way we see digital employee experience at 2toLead is based on 3 primary areas of investment.
Employee Collaboration Experience: Technology Trends
43. You will love the way we work. Together. ™
Some industry leaders have concerns about the increased risk of data leakage and more as
collaboration volume increases along with velocity and variety.
Compliance & Security Versus Collaboration?
Compliance
Collaboration
86% of executives believe the risk of
a data breach is higher with
remote employees
1 in 3 businesses have suffered a data
breach in the past 12 months
due to remote work
44. You will love the way we work. Together. ™
Some industry leaders have concerns about the increased risk of data leakage and more as
collaboration volume increases along with velocity and variety.
Compliance & Security Versus Collaboration?
Compliance
Collaboration
45. You will love the way we work. Together. ™
Some industry leaders have concerns about the increased risk of data leakage and more as
collaboration volume increases along with velocity and variety.
Compliance & Security Versus Collaboration?
Compliance
Collaboration
Compliant
Collaboration
46. You will love the way we work. Together. ™
The problem isn’t a relationship between these things. It’s that many organizations as volume, velocity
and variety increase so do the tools they use.
Do We Have The Right Tools?
More than
90% of enterprise customers
have a multi-cloud strategy
47. You will love the way we work. Together. ™
The problem isn’t a relationship between these things. It’s that many organizations as volume, velocity
and variety increase so do the tools they use.
Do We Have Too Many Tools?
More than
90% of enterprise customers
have a multi-cloud strategy
48. The Desired State Is Highly Integrated
As you consolidate (where possible) you gain the benefit of a richly integrated suite of digital workplace or
digital employee experience tools. An experience that will continue to be further integrated over time.
Desired State
Often The Reality
49. Can We Connect Clouds More?
Many organizations are surprised at how many ways they can integrate, enhance and enrich Microsoft 365
with data or connections with other systems via Microsoft Search, Power Platform, Teams, & More.
50. You will love the way we work. Together. ™
It’s not just about Teams being the place where users work with others internally in Microsoft 365, it’s
also about how they will use Teams across marketplace tools over time.
Teams As A Platform Works Both Ways
1900+
apps and
counting
51. You will love the way we work. Together. ™
There is a comprehensive strategy from the architecture level to the experience level that is responsible for
why Microsoft 365 scales collaboration, compliance and security across applications and solutions.
Collaborative Applications by Design
Legacy
Applications
High
Maintenance
Cost
Lower
Performance
Technical
Limitation
Worse &
Disconnected
User
Experience
Modern
Applications
More Efficient
With Lower
Maintenance
Cost
High
Performance &
More Scalable
More Secure &
More
Manageable
Better & More
Integrated User
Experiences
Microsoft Collaborative Apps
Device OS
UX Microsoft Teams Microsoft Office
Components Fluid Framework • Adaptive Cards • Connectors
Logic Azure PaaS Power Platform
Data Microsoft Graph Microsoft Dataverse
Communications Azure Communications Services
Identity Azure Active Directory
Pro-dev Low/no code
52. You will love the way we work. Together. ™
At one point in time being able to collaborate effectively anywhere, at any time and on any device
was a bold ambition. Microsoft and vendors have long since realized this, but it has a cost.
Anywhere, Anytime & On Any Device
Work
Life
Collaboration
Overload
People spend 80% of their
time collaborating, find
44% of meeting time
unproductive
Note: Collaboration Occurs Before,
During & After Meetings!
53. You will love the way we work. Together. ™
Most of the dissatisfaction in
meetings comes from not
collaborating enough before
it, after it, or in a different
way during it. Meetings are
important but they are often
overused and used poorly.
Today Microsoft not only matches this need with great experiences but even adds intelligence to
those experiences to improve collaboration further whether for the individual, team or org.
Anywhere, Anytime & On Any Device
Collaboration
Overload
People spend 80% of their
time collaborating, find
44% of meeting time
unproductive
Note: Collaboration Occurs Before,
During & After Meetings!
54.
55.
56. You will love the way we work. Together. ™
In addition to providing behavioral, qualitative, and quantitative data to improve meeting effectiveness,
data-driven recommendations in Viva Insights can be based on meeting effectiveness surveys.
Making Meetings Better (After The Meeting)
57.
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61.
62. You will love the way we work. Together. ™
It’s important to modernize how you approach, plan and support collaboration so that when
further changes come your organization is resilient and ready enough to take advantage of them.
Collaboration Will Continue To Change
63. You will love the way we work. Together. ™
The way we see digital employee experience at 2toLead is based on 3 primary areas of investment.
Employee Collaboration Experience: Technology Trends
64. You will love the way we work. Together. ™
The way we see digital employee experience at 2toLead is based on 3 primary areas of investment.
Employee Collaboration Experience: Technology Trends
65. In essence the whole is greater than the sum of it’s parts. This is because other people’s capabilities
amplify our own and together, we deliver higher quality and better results when we collaborate.
Before Collaboration Might Have Been 1 + 1 = 3
66. You will love the way we work. Together. ™
1 + 1 = 3
AI x (1 x AI + 1 x AI) = Exponential Value
The way AI works is it gives each person their own contextualized and personalized collaborator,
one that has access to an incredible number of skills, information, and processing capability.
Collaboration With AI & Each Other Leads To Exponential Value
67. You will love the way we work. Together. ™
The distribution of collaborative work is often extremely lopsided. In most cases, 20% to 35% of
value-added collaborations come from only 3% to 5% of employees.
The Few Over the Many?
68. The best collaboration experience is
intelligent, compliant by design and
integrated into the digital spaces we
already work in.
69. You will love the way we work. Together. ™
The way we see digital employee experience at 2toLead is based on 3 primary areas of investment.
Employee Collaboration Experience: Technology Trends
70. You will love the way we work. Together. ™
The way we see digital employee experience at 2toLead is based on 3 primary areas of investment.
Employee Management Experience: Technology Trends
71. You will love the way we work. Together. ™
The way we see digital employee experience at 2toLead is based on 3 primary areas of investment.
Employee Management Experience: Technology Trends
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The way we see digital employee experience at 2toLead is based on 3 primary areas of investment.
107. Success With AI & Management Is About Collaborating With AI
It can start from a simple place of catching up or aggregating the information you need, but then
you can take that further and use copilot to begin actioning it. Automating a set of activities.
108. The best management experience is
intelligent, pro-active and integrated
into the digital ways we work.
109. Employee Management Experience: Technology Trends
The way we see digital employee experience at 2toLead is based on 3 primary areas of investment.
110. You will love the way we work. Together. ™
PHASE 1 - Modernize
0-6 months
PHASE 2 – Connect & Integrate
6-12 months
PHASE 3 – Intelligent & Automated
12-24 months
A summary of the initiatives planned over the next 24 months
Employee Experience Roadmap Sample
Digital Workplace
Strategy & Roadmap
Modern Navigation
(Custom Header & Footer)
Employee Preboarding
Portal(s)
Migrate & Develop
Intranet Content
Establish Digital
Workplace Backlog
Intranet Site, Page &
Team Template Design
Intranet Governance
Design & Planning
Viva Engage Premium Pilot
(For Leaders)
LEGEND
Foster Collaboration,
Connection & Engagement
Improve Communication,
Navigation & Search
Migrate
& Modernize
Establish An
Effective Foundation
Facilitate Governance
& Responsibly Empower
Viva Amplify Pilot
(For Leaders)
Employee Onboarding
Organization Portal(s)
Employee Onboarding
Departmental Site(s)
Digital Workplace
Directory (Release 1)
Digital Workplace
Directory (Release 2)
Viva Pulse Pilot
(For Leaders)
Viva Amplify Rolling Pilots
(For Everyone)
Targeted Search Experience
& Search Refiners
Intranet Navigation
& Search Design
Intranet Integration
& Solution Design
Intranet Content Design
& Migration Planning
Build Of Sites, Pages,
Teams & IA
Automating & Improving Onboarding,
Transfers & Offboarding Solution(s) (Release 1)
Viva Topics Pilot
(For Curators)
Bring Knowledge To Users In The Context
Of Their Work (Topics Broader Rollout)
Enhanced Intranet
Insights (Release 1)
My Links, Alerts &
Subscriptions (Release 1)
Digital Center Of
Excellence (Release 1)
Digital Center Of
Excellence (Release 2)
Targeted Viva
Learning (Pilot)
Viva Connections & Modern Intranet Launch
111. You will love the way we work. Together. ™
Download our free
80+ page whitepaper
Transform your Employee Experience
at every stage with Microsoft 365
and Microsoft Viva!
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112. Let’s connect and find ways to do more and work together.
Message me on LinkedIn or email Richard@2toLead.com
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