New technologies are changing the way people work with each other, their organization’s partners, and their customers. Employee expectations have grown and are being met by innovation that delivers greater accessibility, lower costs, and faster results. The catch? Organizations and employees need to understand, adopt, and use these technologies or risk being outpaced by new competitors or changes in the marketplace.
Join Richard Harbridge in an insightful discussion as he explores why collaboration can be challenging in organizations today, what we can do about it together.
THE FUTURE OF COLLABORATION NEEDS YOUR HELP (MICROSOFT 365 COLLABORATION CONFERENCE)
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THE FUTURE OF COLLABORATION NEEDS YOUR HELP
Richard Harbridge
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4. TECHNOLOGY IS
CHANGING HOW
WE WORK…
“Good, bad or indifferent, if you are not investing in
new technology, you are going to be left behind.”
- Philip Green
5. ANYWHERE…
When workers are distributed, synchronous communication becomes more
difficult. We need to get more comfortable with asynchronous communication.
6. ANYTIME…
A recent survey found that 75% of people have experienced burnout at work with 40% saying
they’ve felt it during the pandemic specifically.
Blurred
boundaries
40% of people report
work disrupts
personal/family time at
least weekly
7. ON ANY DEVICE…
Working from a mobile device is expected by employees today. With more
emphasis the productivity gap. 1B+ Downloads of MSFT Apps (on just Android).
8. WITH MORE PEOPLE…
We work with more people on a day-to-day basis today than ever before.
This continues to accelerate, especially during COVID times when remote work is more critical.
60% of employees report working with 10
or more people on a day-to-day basis.
Half of these employees
work with more than 20.
9. AND MORE FREQUENTLY…
People spend 80% of their time collaborating. However, 44% of meeting time is seen as
unproductive. There are stark differences between effective and ineffective collaboration.
Collaboration
overload
People spend 80% of their
time collaborating, find
44% of meeting time
unproductive
10. INSIDE & OUTSIDE OF THE ORGANIZATION…
We also work with contractors, customers or partners more. Collaborating with external
parties is accelerating as are expectations around collaboration.
11. WE NEED MORE FOCUS TIME…
Setting aside regular blocks of time to focus on challenging work can have massive
benefits. However, only 32% of knowledge workers set aside time daily for deep, focused work.
Continuous
interruptions
People switch tasks every
40 seconds, take 25+
minutes to refocus after
interruptions
12. BUT WITH A LIMITED NETWORK…
42% of IWs rarely meet new people at their company; when they do meet new people, it’s most
often through a formal or informal company event. Managers rarely make those connections.
Limited
network
42% of IWs rarely meet
new people at their
company, managers rarely
make those connections
13. WHILE CAPTURING & SHARING MORE…
Employees may see the extra work of sharing as a “tax” and balk at the
extremely high level of transparency necessary for an organization to thrive.
14. ARE YOU READY FOR TODAY’S DEMANDS?
What about tomorrows demands? Are you ready for those?
15. CATCH UP AND DON’T FALL BEHIND…
It will be more and more challenging to meet expectations on legacy technology. We don’t
need old solutions and technology we need modern technology for modern collaboration.
16. TECHNOLOGY IS CHANGING
HOW WE WORK…
Why is work changing? That change is being
driven by changes in our industry, innovations
in technology, and our organization’s ability
to meet today’s difficult demands.
19. CHANGE DOESN’T HAPPEN ON ITS OWN…
We need to improve digital excellence and digital collaboration. However, even when people
have the tools, vision, and an understanding of the risks they often will struggle to change.
20. CHANGING HOW WE WORK TAKES TIME…
Your success is measured by long term sustained user adoption and a continuous reduction of
bad collaboration behaviors.
21. CLOUD SERVICES ARE IN CONSTANT CHANGE…
Just as your organization, users and digital patterns of work should be to remain competitive.
22. DEPLOYMENT ALONE ISN’T ENOUGH…
Proper deployment is CRITICAL to success, but it’s not enough on its own.
Lack of expertise is still the most consistent cited issue in organizations for improving collaboration.
23. WE ALL BENEFIT WHEN MORE OF US USE…
The more people use the platform the more value the technology provides. Think of how
many aspects of Microsoft 365 get smarter and better the more we all use it.
24. MICROSOFT 365 HAS RICH ANALYTICS…
This is core for technical teams to take leadership on. It is our responsibility to help drive
intelligent digital excellence and changes in digital patterns in our organizations.
25. MICROSOFT 365 HAS RICH ANALYTICS…
This is core for technical teams to take leadership on. It is our responsibility to help drive
intelligent digital excellence and changes in digital patterns in our organizations.
26. MICROSOFT 365 HAS RICH ANALYTICS…
This is core for technical teams to take leadership on. It is our responsibility to help drive
intelligent digital excellence and changes in digital patterns in our organizations.
27. MICROSOFT 365 HAS RICH ANALYTICS…
This is core for technical teams to take leadership on. It is our responsibility to help drive
intelligent digital excellence and changes in digital patterns in our organizations.
28. MICROSOFT 365 HAS RICH ANALYTICS…
End users can leverage MyAnalytics & organization leaders can leverage Workplace Analytics.
What’s more Insights intelligently brings these to users in the Teams Experience.
MyAnalytics Workplace Analytics
Aggregate insights on how your company works
Show how collaboration impacts business outcomes
Drive culture change with data and flexible analysis
Personal, productivity insights in Microsoft 365
Improve focus, wellbeing, network and collaboration
Work smarter in the flow of your work
29. MICROSOFT 365 HAS RICH ANALYTICS…
End users can leverage MyAnalytics & organization leaders can leverage Workplace Analytics.
What’s more Insights intelligently brings these to users in the Teams Experience.
30. MICROSOFT 365 HAS RICH ANALYTICS…
End users can leverage MyAnalytics & organization leaders can leverage Workplace Analytics.
What’s more Insights intelligently brings these to users in the Teams Experience.
31. MICROSOFT 365 HAS RICH ANALYTICS…
End users can leverage MyAnalytics & organization leaders can leverage Workplace Analytics.
What’s more Insights intelligently brings these to users in the Teams Experience.
32. MICROSOFT 365 HAS RICH ANALYTICS…
End users can leverage MyAnalytics & organization leaders can leverage Workplace Analytics.
What’s more Insights intelligently brings these to users in the Teams Experience.
33. MICROSOFT 365 HAS RICH ANALYTICS…
End users can leverage MyAnalytics & organization leaders can leverage Workplace Analytics.
What’s more Insights intelligently brings these to users in the Teams Experience.
34. MICROSOFT 365 HAS RICH ANALYTICS…
End users can leverage MyAnalytics & organization leaders can leverage Workplace Analytics.
What’s more Insights intelligently brings these to users in the Teams Experience.
35. MICROSOFT 365 HAS RICH ANALYTICS…
End users can leverage MyAnalytics & organization leaders can leverage Workplace Analytics.
What’s more Insights intelligently brings these to users in the Teams Experience.
36. MICROSOFT 365 HAS RICH ANALYTICS…
End users can leverage MyAnalytics & organization leaders can leverage Workplace Analytics.
What’s more Insights intelligently brings these to users in the Teams Experience.
37. MICROSOFT 365 HAS RICH ANALYTICS…
End users can leverage MyAnalytics & organization leaders can leverage Workplace Analytics.
What’s more Insights intelligently brings these to users in the Teams Experience.
38. MICROSOFT 365 HAS RICH ANALYTICS…
End users can leverage MyAnalytics & organization leaders can leverage Workplace Analytics.
What’s more Insights intelligently brings these to users in the Teams Experience.
39. MICROSOFT 365 HAS RICH ANALYTICS…
End users can leverage MyAnalytics & organization leaders can leverage Workplace Analytics.
What’s more Insights intelligently brings these to users in the Teams Experience.
40. LEARN FROM HOW YOU WORK…
By leveraging insights from MyAnalytics you can also learn more about your meeting habits.
How many calendar invitations do you send last minute? How many do you accept?
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45. LEARN FROM HOW YOU WORK…
By leveraging insights from Workplace Analytics you can drive key changes in the organization
based on industry best practices and approaches based on rich insight in your org.
46. ORG INSIGHTS ARE CRITICAL RIGHT NOW…
Understand and action insights on how people collaborate and spend their time. Shift from a
digital reactive organizational model to a pro-active and empowering one.
47. ORG INSIGHTS ARE CRITICAL RIGHT NOW…
Understand and action insights on how people collaborate and spend their time. Shift from a
digital reactive organizational model to a pro-active and empowering one.
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54. UPLOAD ORGANIZATIONAL DATA…
Organizational data is information about employees that your company provides to
Workplace Analytics through uploads of organizational (HR) data.
Without Organizational Data…
55. UPLOAD ORGANIZATIONAL DATA…
Organizational data is information about employees that your company provides to
Workplace Analytics through uploads of organizational (HR) data.
With Organizational Data!
56. UPLOAD ORGANIZATIONAL DATA…
Organizational data is information about employees that your company provides to
Workplace Analytics through uploads of organizational (HR) data.
With Organizational Data!
57. UPLOAD ORGANIZATIONAL DATA…
Organizational data is information about employees that your company provides to
Workplace Analytics through uploads of organizational (HR) data.
58. UPLOAD ORGANIZATIONAL DATA…
Organizational data is information about employees that your company provides to
Workplace Analytics through uploads of organizational (HR) data.
59. UPLOAD ORGANIZATIONAL DATA…
Organizational data is information about employees that your company provides to
Workplace Analytics through uploads of organizational (HR) data.
To view a list of the top 500 values
for an attribute and other details
about it, select the attribute's name
in the list. For example, the
following graphic shows the top
values and details for Region.
60. WHAT ORG DATA MIGHT INCLUDE…
Organizational data is information about employees that your company provides to
Workplace Analytics through uploads of organizational (HR) data.
61. WHAT ORG DATA MIGHT INCLUDE…
Organizational data is information about employees that your company provides to
Workplace Analytics through uploads of organizational (HR) data.
62. WHAT ORG DATA MIGHT INCLUDE…
Organizational data is information about employees that your company provides to
Workplace Analytics through uploads of organizational (HR) data.
63. WHAT ORG DATA MIGHT INCLUDE…
Organizational data is information about employees that your company provides to
Workplace Analytics through uploads of organizational (HR) data.
64. WHAT ORG DATA MIGHT INCLUDE…
Organizational data is information about employees that your company provides to
Workplace Analytics through uploads of organizational (HR) data.
65. THE POWER OF A PLANNED APPROACH…
As a first pass digging into this data and building out advanced reports and analysis is
extremely valuable and often extremely actionable.
66. THE POWER OF A PLANNED APPROACH …
The actual actioning of your improvement plans, nudge plans or more has tooling built in and
you can use the measures to track impact easily.
67. THE POWER OF A PLANNED APPROACH …
The actual actioning of your improvement plans, nudge plans or more has tooling built in and
you can use the measures to track impact easily.
68. THE POWER OF A PLANNED APPROACH …
The actual actioning of your improvement plans, nudge plans or more has tooling built in and
you can use the measures to track impact easily.
69. HOW IS OUR
WORK
CHANGING?
Do you work the same way? Are you keeping up
with the technology and better ways of
collaborating? Are your peers and org? Why not?
71. WE NEED BETTER
ADOPTION…
“What we find is that if you have a goal that is very,
very far out, and you approach it in little steps, you
start to get there faster.”
- Mae Jemison
72. @RHARBRIDGE
WHAT ELSE CAN I
(AS ONE PERSON) DO?
It can be really hard to find ‘actionable’ ideas or things you can do…
73. While we certainly made things better to improve collaboration it takes more…
REMEMBERTHIS?HOWWE
CONDUCTMEETINGS…
74. The way we manage meetings, the way we collaborate in meetings has always
been something that we could improve and now we must improve it.
75. This new form of meetings can be better than the way they worked in the past.
This can compliment in person meetings and isn’t just for remote meetings.
76. BEFORE THE MEETING EVEN STARTS…
We now use meeting polls more regularly or advanced scheduling support between Outlook and
Find Time features that auto suggest intuitively the best dates/times.
77. DIAL IN IS NOT THE DEFAULT NOW…
While it’s your backup or emergency for a growing majority of users they have transitioned to
desktop, laptop or mobile meeting experiences where dial in is only used in certain circumstances.
78. HOW WILL YOU BE PRESENT TODAY?
Let’s start with the core of a meeting experience. You attend a meeting. When you join you
need to decide whether this will be a video supported call or not.
79. IF YOU AREN’T TALKING USE MUTE…
While it can be painful learning to remember to unmute yourself it is a lot better than
distracting others with breathing, typing, movement or background noise.
It’s okay to mute someone!
Just @mention them and
let them know.
80. RECOGNIZE & USE RAISED HANDS…
One of the most challenging things in virtual meetings is interrupting or acknowledging you
have something to say. Even if you write it in the side discussion it can be useful to action it.
Especially Useful In
Larger Meetings
81. VISUAL NOTE TAKING IS IMPORTANT…
When conducting any meeting there should never be a blank screen (if it’s not about eye contact).
Use PowerPoint, OneNote, Word, or an open Email. Take notes as people talk and facilitate.
When running meetings
- Share notes
- Take notes interactively
82. VISUAL NOTE TAKING IS IMPORTANT…
Shared notes are even better so everyone can add to them interactively as the meeting
proceeds instead of just a facilitator.
83. WHERE DO MEETING NOTES GO?
You have two approaches for taking and managing meeting notes OneNote or Notes/Wiki
(beyond email or structured word docs and other more formal/informal methods).
84. USE THAT MESSAGING SPACE…
Anytime someone mentions a resource or something try and create a quick link for everyone
on the call. These really help others find things that are being discussed and encourages Q&A.
Don’t underestimate the value of simple reactions. They can acknowledge and communicate a lot with very little effort.
As an example Miguel during a discussion asked to be a search curator for our Microsoft 365 tenant. By thumbing this up
he saw a notification which acted as a marked as read/agreed acknowledgement from me at the time.
85. SOMETIMES CAPTIONS HELP…
Even if you aren’t recording you can use them (they are deleted after). This is extremely useful
for those who are in noisy environments or who don’t have audio privacy.
86. FOCUS & ZOOM TO SAVE YOUR EYES…
You can ‘zoom’ or “focus on” the content and remove the video/indicator bar at the bottom.
87. ASK & RECORD AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE…
There is no risk if you agreed to record it since most teams are private and even 1:1 calls when
recorded are only for the individuals who took part. This can be extremely useful in the future.
88. TIME SHIFTING IS VALUABLE…
Take advantage of watching recordings at faster speeds, skipping content not relevant to you, or
using the transcript to navigate and save yourself time on many meetings you missed.
89. THE POWER OF A LINK OR @MENTION…
When you send out resources or information after a meeting you can do this in Teams with
@mentions and more – and that works in Outlook emails as well.
90. BROADER SHARING OF RESOURCES…
When you send out resources or information after a meeting you can store it in more broadly
accessible places and then share it across various Teams to help more people be aware.
91. BROADER QUESTIONS & ANSWERS…
Yammer
Amplification
Q&As
New
Connections
While Microsoft Teams can be great often you may have questions or want to broadcast more
broadly. This is where Yammer can come into play and really help.
92. TRY NARRATING YOUR WORK…
Sometimes the most value social can provide is visibility and connection.
93. IF SOMEONE ASKS YOU A QUESTION…
What if you answered via Yammer? What if you answered with a search Q&A?
We let employees submit Q&As and bookmarks for search consideration – you should too!
94. CO-AUTHORING & EDITING TOGETHER…
Get used to working with that auto save button on in the top left and know that it’s okay to
work on files together. This can save a ton of time collating and consolidating.
95. LEARN FROM HOW YOU WORK…
By leveraging insights from MyAnalytics you can also learn more about your meeting habits.
How many calendar invitations do you send last minute? How many do you accept?
96. WE CAN BETTER TACKLE ADOPTION…
Not only with the organization leading but even individual users leading their digital
improvement and excellence via tooling like MyAnalytics and Insights.
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10%
15%
20%
25%
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Self-learning is largely ineffective, but currently
part of learning process for many
Learning via Co-Workers
is among the most
effective and most used
methods
These methods are under-
utilized (low usage, but have
high effectiveness)
Percent Using Learning Method vs. Helpfulness
COACH OTHERS & FIND CHAMPIONS…
Learning via Co-Workers is the most effective and most used method for learning.
98. ADOPTION & CONTINUAL CHANGE…
In order for users to improve their digital skills and technology use we need them
to embrace and commit to change, continuously. It’s about more than training.
1
3
Drive Interest/Awareness
Guide Understanding
Realize Value
2
99. PLANNING FOR ADOPTION…
We need to be more tactical and granular to drive meaningful commitment.
Plan and execute adoption campaigns! http://Office365Campaigns.com
100. “SO WHAT” OR CONTEXT MATTERS A LOT…
Throughout the demo ask – “So what” – why is this important? This makes a huge difference.
101. WE NEED BETTER
ADOPTION…
There is no secret sauce. Change and adoption
takes planning, and continuous effort and
investment (at an organizational level and a
personal level). So why not start now?
New technologies are changing the way people work with each other, their organization’s partners, and their customers. Employee expectations have grown and are being met by innovation that delivers greater accessibility, lower costs, and faster results. The catch? Organizations and employees need to understand, adopt, and use these technologies or risk being outpaced by new competitors or changes in the marketplace.Join Richard Harbridge in an insightful discussion as he explores why collaboration can be challenging in organizations today, what we can do about it together.
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Richard Harbridge is the Chief Technology Officer and an owner at 2toLead. Richard works as a trusted advisor with hundreds of organizations, helping them understand their current needs, their Soon needs, and what actions they should take in order to grow and achieve their bold ambitions.
Richard remains hands on in his work and has led, architected, and implemented hundreds of business and technology solutions that have helped organizations transform both digitally and organizationally. Richard has a passion for helping organizations achieve more; whether it is helping an organization build beautiful websites to support great content and social strategy, or helping an organization leverage emerging cloud and mobile technology to better service their members or the communities that they serve.
Richard is an author and an internationally recognized expert in Microsoft technology, marketing and professional services. As a sought-after speaker, Richard has often had the opportunity to share his insights, experiences, and advice around branding, partner management, social networking, collaboration, ROI, technology/process adoption, and business development at numerous industry events in around the globe. When not speaking at industry events, Richard works with Microsoft, partners, and customers as an advisor around business and technology, and serves on multiple committees, leads user groups, and is a Board Member of the Microsoft Community Leadership Board.
Think about your own definition of a mobile worker.
A 2015 study by Nicholas Bloom and coauthors found that when employees opted in to WFH policies, their productivity increased by 13%. When, nine months later, the same workers were given a choice between remaining at home and returning to the office, those who chose the former saw even further improvements: They were 22% more productive than they had been before the experiment. This suggests that people should probably determine for themselves the situation (home or office) that fits them best.
Leaders at GitLab, too, pointed to employee retention as a positive outcome of the company’s decision to be all-remote. The net benefit, they believe, including the productivity increases and property cost savings they’ve seen, equals $18,000 a year for each worker.
There are lots of companies and employees that think that flexible working is already here. And in some cases this is true. In many cases, however, all people hear is “working from home”. While this is obviously a key component of what flexible working offers, this simplistic understanding actually misses the point and belittles the true potential of an authentically flexible approach.
At its core, genuine flexible working just means being thoughtful about the tasks you have to achieve each day and choosing the most appropriate location from which to accomplish them. This is where the transformation happens, where work no longer is defined by a specific location, but instead is simply an activity, something you do.
Flexible working is about being able to be effective regardless of your location; whether that’s at home, in the airport, on the train, in a café, or at a specially designed drop-in office. It’s also about being effective because of your location. It is about being liberated by the cloud services and devices now available, not being constrained by it. You might need to be closer to customers; or you might need space for deep thinking. Flexible working lets you accomplish either with minimal fuss. It is most definitely not an employee perk or HR arrangement made for individuals based on their personal preferences or situation.
Organisations that adopt this strategic approach to flexible working will stand a greater chance of success not just because they have changed their culture and objectives to ones that unlock and reward the natural entrepreneurialism of their employees. They will also have addressed the key issue of trust. By focusing on the outcome for the organisation rather than the individual the entire trust dynamic changes, liberating employees and their creativity.
Study: conducted by FlexJobs and Mental Health America
40% of people report work disrupting personal/family time at least weekly - Based on a study of US knowledge workers conducted online, PSB Research, commissioned by Microsoft, 1,400 participants, April 2018; actual percent at +/-3% at 95% confidence level.
Our world is rapidly changing – History is the best teacher, so let’s start with this striking picture. This is the convocation of Pope Francis in 2013.
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Here is what Pope Benedict experienced in 2005
No iPads, smartphones w/42 megapixel cameras, or HD videos.
[CLICK SLIDE] There is only one cell phone being used to capture the moment – and it doesn’t look modern to us anymore.
Yammer Android – 5M+ Downloads
SharePoint Android – 1M+ Downloads
OneDrive – 1B+ Downloads
Office – 100M+ Downloads
Outlook – 100M+ Downloads
Sixty percent of employees report working with 10 or more people on a day-to-day basis (and one-half of these employees report needing to work with more than 20).
The Corporate Executive Board, “Breakthrough Performance in the New Work Environment,” http://www.executiveboard.com/exbd-resources/pdf/executive-guidance/eg2013-annual-final.pdf
People spend 80% of their time collaborating - https://hbr.org/2016/01/collaborative-overload
44% of meeting time seen as unproductive - Based on a study of US knowledge workers conducted online, PSB Research, commissioned by Microsoft, 1,400 participants, April 2018; actual percent at +/-3% at 95% confidence level.
For example, experts on deep work report that setting aside regular blocks of time to focus on challenging work can have massive benefits. However, only 32% of knowledge workers set aside time daily for deep, focused work (This finding is based on a study of US information workers conducted online with 1,400 participants in April 2018 by PSB Research, commissioned by Microsoft).
At work, people average 40 seconds on a computer screen before switching - Gloria Mark, Shamsi T Iqbal, Mary Czerwinski, Paul Johns, and Akane Sano. 2016.Neurotics can’t focus: An in situ study of online multitasking in the workplace. In Proceedings of the 2016 CHI conference on human factors in computing systems. ACM, 1739–1744.
When interrupted, an information worker can take about 25 minutes and a half minutes to get back to their original task – Gloria Mark Center for Humane Technology | Your Undivided Attention Podcast http://humanetech.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/CHT-Undivided-Attention-Podcast-Ep.7-Pardon-the-Interruptions.pdf
42% of IWs rarely meet new people at their company; when they do meet new people, it’s most often through a formal or informal company event - Based on a study of US knowledge workers conducted online, PSB Research, commissioned by Microsoft, 1,400 participants, April 2018; actual percent at +/-3% at 95% confidence level.
42% of IWs rarely meet new people at their company; when they do meet new people, it’s most often through a formal or informal company event - Based on a study of US knowledge workers conducted online, PSB Research, commissioned by Microsoft, 1,400 participants, April 2018; actual percent at +/-3% at 95% confidence level.
This is just as true for operating systems, browsers, office, and supporting technologies like the Intranet, Teams, Exchange, CRM and so on.
Doctors told heart patients that they will absolutely die in 6 months if they don’t change their habits around lifestyle, diet, and exercise. Those individuals certainly had the motivation, and a sense of urgency. They even had the tools and the vision as well as an understanding of the end state. Yet in this situation only 1 in 7 or 14% could manage to carry out the change on their own. Desire and motivation aren’t enough on their own: even when it’s literally a matter of life or death, the ability to change remains maddeningly elusive.
Think about that. If 1 in 7 people with an absolute need to change can’t change, what chance do we have of individuals in our organizations changing how they collaborate or communicate on their own? What are the odds of them adopting Office 365 and new ways of working without our help? The answer? Very low odds indeed.
Kegan, R., & Laskow Lahey, L. (2009). Immunity to change. How to overcome it and unlock the potential in yourself and your organization. Boston: Harvard Business Press. ISBN 078796378X. OCLC 44972130 - http://www.amazon.com/Immunity-Change-Potential-Organization-Leadership/dp/1422117367
User subscription based licensing: If our customers’ users aren’t using Office 365… why would they continue paying for it?
Smarter based on usage: The more people use the platform the more value the technology provides (Delve example). It also helps us build better experiences and target enhancements (in organizations and in Microsoft).
Take action in the flow of your work to be more effective every day: MyAnalytics provides you with intelligent, personalized, and actionable insights and suggestions so you can be more effective in 4 areas: focus, wellbeing, network and collaboration. These insights and suggestions appear in the flow of your work through inline suggestions and the Insights Outlook add-in for you to be your most productive self.
Understand how you work to improve your work patterns over time: With the help of the Microsoft Graph, MyAnalytics gathers data from your everyday work in email, meetings, calls and chats so you can understand how you spend your time and who you spend it with. The data gets surfaced on your personal dashboard and on your weekly digest emails so you can ultimately improve your work patterns.
Privacy by design: All of the insights MyAnalytics surfaces are personal and private, and only you can access them. They are based on your own work patterns from your Office 365 mailbox and calls and chats in Teams or Skype for business. MyAnalytics stores your data in your mailbox itself, which means that your data is protected the same way your email and calendar information is kept private and protected.
MyAnalytics empowers individuals to master their time by delivering personal productivity insights based on their everyday work in Office 365.
It is designed to help knowledge workers:
get sufficient uninterrupted time to focus
prioritize disconnecting and recharging
manage their networks
and improve collaboration habits.
There’s 5 different ways in which MyAnalytics will present you with insights that you can use to make decisions, and you can find these either on the web or in Outlook:
On the web:
In your personal dashboard: you can see statistics on how you’ve spent your time over the past month, productivity insights about your work habits, helpful suggestions for improvement, and explore your network, top collaborators, and collaboration activities. You can access your dashboard by opening the app launcher in Office 365 and searching for MyAnalytics.
In Outlook:
With your focus plan: it helps you block regular time for your top-priority work by scheduling up to two hours every day to focus. One way it promotes focus is by silencing chats in Teams and in Skype for Business during that booked time. Book focus time in the MyAnalytics dashboard or in the Insights Outlook add-in.
In the Insights Outlook add-in: it presents you with cards that report on aspects of your recent work experience and let you respond in various ways. You can get actionable insights to get more done in Outlook by opening the add-in in the app or selecting the ellipsis (…) in the top-right corner of an email in Outlook on the web
In your weekly digest: receive a weekly digest in your Outlook inbox that gives you highlights about your previous week. Each week you’ll receive an email related to your focus, wellbeing, network and collaboration work patterns.
With inline suggestions: get brief suggestions and AI-driven notifications in Outlook while or composing an email or a meeting invitation
But as importantly, each employee is empowered with personal and private insights into their own work patterns – visible only to them - and intelligent, actionable suggestions to help them gain uninterrupted time to focus, disconnect and recharge, and network and collaborate more effectively.
These private insights are available through a personal dashboard…
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Employees also get intelligent and actionable insights in the flow of their work.
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For instance, inline suggestions that appear as employees read or compose emails and invitations encourage them to follow best practices, such as scheduling delivery to align with the recipient’s working hours.
The ”Plan your time away” checklist
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helps employees seamlessly set their out of office notification, inform top collaborators of their time away, resolve meetings they’ll miss, and schedule catch-up time with colleagues when they’re back.
All of these insights are personal and private for every employee. The data is stored in their mailbox and protected in the same way as their email and calendar information.
Cultivate an engaged, productive, & happy workforce
Today’s work environment can easily create a sense of imbalance, fragmentation, and stress.
It’s more important than ever to ensure employees are empowered to do their best work, have the opportunity to learn and grow, and maintain a sense community and connectedness.
Prioritize customer relationships & align revenue related functions
As companies across the globe navigate economic shocks, it’s never been more important to prioritize customer relationships. Organizational level insights provide visibility into how collaboration patterns with customers, partners, and vendors have changed, and ensure revenue-related functions are aligned across the business.
Understand what drives success & make better decisions faster
Organization agility is key to building a resilient business. Workplace Analytics helps organizations understand quantitatively what drives success, empowering leaders to make better decision for the business and the confidence to act quickly for maximum impact.
Cultivate an engaged, productive, & happy workforce
Today’s work environment can easily create a sense of imbalance, fragmentation, and stress.
It’s more important than ever to ensure employees are empowered to do their best work, have the opportunity to learn and grow, and maintain a sense community and connectedness.
Prioritize customer relationships & align revenue related functions
As companies across the globe navigate economic shocks, it’s never been more important to prioritize customer relationships. Organizational level insights provide visibility into how collaboration patterns with customers, partners, and vendors have changed, and ensure revenue-related functions are aligned across the business.
Understand what drives success & make better decisions faster
Organization agility is key to building a resilient business. Workplace Analytics helps organizations understand quantitatively what drives success, empowering leaders to make better decision for the business and the confidence to act quickly for maximum impact.
Other customers and partners have tons of experiences they are willing to share.
Year after year voicemail use has dropped 8%, with only 14% of people bothering to listen through the entire voicemail message.
38% of video users report increase of improved retention in meetings that use video instead of just voice. 100% of video users say it helps them accelerate decision making.
From Forrester TEI - Another interviewed organization described a use case that has resulted in millions of dollars in additional revenue: “Opening an office used to take three to four months. Our latest opening, using Office 365, took 18 days. When we get a grant, we can only start to invoice once we begin to perform work. That means we were losing three months of revenue.” This amounted to nearly $200,000 per month for one office, and five offices were being opened in a typical year.
If key people add their internal profile link to their yammer profile or an intranet link to their email signature (when emailing internal people) it can help encourage people to visit and view each other’s profiles, or shared content.