From the beginning of SharePoint to today the use of the word ‘Collaboration’ has vastly changed. Ask your Microsoft representative about their collaboration tools and you will get a list that includes Lync, Skype, Exchange, Yammer, and oh yeah SharePoint too. Now Office 365 is simultaneously changing the face of both Collaboration and Communication across organizations. We'll take a look at the available services and experiences within Office 365 and point out essentials to using them optimally.
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How Office 365 is Changing the Face of Collaboration and Communication
1. Adam Levithan
Product Manager, Metalogix
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@collabadam
How Office 365 is Changing the Face
of Collaboration and Communication
2. Adam Levithan
@collabadam
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Manager 9+ years in Collaborative Systems
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10. What is The Office Graph?
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11. What is The Office Graph?
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17. Group Insights in Delve
Discover and connect
through Groups
Easily get back to the
people and groups
that matter most
Delve stitches together all
recent activity around a
group for quick insights and
access
FUTURE
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18. Organizational Insights
Drill down on time spent
on various activities and
identify patterns
Identify opportunities to
improve cross team
collaboration.
Rich Interactive dashboards,
promoting visual discovery
and insights for people and
teams
FUTURE
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19. GQL
• Graph Query API’s for building rich apps
• Sprinkle intelligence to existing apps
• Access data from across workloads vs silo
• Preview @ Build/Ignite
• Ability to connect to LOB and 3rd party services
• Expand coverage and value of first party apps
• Classification, concept and expertise detection
• SharePoint 2016 – Hybrid connectivity
• Sneak peak @ Build/Ignite
Office Graph Extensibility
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24. Create an enjoyable user experience
Choose a platform that resonates with users and balances form and function.
Thank you Joshua Steiner for this great image
25. Monitor usage across tools
Celebrate milestones and
successes along the way.
Do not be afraid to set goals. It’s
perfectly acceptable to refine them.
26. Align Value
Reduced time and rework
involved in creating
proposals
Reduced time and rework
HR form approval status
and tracking
Approval status and
tracking
Central repository for all
TPS reports
Central repository for all …
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Create an enjoyable user experience: If employees don’t like using a collaboration tool, you’re facing an uphill battle for adoption. The most widely adopted tools are designed with the user in mind. Choose a platform that resonates with users and balances form and function.
Monitor usage across tools: Whenever possible, make data-driven decisions based on usage and user experience research. Avoid making assumptions about what we think works best and run reports to understand what tools and their specific features are most commonly used.
Map needs to organizations
Map those to your organization
Lack of executive sponsorship: When a company’s leaders don’t have a presence on your corporate intranet, employees throughout the organization take notice. It sends a message to the organization that using the intranet is secondary and not a value-added activity. The more visible your senior leaders are in your system, the more adoption you’re likely to see.
Focus on scaling successes: Once you identify what collaboration tools are working best for your users, look for ways to replicate that success. The “fail fast” philosophy used by many successful start-up companies is reliant on having no reservations about pivoting your strategy. If you observe several months of low/no usage, don’t be afraid to abandon a tool. Instead invest that time and energy into tools that go viral with your users.
Create a Long-Term strategy for adoption
Utilize governance organizations to organically grow
Dedicate business focused resources to adoption process
Focus on scaling successes