Digital Workplace

Tristan Dashwood
dtlpub
Published in
2 min readJun 6, 2017

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Microsoft’s Office 365 brings your office productivity to the cloud, empowering your employees with the freedom to work where they like, when they like. The cloud subscription model offers many benefits to your organisation and employees alike; apps are always up to date, administrative overhead is reduced, and licensing is a breeze.

Office365 provides multiple tools to facilitate employee interaction and collaboration. The cloud platform allows ease of use for users needing to access and collaborate on documents on the go, whenever they need.

Unlike some larger vendors, we don’t act just as licence brokers; we strive to provide our customers with the full end-to-end journey with Office365. This means sitting down with you to see if Office365 is the right fit for your organisation, then walking you through the steps to get the most out of your investment. We follow Microsoft’s 3-point model for driving customer value: Engage, Measure, and Manage.

Engage

Increase adoption of Office365 with staff by engaging them with how it can streamline their workday through features like live document collaboration, document access anywhere, and the stack of meeting enrichment tools.

Measure

Measuring and achieving your adoption success with Office365 is a 5-point process:

1. Identify key stakeholders

2. Identify & prioritise business scenarios

3. Create a success plan

4. Execute success plan

5. Sustainment

The key to measuring success is to evaluate your current state before getting started. Use this time to set your benchmarks and identify any business KPIs that may be measured to determine a successful outcome. This initial stage is also an integral time to start engaging with user groups to measurement user-sentiment prior to adoption so that comparisons can be made post-adoption.

Manage

The third step to creating a successful Office365 implementation is the intelligent management of your investment. Microsoft provide an Admin Learning Centre to stay up to date with all the available tools and resources. Monitoring communications from Microsoft is an essential component of stay on top of any upcoming changes so you identify any potential impacts and preempt any necessary training for users.

At Digital Transformation, we help our customers to streamline their O365 on-boarding, execute data migrations, manage organisational change and support their applications so that they can maximise their O365 investment and achieve their business objectives. If you’re considering making the change to Office365, talk to us to ensure a smooth transition and maximise your business potential.

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