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.
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
6. Flexible work is prevalent – rethink your definition of a mobile worker.
ANYTIME…
7. ON ANY
DEVICE…
By 2015 at least 60% of information workers will interact with content applications
via a mobile device - Gartner
8. WITH
MORE
PEOPLE…
We work with more people on a day-to-day basis today than ever before.
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. INSIDE & OUTSIDE OF
THE ORGANIZATION…
We also work with contractors, customers or partners more…
12. 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.
24. HOW IS OUR
WORK
CHANGING?
Do you work the same way? Are you keeping up
with the technology and better ways of
collaborating? Why not?
25. 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
26. IT DOESN’T HAPPEN
ON IT’S OWN…
Even when people have the tools, vision, and an understanding of the risks.
29. Office Mix
Simplified Admin
Center experience
The New
Office
New Partner Admin
Center
Office 365
Adapter
Embedded
Images OWA Policy Tips
Updated Lync mobile
clients
Office 365 SSO with
SAML 2.0 Identity
Providers
Multi-factor
authentication
Service Pack 1 for
Office 365 ProPlus
SAP and Power BI and
Power Query support
Windows Azure Active
Authentication
DirSync Scoping
and Filtering
Exchange Online
Inactive Mailboxes
PDF support for
SharePoint Online
Lync Online Integrated
Reporting
Office Online
real-time co-
authoring OneNote for Mac,
Android, iPhone, and iPad
updates
Office 365
operated by
21Vianet
Admin App for iOS,
Android, and WP
OWA Calendar Search
OneDrive for Business Storage
increase
Power Map for Excel
SharePoint
Newsfeed App
for Windows 8
Lync meeting
scheduling from OWA
Office Mobile
for iPhone &
Android phones
Rights Management
Services
OneNote
for iPad
Exchange Online
Address Book
Policies
Message Center
EXO: 50 GB
Mailboxes
Exchange group
naming policy
OWA for iPhone &
OWA for iPad
New SharePoint
Workflows
Simplified Yammer
login
Office Lens
Power Map GA for all
Excel 2013 users
OneDrive for Business
Improvements
90 Day message
trace
OneDrive for Business
Sync for Windows
Lync Online Remote
PowerShell
Lync mobile
client updates
Office 365 Switch Plans
OneNote for
iPhone and
Android
phones
Azure AD
Password Sync
Lync and SharePoint
Service Reporting
Connecting
Skype & Lync
OneDrive for Business apps for
Windows 8 & iOS
People View in
OWA
1 TB for
OneDrive for
Business
Office 365
Developer APIs
S/MIME
Encryption
Office for
iPad + 1.1
update
Project Lite released
CLOUD SERVICES
ARE IN CONSTANT
MOTION…
So the work of driving meaningful adoption never ends.
30. THIS IS
IMPORTANT
FOR ALL OF
US…
The more people use the platform the more value the technology provides.
31.
32. While we certainly made things better to improve collaboration it takes more…
REMEMBERTHIS?HOWWE
CONDUCTMEETINGS…
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35.
36.
37.
38. HOLD A FEW
YAMJAMS! USE
#YAMWIN &
CREATE STARTER
YAMMER
GROUPS…
Create a help group, a yammer ideas group, and more to drive engagement.
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46. @RHARBRIDGE
WHAT ELSE CAN I
(AS ONE PERSON)
DO?
It can be really hard to find ‘actionable’ ideas or things you can do…
48. @RHARBRIDGE
0%
5%
10%
15%
20%
25%
30%
35%
40%
45%
0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% 30% 35% 40% 45% 50% 55%
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 among the most effective and most used methods.
51. Sometimes the most value social can provide is visibility and connection…
TRYNARRATING
YOURWORK…
52. No the answer isn’t always LetMeBingThatForYou (though too often it is)…
What if you answered via Yammer? What if you answered with a SharePoint search?
IFSOMEONEASKS
YOUAQUESTION…
53. Send a link, use external sharing, attach a OneDrive file (OWA+), and more…
STOP EMAILING
ATTACHMENTS!
54. USE THE BEST
TOOL FOR THE
JOB…
How can you optimize how you work? Would Yammer or Lync be better?
55. WE NEED BETTER
ADOPTION…
There is no secret sauce. Adoption takes planning,
and continuous effort and investment (at an
organizational level and a personal level).
So why not start now?
59. Thank You!
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Think about your own definition of a mobile 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.
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.
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
This is just as true for operating systems, browsers, office, and supporting technologies like Lync, Exchange, CRM and so on.
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.
A social business is one that recognises that its greatest value is how its people are connected to each other and how in turn they are connected to the people they serve inside and outside the business. It’s one that truly recognises the value of simply bringing people together and giving them an outcome you want them to achieve. Social tools such as Yammer replicate the experience we have in our personal lives with social media and spreads it throughout work.
For example, a hamburger chain in the US recently introduced social sharing within the company, empowering local store managers to create and share ideas on how to get customers to spend more at the bar to reverse flagging profits. Soon stores began to put experiments into place. Turnover noticeably improved. Even better, the stores that experimented also reported lower staff turnover. You ask your employees to help you solve a problem, you get them aligned – and it turns out they’re a lot more effective and engaged.
A social business is one that recognises that its greatest value is how its people are connected to each other and how in turn they are connected to the people they serve inside and outside the business. It’s one that truly recognises the value of simply bringing people together and giving them an outcome you want them to achieve. Social tools such as Yammer replicate the experience we have in our personal lives with social media and spreads it throughout work.
For example, a hamburger chain in the US recently introduced social sharing within the company, empowering local store managers to create and share ideas on how to get customers to spend more at the bar to reverse flagging profits. Soon stores began to put experiments into place. Turnover noticeably improved. Even better, the stores that experimented also reported lower staff turnover. You ask your employees to help you solve a problem, you get them aligned – and it turns out they’re a lot more effective and engaged.
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).
If you don’t have an effective meeting you will find that team members who missed a meeting may not get the same level of information. You could miss action items or things that require follow-up. Participants could multitask during the meeting making the meeting less effective.
It’s important to get everyone on the same page. When individuals take their own meeting notes, you have different versions of the meeting. And, you don’t have a single source of all the information for people who miss the meeting.
Potential Office 365 solution:
Create a OneNote notebook for all team members to access and identify a section in the notebook for “Team Meeting Notes.” Using a new page for each meeting helps to keep things organized and tidy.
Easily take collaborative meeting notes directly from a Lync Meeting using the Shared Notes option. Select the location of your team’s OneNote notebook and a new page for the meeting you’re having will automatically be created, complete with meeting participants and details.
Following a team meeting, post a link to the OneNote within your Yammer team group so that others know where to access the notes. Yammer will also allow for team members to continue to have discussion, or ask questions related to the meeting after it has ended.
As your coworkers use Yammer, ask them to think about ways that Yammer has helped them. Then, encourage them to describe their experience and post their stories to the company network with the hashtag #YamWin. Afterwards, find the best YamWins and post them to the Yammer Help Group as examples to inspire your entire company.
Yammer Ideas Group. Create another group, called the Yammer Ideas Group. Use this group to brainstorm ways that your company can use Yammer to improve how work gets done. Ask your coworkers to share their ideas in the group. Then, test out the ideas to see how they do. Showcase examples of success. Brainstorm ways to improve ideas that need more work.
YamJam. Engage one or more executives or department heads to participate in 30-60 minute, live discussions using Yammer. Discussion topics will be predefined and a Yammer community manager will help facilitate and moderate.
Other customers and partners have tons of experiences they are willing to share.
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.
Notice I said leaders – not necessarily site owners etc – this is important. You want the leaders of a site/initiative to know how frequently it’s being used, by what departments/users etc.