• Ways auto industry can transform with As a Service and employee experience

    The automotive industry is scrambling to transform itself in various areas: green (move to electric); smart (move to connected), etc. Much is being driven by nimble startups like Tesla, unencumbered by legacy concerns. This post focuses on two two areas that could further drive the turnaround and may be even more important because they are…


  • Workplace collaboration on fire but distribution uneven

    Some interesting articles and research have just been published about this exploding market. This is where it started for me: Mapping Workplace Collaboration Startups.


  • Microsoft Teams Live Events and the new channels of work

    I’ve just come off a week of successfully helping a customer run a Microsoft Teams Live Event for an annual event they run. The nature of the event they ran last week was to showcase innovation by the IT department to the rest of the organisation. This was the 5th such event being run in…


  • Effective Meetings and Collaboration at work and Microsoft Teams

    I’m often frustrated with how meetings are misused and ineffective at work. I know I’m not alone 😬


  • Favourite demos from Microsoft Ready and Inspire 2019

    Ready is an annual employee focused event run by Microsoft and Inspire is partner focused. We generally run them in July and present some really cool demos and content and so here is some public facing material I can share and my favourites from a bunch. Notice in the case of the Teams in the Classroom…


  • Thought Rocket: State of Enterprise Collaboration

    As the title of this post suggests, this is a very quick thought on the state of enterprise collaboration, mostly captured in the form of a DanelDoodle – the one above. Some added thoughts/considerations: In my view, each new phase supplements the last, not replaces and all products and forms of activity still exist and…


  • Beyond Technology Adoption – Business Scenarios with Microsoft Teams

    Microsoft Teams is such an incredible work productivity tool. It doesn’t just bring work from other applications into the conversation but the whole tool itself. That plus the ability it offers to structure activities into logical workflows provides perfect context for bringing business scenarios to life. Business scenarios are an important mechanism in beyond adoption to…


  • Thought Rocket: The Conversation is the Collaboration

    Workplace chat is something I am heavily focused on at the moment, i.e. my customers use of Microsoft Teams. Either through lack of knowledge or legacy thinking, I’m faced with initial confusion. This quick video aims to tackle that. I’m trying to emphasise that it’s not about the many things I get asked to address…