• 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…


  • Adoption Hacks

    Adoption hacks are little tips and tricks you can use to stimulate adoption of technology. Actions that can include any number of activities, all designed to get users learning about, understanding and using features of a technology to get new value from it. Activities can be anything from communication, learning components, social proof (showing how…


  • Enabling Usage Insights for Office 365 Customers

    This post provides first some simple context for whom and why it is important to understand usage of enterprise technology platforms and then how we enable it at Microsoft for the Office 365 suite of products. You can skip the context and head straight to the enabling part if you like. It’s important for Customer Success…


  • Agile in nature not just by name

    Satya Nadella (CEO of Microsoft where I work) recently shared his thoughts on how organisations need to embrace “tech intensity” to innovate and grow in today’s high-intensity digital economy. He didn’t specifically call out speed but its implicit in everything he said. I’m surrounded in the work I do at Microsoft, by IT teams that…