InnerVentures

  • Battle of the design tools – Canva vs Microsoft – round two

    A lot can happen in 31 months. I first wrote about this on February the 4th 2023: Battle of the design tools – Canva vs Microsoft Designer. I’ve been using both tools since and one of them has come an extremely long way. But how do they stack up today? I’m not going to go…

    Stephen Danelutti

  • Battle of the design tools – Canva vs Microsoft Designer

    ℹ️ NOTE: Read this updated post for changes, exactly 31 months after the first post below: Battle of the design tools – Canva vs Microsoft – round two. I’ve been using Canva for many years now and pay for the Pro version. £9.99 per month is not that cheap but I have definitely received value from my…

    Stephen Danelutti

  • Microsoft 365 customer questions – Sales Productivity

    I work in the business of dealing with customers questions on Microsoft 365 all the time (disclosure), either directly or indirectly. This is part of a series of posts where I share them if they can be of help to others. Where I can of course and naturally, not just the questions but the answers…

    Stephen Danelutti

  • A review of the new Microsoft Whiteboard

    Naturally I used Microsoft Whiteboard for the review itself. I then exported an image of it and that is what you see above. This is not so much a feature overview since you can find that all here: Welcome to the new Whiteboard! That was the announcement post from a few days ago. This is…

    Stephen Danelutti

  • Microsoft 365 customer questions – Viva Connections

    I’ve decided, while I work in the business of dealing with customers questions on Microsoft 365 all the time (disclosure), either directly or indirectly, I might as well share them if they can be of help to others. Where I can of course and naturally, not just the questions but the answers too. All questions…

    Stephen Danelutti

  • Minding the accelerating technology gap

    Even if every company is now a tech company, there is still a massive gap between the early and fast adopters and the laggards. It goes beyond the chasm of initial technology adoption because now the assumption is all companies have to be using technology in some form or other to compete. The question is…

    Stephen Danelutti

  • Internal Communications is more important than ever but missing a trick

    If you’ve been following anything I have written in the last few months around employee experience, you’ll see that it is equally as important and indeed crucial to customer experience but often lacks attention, although that is now changing. It’s similar to enterprise software which has often lagged behind end consumer software in terms of…

    Stephen Danelutti

  • The technology platform business we are all in

    Stephen Danelutti

  • The supremacy of business outcomes in a low code no code world

    You may know of the new low code / no code approach to developing technology solutions (good primer if not). Simply put, it offers a development platform to users that requires little to no coding capabilities to build applications. There are benefits to this but also challenges which is why its important to consider the…

    Stephen Danelutti

  • Tech Intensity and the Adaptive Organisation

    Tech Intensity is not my phrase or concept, it comes from the CEO of the company I work for, Microsoft – Satya Nadella first wrote about it here earlier this year: The necessity of tech intensity in today’s digital world.

    Stephen Danelutti

  • Considering buying a new technology platform, ask this about their customer success

    I’ve been on both the receiving and offering end of efforts so can speak to both. In the Software as a Service business especially, if that is how the platform is offered, the vendor should have a team supporting how the platform is deployed, adopted and maintained. Moreover, the team should be focused on helping…

    Stephen Danelutti