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Starting the Adoption Process
Teams should be the centerpiece of your plan if you want to drive Microsoft 365 adoption. What has worked for me is pitching unified communications as the future of work.
If you can get the org using Teams for chat and meetings, you can look at collaboration or voice workloads. A successful implementation will recognize what the "whole package" of Microsoft 365 is offering.
There's a reason Teams has risen to 250 million monthly active users and is used at 90 something percent of the Fortune 100. It's not because Teams is purple Skype.
kirtspaulding while I do understand that MS Teams is the centerpiece for Microsoft 365, this organization is currently using a different collaboration platform. It will take some time and convincing to switch. Granted, that switch will have to happen at some point.
The more I look at how my new organization functions, I am leaning more towards looking at an over arching governance board first, to tie the organization together in this adoption. While IT can make the swap quick, the rest of the organization will need time to adjust. There are a lot of moving parts and there are some misplaced feelings towards certain applications due to previous rollouts.
I do look forward to creating this plan and getting the Executive backing for this process. Culture change is extremely difficult, you will always have to understand the culture first before you can move the organization to a new way of thinking.
"some misplaced feelings towards certain applications due to previous rollouts" what a great way to say everyone hates SharePoint
- It sounds like you have a great starting plan. Build the foundation and then establish common-interest goals across the organizations divisions/departments.
As you alluded to, cultural (people) change is a pivotal keystone in adoption success and understanding the often multi-faceted people-component of your internal business can greatly increase your success with any change.
Best of luck to you and with your organizational transformation! There are a ton of resources available, and depending on your urgency, also a lot of companies that specialize in assisting with digital transformations and cloud adoption.
-MR
