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Starting the Adoption Process
I just joined a new company and the organization is at an interesting position. They started the conversion into Microsoft 365 with OneDrive and Exchange Online, but stopped the process due to lack o...
Karuana_Gatimu_MSFT
Community Manager
Community ManagerHI @Shaun and welcome to the community! Here's a few things to think about:
1. All the successful world wide adoption programs I've been a part of had one thing in common - a business imperative. All the ideas below are great but without the proper business scenarios you won't get the leadership buy in you need.
2. My course for Microsoft Service Adoption best practices can give you some ideas about the proper framework to follow specifically for Microsoft tech. It does use Teams as an example project but likely you'll need to start with SharePoint or some of the PowerPlatform components if Teams is not an issue. Pay close attention to the success measures part. Find it at https://aka.ms/AdoptionCourse and use it alongside other organizational change management methods.
3. In the world as we are dealing with it one thing has become very clear - taking an approach that puts the employee and customer at the center of any improvements is a wise approach. We call it #HumanFirst and it works to break the logger jam that can take over these projects.
Whatever you do stay here in the community where there are a TON of smart people to help. Just remember that the technology is irrelevant and should fade to the background of the actual business impact you are driving and you'll do just fine!
1. All the successful world wide adoption programs I've been a part of had one thing in common - a business imperative. All the ideas below are great but without the proper business scenarios you won't get the leadership buy in you need.
2. My course for Microsoft Service Adoption best practices can give you some ideas about the proper framework to follow specifically for Microsoft tech. It does use Teams as an example project but likely you'll need to start with SharePoint or some of the PowerPlatform components if Teams is not an issue. Pay close attention to the success measures part. Find it at https://aka.ms/AdoptionCourse and use it alongside other organizational change management methods.
3. In the world as we are dealing with it one thing has become very clear - taking an approach that puts the employee and customer at the center of any improvements is a wise approach. We call it #HumanFirst and it works to break the logger jam that can take over these projects.
Whatever you do stay here in the community where there are a TON of smart people to help. Just remember that the technology is irrelevant and should fade to the background of the actual business impact you are driving and you'll do just fine!