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Office 365 Tips & Tricks
This sounds like a good program in the making. I like the practical nature of these tasks/tips and that they can be tailored for each group.
One idea, you might have something like this already but is an adoption site using the new SharePoint Communication Sites as discussed here - https://jaredmatfess.com/2017/07/16/sharepoint-communications-sites-for-your-office-365-adoption-site/.
For ideas on business scenarios, check out the https://productivitylibrary.fasttrack.microsoft.com/en-us/office/envision/productivitylibrary if you aren't familiar with it, that can be filtered by Industry, Roles, or Products. There is a lot of ready-made resources on the site.
Do you have champions, with staff that can drive and spread Office 365 knowledge alongside these sorts of initiatives? Are you aware of the https://fto365dev.blob.core.windows.net/media/Default/DocResources/en-us/Office_365_Adoption_Guide.pdf already, that has lots of great info. Also are you familiar with the https://support.office.com/en-US/article/Office-365-Adoption-Content-Pack-77ff780d-ab19-4553-adea-09cb65ad0f1f? That could give you some good metrics on how well Office 365 is being utilised and may shine a light on services that are being underused. This could allow you to measure any improvements in the subsequent months.
What will the main call to action be, as you want staff to go off and put these skills into practice? Having a contest or some other activities around this, could promote some healthy competition between departments etc.
Those were just a few thoughts anyway, I'd be interested in what other members have to say! Oh incidentally, Excel Survey has been renamed to Forms for Excel.
Hello Cian Allner,
Thanks a lot for all the good inputs.
We will indeed group the use cases collected from our brainstorming with the different department into our own Productivity library, probably a Communication site as you mentionned (we are waiting for it to be released in our tenant ... the joy to have a European tenant :-))
For the moment, we have OneDrive champions, but a limited community and more tech-savvy than business-oriented. So I agree with you, we need to consider the reinforcement of that network. The brainstorming sessions will hopefully allow us to identify good candidates. Otherwise, I agree with you the Adoption pack with PowerBI is a great tool to identify pockets of key users.
Regarding what we expect end-users to do, we are going to use newsletters and blend the content into our LMS courses in order to touch end-users at the right time when they need information. A use case contest with awards and goodies is a great idea that we planned to use after the roll-out of our "Productivity library" in order to collect even more use cases and success stories. But for the moment, I am not sure what route to take regards the gamification mechanisms. Any hints ?
Thanks a lot for the heads up on Forms for Excel !
Our tenant being European, it is still called Excel Survey so I had not noticed the name change :-)
