Scaling the Impact of AI Transformation for Your Organization with Viva Goals
As organizations begin to integrate AI solutions more heavily into their daily operations, it is essential for leaders to be able to demonstrate the business impact of digital transformation. Being able to scale the impact of AI transformation offers crucial insights into its effectiveness, enabling companies to pinpoint areas for enhancement, fine-tune their strategies, and ensure a positive return on investment. However, the question remains: How do you scale the impact of AI transformation? Join us on February 28th, at 8:30 am PST/11:30 am EST for a Viva Goals Office Hours 60-minute session, Scaling the Impact of AI Transformation for Your Organization with Viva Goals, with Viva Goals expert, Chris Rosa. During this session, Chris will share approaches to scale AI transformation success, build organizational alignment and demonstrate how to utilize Viva Goals to track and accurately report on the business impact. Featured in this session: - Customer story of how one Viva Goals customer tracked AI transformation across multiple teams and utilized Viva Goals to report on the business impact and organization alignment. - See a demo of the Copilot in Viva Goals dashboard and how you can use it to understand team productivity and how it is directly affecting the organization - Interactive polls throughout the presentation and an opportunity to ask Viva Goals experts all your questions! Don't miss it, register here!2023 Retros and 2024 Goal Planning with Viva Goals
A key component of setting goals for 2024 is learning from the lessons of 2023: What went well, what can be improved upon, and how can you make informed decisions for a more successful and productive year ahead? Join us on December 13th, at 8 am PST/11 am EST for a Viva Goals Office Hours 60-minute session, 2023 Retros and 2024 Goal Planning with Viva Goals, with Viva Goals experts, Vivian Ajetunmobi and Wendy Pat Fong. During this session, they will share how you can make the goal retro and planning process more impactful with Viva Goals. Featured in this session: - Tactical tips for conducting your 2023 retros and embarking upon 2024 goal planning, including real-world examples and how to use Copilot in Viva Goals to make this entire process more efficient - Viva Goals Product Deep Dive featuring Senior Product Manager Vidarth Jaikrishnan: Empower every team to plan and execute on goals more effectively in 2024. Learn how our newest feature Goal Customization can give your organization and teams the flexibility to title and structure goals in line with goal-setting preferences beyond the OKR framework. Plus, get a first glance at what enhancements are coming soon! - Interactive polls throughout the presentation and an opportunity to ask Viva Goals experts all of your burning questions! Don't miss this session, register here!Viva Goals is now generally available!
Today we are excited to announce the general availability of Microsoft Viva Goals. Since our initial announcement and private preview launch in May 2022, we have taken feedback from hundreds of Viva customers across the enterprise and global partners to ensure the best product experience. Thank you to every person who participated in this process. We love hearing feedback like this from Neudesic: "OKRs and Viva Goals offer Neudesic an opportunity to work directly with executives on the things that matter most to their business, helping them get from strategy to execution. From here, we gain valuable insight into the broader needs of our customer’s business and can work with them to drive better business outcomes using this newly found visibility, alignment, and level of trust created at senior levels.” —Kevin Corr, National Director Business Advisory Services at Neudesic Here you can watch Viva Goals CVP Vetri Vellore give an overview of Viva Goals: If you’re an existing Viva suite customer, you have access to Viva Goals today. If you’re not a Viva suite customer yet, learn more about Viva Goals and the entire Viva suite. What is Viva Goals? Microsoft Viva Goals is a goal-setting and management solution that aligns teams to your organization’s strategic priorities, driving results and a thriving business. We help business leaders build higher performing teams, HR leaders improve employee experience, and employees feel a sense of purpose and belonging at work. But how? Creating clarity: With one centralized source of truth for goal setting, monitoring progress, and assessing success across your organization, you create clarity for your team, connect daily work to outcomes and align at all levels Focusing teams on impact, not output: Shift focus from effort and activity to impact and outcomes, share progress across your organization with customizable dashboards that turn data into insights, and stay agile at scale Bringing goals into the flow of everyday work: Keep goals top-of-mind by bringing data and actions into the spaces your team is already using, like Microsoft Teams, ADO, and the most popular data and project management tools. Today, Viva Goals supports the OKR (Objectives and Key Results) goal-setting framework, popularized at Google, Intel, and other Fortune 500 companies for alignment it naturally creates between the work teams are doing and an organization’s top business priorities. Because Viva Goals is a part of Microsoft Viva, it integrates into the employee experience, empowering people and teams to be their best from anywhere with both a seamless Teams integration and web app. Viva Goals also supports integration with tools you use today, so you can stay connected to progress without adding another layer of work for your team. Scroll down for a list of all the integrations we offer today. Viva Goals Access and Licensing Now, you can start using the full set of features in Viva Goals with the purchase of one of the following SKUs: Microsoft Viva Goals SKU Microsoft Viva SKU Viva Goals is available as an application in Microsoft Teams and as a web application. The Viva Goals web application has no prerequisites; customers can purchase and use Viva Goals with the web application without any other Microsoft product or subscription. A Microsoft Teams product license is a prerequisite to use the Viva Goals application in Teams. Teams can be licensed with Microsoft 365 F1, F3, E3, A3, E5, A5; Office 365 F3, E1, A1, E3, A3, E5, A5; Microsoft 365 Business Basic, Business Standard, Business Premium; or Microsoft SharePoint K, Plan 1, or Plan 2 license. For pricing details, a comprehensive list of what’s included in your existing subscription, and what’s unlocked with Viva Goals SKU or Viva suite SKU purchase, go to Microsoft Viva Goals. see this page. For details on how to start rolling out Viva Goals in your tenant, go to our docs page for step-by-step configuration and admin guidance. You can also get started today with a Viva Goals trial. Ask your Microsoft account representative or sign up yourself. Viva Goals Capabilities Now let’s look at some of the features that bring your organization's OKRs into the flow of work with Viva Goals. We will continue to add more exciting capabilities to this list in the future. Make sure to watch the Viva Goals session at Ignite for a product overview and complete feature breakdown. Define success by creating OKRs from scratch or using built-in templates Whether you’re an old hand at OKRs or are using OKRs for the first time, we have features that make OKRs accessible. Align at all levels of the organization with OKR approval workflows, Organizational, Team, and Individual goal pages, and Chart View. Understand your team’s goals in the context of goals up, down, and across your organization. Connect work to outcomes with Projects and Tasks aligned to OKRs Ensure every employee understands how the work they do every day contributes to moving the needle for your organization. Focus discussions, provide context and simplify reporting with custom dashboards and OKRs that dynamically update. Customizable dashboard and automations help leaders keep goals top-of-mind at town halls and team meetings and offer insight into real-time progress towards your goals. Share progress and insights across your organization with shareable links to dashboards Progress shouldn’t exist in a silo. With shareable links, you can keep every employee engaged in team goal setting and progress. Viva Goals app in Teams Is your organization beginning to use Viva Goals? Search for “Viva Goals” in the Teams app menu, pin to your nav rail, and start exploring today. Stay in the flow of work with the Viva Goals app in Azure Dev Ops Viva Goals layers into the systems of work your team is already using, like Azure Dev Ops—keeping business goals front and center in the place where work is happening. Communicate, collaborate and check-in on goals with the message extension in Teams chat. Build a culture of conversation around goals with the Teams messaging extension. Integrations Available Now I’m pleased to share that the following integrations are live today: Amazon Redshift Asana Azure DevOps BigQuery Box Domo Excel Online Favro GitHub GitLab HubSpot Jira Looker Mode monday.com MS SQL MySQL PostgreSQL Salesforce Smartsheet Snowflake Tableau Trello Zendesk Note that all third-party integrations require a separate subscription with that 3rd party. The Next Generation of Goal-Setting for Businesses Right now, leaders, managers, and all employees are rethinking the how, what, where, when, and why of work. Employees are looking for a culture they care about, and a sense of purpose and meaning at work. They want to know that they’re part of something bigger and see how what they come to work to do every day ladders up to bigger goals and organizational mission. And as hybrid work continues to become more normalized—only 50% of businesses are planning to go back to fully in-person work in the coming year, according to the 2022 Work Trends Index—we need to figure out how to both meet these increasingly important employee needs of purpose and meaning at work all while delivering business results. We hope you’ll join us on this journey to help organizations and employees focus, align, and achieve their fullest potential. For more information on the road to Viva Goals and best practices in the product, check out the Intrazone podcast we just recorded here: To stay up to date on the latest with Viva Goals, see details on features & licensing, and get started with a trial, visit https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-viva/goals. Where You Can Learn More About Viva Goals Microsoft Viva Goals Microsoft Viva Goals bring purpose and alignment to the employee experience Microsoft's Vetri Vellore on helping employees see their impact Focus and Alignment: How Microsoft uses OKRs to achieve business goals Why hybrid work makes OKRs more essential than ever eBook: Engage Your Employees to Achieve Powerful Business Outcomes About the Microsoft Viva suite Microsoft Viva How to enable a digital employee experience with Microsoft Viva
