Business-Driven 365

A blog full of actionable ideas for quickly transforming your business with Microsoft 365.

Don’t Implement Microsoft Teams! (Apply It Instead)

So…you’re not too impressed with how Teams worked out in your company.

The good news is you aren’t alone and all is not lost because the problem isn’t with Teams, it’s with your implementation.

While I can’t say for sure what percentage of executives and...

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Radical Improvement for Mom & Pop Companies With Field Workers

Small mom & pop businesses and city governments with field workers stand to gain much more (and much faster) with Teams and Microsoft 365 than do larger organizations.

This is because they’re generally starting from a less advanced technical state (higher percentage of improvement...

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Our Small Business Just Got Microsoft 365 and Teams. What Now?

I’ve heard this question many times since leaving the corporate world and working with businesses that are hundreds of times smaller than my former mega-corporation. I’ll try to quickly answer that question.

Oftentimes, a Managed Service Provider upgrades a small business to...

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Why Leaders Should Implement “Point of Use” for Office Workers using Microsoft Teams

Computers have always had cutting edge functionality and use potential. Office workers taking advantage of that functionality potential, not so much!

For decades, computer functionality and use potential has far outpaced the skills and workplace processes in office environments. With Microsoft...

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One Simple Action will Guarantee Your Success with Teams

Enjoying success and long-term efficiency with Microsoft Teams is very easy and can be 100% guaranteed with one simple action.

I have worked to implement Teams in workgroups and organizations since it was introduced to the business world in 2017 and I can tell you that one simple action –...

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A Battle Worth Choosing

Eisenhower didn’t say, “Hey guys, we’re going over to France and invading in the wee hours tomorrow. Let me know if you want to go.”

D-day would have been a miserable failure if he had, of course. Likewise, if you make implementation of Microsoft Teams optional for...

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Leveraging Teams’ Exponential Value (Part 1)

If you’ve tried Teams in your organization and you’re underwhelmed by the results, you did it wrong!

The value of Teams grows exponentially over time and with heavy usage. If you haven’t experienced that exponential growth in value after a couple of months, some of the following...

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Acres of Diamonds: How Leaders are Overlooking Riches Under Their Noses

Civil War soldier Russell Conwell was asked to give a speech to the 10-year reunion of his unit. He gave the famous “Acres of Diamonds” speech, which he then turned into the well-known classic book by the same name.

Acres of Diamonds is a reference to the farm owned by Lamar, a young...

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Do Your Employees Check Their Efficiency at the Office Door Every Morning?

Left to their own devices, people naturally avoid practices that are high energy and low reward if there are better options available.

People ditched walking for horses. Then, they ditched horses for cars. After that, they even ditched cars if Uber made more sense for their specific...

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Team Chats to have "Urgent" Feature

Microsoft just announced they are adding an “urgent” function to Team Chat during June and July. Since early adopting organizations are encouraging migration from the more manual, and less transparent, email and voicemail messages, this will be a great feature…so long as your...

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