Industries worldwide are undergoing rapid transformation, driven by technological advancements and changing economic landscapes. As we stand at the precipice of an AI-infused future, it’s crucial to get Copilot ready.
Here’s why:
The AI Landscape
The time and opportunity are both ‘NOW’. From the macro environment to the alignment with business objectives. This is further underpinned by the rapidly increasing user adoption and appetite for AI tools; the landscape is poised for rapid growth and opportunities in the AI space.
- Technology Inflection Point: AI technology is at an inflection point, poised to revolutionize how we work and interact.
- Widespread Adoption: ChatGPT, for instance, reached 100 million users in just three months, highlighting the explosive rate of adoption of AI-powered tools.
- Real Impact: AI is a significant contributor to the exponential growth of technology and its contribution to GDP.
Microsoft 365 Copilot: Unleashing User Value
The rate of business adoption of AI is dependent on the willingness of users to adopt the technology. This in turn is dependent on users recognising the productivity benefits they can leverage. All trends show that this is becoming far less of a barrier and more of an appetite that productivity users have for AI.
- User Adoption: An internal Microsoft study published in Oct 2023 revealed the value users derive from Copilot. In this study 47% admitted that access to Copilot would influence their choice of employer.i
- Role-Specific Benefits: Copilot enhances productivity across roles and hierarchies. As of 2023 leaders were twice as likely to boost productivity via use of AI vs cutting headcount. At the same time 70% of employees are willing to delegate work to AI.ii
- Free Lunch: Well, not literally, but 77% of surveyed CoPilot users said they would forego a free weekly lunch rather than lose access to CoPilot.iii
The Copilot Journey
Every journey starts with a step. Reaching a goal is often achieved by realising some early wins that you can build upon along the way to a more comprehensive, enterprise solution.
- Copilot (Free): Start with the foundational productivity capabilities included with basic licenses that leverage current web data alongside Commercial Data Protection (included w/ Entra ID)that enables tasks such as:
– Information summary and aggregation
– Drafting emails
– Generating Images
– Get answers for specific complex questions
- Microsoft Copilot 365: For a nominal cost, extend capabilities with additional value-additions such as:
– enterprise-grade Data Protection
– Graph Grounding
– Integration with Microsoft Apps
– Copilot Studio
– Access to web data and permissioned company information.
Getting Prepared
Prepare your environment for a better Copilot for Microsoft 365 Experience.
Implement good content management practices to prepare and secure your organisational data for Copilot. This includes reviewing data governance policies and a focus on preventing content oversharing.
Unlock productivity and unleash creativity. integration with a range of natural language models such as the web, large language models, Microsoft Graph (Your Data) and Microsoft 365 Apps.
Drive innovation and business transformation for customers around the world with Copilot for Microsoft 365. Tap into the millions of Microsoft customers and bring generative AI to the productivity suite they know and trust, setting them up for success with pre-sales and post-sales support alongside best-of-breed protection and education. Take innovation to a new level and amplify the capabilities of Copilot with the power of plugins and Microsoft Graph.
Engagement Plan
Potential to tap into up to 190M seats with Copilot for Microsoft 365. Leverage our 5-step plan to enable you to engage early. Collaborate with your Microsoft Partner Team and leverage these resources and ultimately secure not only the revenue, but a long-standing lucrative customer relationship.
M365 Copilot Workshops Are Available
There are 3 workshops available to you based on increasing your preparedness and competence for the stages 3 and 4 referenced above. These are:
Stage 3: Inspire and Design:
1a) Readiness Assessment. The outcome of this workshop includes:
- Customer readiness scorecard
- Recommendations to address gaps
1b) Art of Possible + Value Discovery
- High value use cases
- Implementation plan
Stage 4: Realise Value
1a) Adoption Accelerator. The outcome of this workshop includes:
- Champ community established
- 2 – 3 use cases activated1b) Art of Possible + Value Discovery
Let’s Get Started!
It is really easy to learn more about how to embrace the AI revolution in order to take full advantage of the associated opportunity.
Sources:
i PRELIMINARY findings from Survey of MS internal users of Microsoft 365 Copilot, n-size 155 Oct 9, 2023.
iii Survey of Copilot for Microsoft 365 Early Access Program users, October 2023.
