If you have an Office 365 deployment coming up soon or you have already deployed but adoption is lagging, here are some activities to drive interaction.

​1.  Start a friendly competition

• See who can build the best SharePoint page for their department.  Modern SharePoint is incredibly easy to edit and has app parts that many are unaware of: call to action buttons, count down timers, Forms, Stream, personalized content, and more.  Royalty-free images and icons can be added via web searches from within the SharePoint editing experience.  If you need to spread some inspiration, check out the SharePoint Look Book.

1. Provide just in time learning

• ​Adopting a new tool or process in a few months?  Now is the time to start planning - but not yet time to start training end users.  Timing can be tricky, but ideally, it’s early enough to prevent user errors and late enough that employees can go back to their desks and try it out for themselves.

A key factor in the success or failure of a business is the quality and consistency of its processes.

If a company produces the best widget on the market but its fulfillment process is broken or its customer service department cannot effectively resolve issues, how likely is it that the company’s new customers will become repeat customers?

Given the importance of effective, repeatable processes, we might expect companies would be laser focused on ensuring the quality of their processes.  It’s surprising to learn that this is often not the case.  Many times, what a company’s management believes is going on – and what is actually happening in the trenches – are sometimes two very different things.  The hard truth is that left to themselves, even carefully designed and implemented processes tend to morph over time in response to an evolving business environment.
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So how can your organization get and keep a handle on its processes?