Re-Thinking Return on Investment for Office 365
Re-thinking return-on-investment for Office 365, because “saving minutes” is a useless approach. An ebook I wrote for Silverside.
Why No Lessons Learned Microsoft?
Last week saw the first major service disruption to Office 365 in several years. A severe storm in Texas impacted the cooling system at the US South Central data centre, which resulted in protective systems in the data centre switching into containment mode and shutting down servers to […]
More Human Moments from Microsoft
After a pretty good run, Microsoft Office 365 had a major outage in San Antonio TX this week. A lightning storm during the night caused a power spike in the US South Central data centre, which negatively affected the cooling system in one part of the data centre, […]
Excel for Mac Plus Excel MVPs
Excel Table Talk Episode 6 Back in the early 1990s, the first client project that paid decent money (NZ$25 per hour, which my client described as “charging like a bull”) required the use of a massive spreadsheet to analyse cost flows in a small manufacturing firm. I spent […]
New Computer – 2014 vs. 2018
Several years ago I had the opportunity to help the husband and wife team of a small business go from one computer to two new laptops. They had shared one PC for a long time, and it took hours and hours to separate what was his and what […]
Microsoft Whiteboard
While a white background is a common starting experience in Microsoft’s applications, the specific capabilities of each tool both create and constrain what you can use it for. Word’s white background is for words, sentences, paragraphs and pages. Excel’s white background is for numbers and calculations and data […]
Workplace Analytics for Teams
In the chapter on Running Team Projects in my book Re-Imagining Productive Work with Office 365 (2016), I made the following “wouldn’t it be cool if” comment (page 197): Delve Analytics reports on an individual level about the effectiveness and efficiency of the meetings that the individual was […]
Marijn Somers on Change (and Progress) with Office 365
Earlier in the week I suggested we should use a different word instead of change. Marijn commented about his slide deck above, presented at SharePoint Saturday in Cambridge in September 2017. Read the whole deck, but I’m making an especial call out re Marijn’s argument around “progress” instead […]
Who Switched the Drawers?
I have 21 drawers by my office desk. These hold stationery, paper, books to read, pens and pencils, pocket knifes, old thumbdrives, book manuscripts, keys, cables, in-progress projects, client-specific items, old journals I haven’t scanned yet, charging adapters, and much more. Each drawer has a particular focus, and […]
Backlash Against Group Chat
Group chat offers a particular approach to communication between people, characterised by rapid fire interaction, short sentences or thought fragments, and a fun and lively tone. This approach has several implications, such as: The conversation space tends toward chaos, disjointedness, and dis-organisation. People weigh in on multiple, simultaneous […]
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