Anna Chu

What Transitioning to the Cloud Means for IT Organizational Structures

Anna Chu

in Thought Leadership

, 02-01-2017

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While many companies are still in the process of transitioning products to the cloud, early adopters face a new challenge—what does a best-in-class, cloud-enabled IT organization look like?

Companies with fully-deployed
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Avi Sujeeth

replied to Anna Chu

, 11-28-2017

This conversation is super interesting. The approach that's been suggested appears disruptive to an IT organization. I've seen organizations step into this through an "intrapreneurship" approach with a shared service organization.

I'll take Off
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Skills Gap in IT - Technical or Soft Skills?

Anna Chu

in Thought Leadership

, 08-08-2016

As some of you may have noticed, earlier this year the Microsoft team conducted research to find out what is top of mind for IT Professionals today, particularly how organizations and IT roles have changed and adapted to the cloud. Over the next couple o
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Benjamin Elias

replied to Anna Chu

, 09-07-2017

Am I interpreting this correctly @Anna Chu - ITIs think soft skills are very necessary (76%) for their own advancement. Yet in the view of ITDMs, soft skills aren't really necessary for the ITIs to have (42%), and they'd be better off developing soft
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Case Study #1: Adoption as a Marketing Campaign

Anna Chu

in Driving Adoption

, 04-05-2017

Company Size: ~750 Employees

Industry: Manufacturing

The Approach

This organization took a unique approach to end-user adoption and deployed new products like a marketing campaign—starting with end users’ needs. The IT organization first went to end use
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Chandler Milne

replied to Anna Chu

, 08-17-2017

@Kendall England There are certainly solutions that can bring a 1:1 learning and adoption experience without the 1:1 price tag and in the EDU space you're probably eligible for discounts. I suppose organizations should be asking themselves A) what va
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Where Does End-User Adoption Start?

Anna Chu

in Driving Adoption

, 04-03-2017

This April, we're putting the focus on conversations in the Driving Adoption community. We kick off the discussion with insights from Microsoft research we conducted on IT Pros.

Where Does End-User Adoption Start?

End-user adoption is clearly top of m
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Sarah Okey

replied to Anna Chu

, 06-05-2017

@Sharon Liu just posted about driving adoption by first asking the users what their needs are. She talks about how successful adoption within organizations often happens when the user experiences have been identified prior to rolling any new product
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Calculating Bandwidth

Anna Chu

in Office 365

, 05-22-2017

Last week, we discussed ways to tune your network performance to improve end-user experience and speed up connectivity.

Network and migration planning is a crucial step prior to migrating to Office 365 to allow you to verify and test the estimated bandw
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Dean Gross

replied to Anna Chu

, 06-01-2017

@Kelly Jones your network team may find this helpful

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