There’s been lots of buzz around increasing collaboration and productivity in the workplace but identifying the barriers, breaking down silos, and coming up with new solutions is no easy task – especially with so many competing priorities between IT, employees, and leadership.
Sound familiar? Let’s dive in.
Here are six common challenges that may be holding back both your IT Team & Employees:
- No one can find the content or information they need on the intranet or in SharePoint.
- Your employees are using lots of different apps, systems, and platforms for online meetings, calls, chats, collaboration, and file sharing and storage. People are still collaborating by sending files back and forth via email. And storing their documents in OneDrive. And only using Microsoft Teams for online meetings. Oh, and using Zoom, Box, Google Docs, Slack, and more.
- Your IT team is not sure how to utilize all those apps, systems, and platforms. Neither do your employees. Plus, your help desk is overwhelmed trying to support it all – and answer all their user questions too. But everyone is trying their best.
- Your leadership wants the IT team to drive better collaboration. It’s a hot topic. Also, they want a better Employee Experience. But no one is quite sure what any of that really means.
- Your IT team is under pressure to roll out new security tools. And a governance plan. But both are complex initiatives, and no one is quite sure where to start. Also, they are too busy supporting the help desk.
- Your business processes and apps are out of date or broken. Power Automate and Power Apps seem like great tools to address those issues. Your IT team has it on the list. But they are too busy addressing #1–5.
If you said yes to any of those signs, you aren’t alone. But there’s never been a better time to remove the barriers to productivity and find a better way to work and collaborate – while leveraging the Microsoft 365 ecosystem including Microsoft Teams and SharePoint as well as Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI, Dynamics 365, and Azure and their explosion of new capabilities and features.
Say Goodbye to Confusion with a Strategy-First Approach
Gone are the days when the IT department just rolled out new applications and hoped people just figured out how to use them on their own – it just doesn’t work. Now, leaders and IT teams must make strategic decisions to empower their employees and create an optimum experience that gets everyone on the same page for secure, seamless collaboration, communication, and productivity with a new mindset.
Plus, with a strategy-first approach, you’ll help alleviate the burden on your IT team and help desk by empowering your employees with the right applications, processes, and guidance to do their best work.
How We Can Help
Our team can help your organization connect the dots to unify your technology and business goals, find new ways to leverage SharePoint, Microsoft Teams, the Power Platform, and Microsoft security and compliance tools to reduce application redundancy, update your intranet, digitize and fix broken processes, modernize legacy systems and apps, and develop an equitable governance and security plan – while keeping your people at the center to drive real culture change and adoption.
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Ready to get started? Learn how how Xgility can help strategically plan and implement solutions to help drive a significant change in your organization’s efficiency, collaboration, and productivity. As a Microsoft Gold Partner with vast experience under our belts, we are ready to help.