Microsoft Innovation Podcast

FULL SHOW NOTEShttps://podcast.nz365guy.com/205A brief introduction about Stefan’s family background and where he lives What he does during his free and his hobbies Became a Microsoft MVP on December 1, 2019 Explains what Stefan found different from being an MVP, and what he expected? Stefan’s journey to becoming a Microsoft Business Applications MVP A discussion about Stefan’s involvement with Dynamics CRM How Stefan started working for the User group community – Dutch PowerApps & Flow User Group and CEProNLShares his thoughts about the POWER of COMMUNITY A discussion about what area Stefan spends more of his time, his focus and his role Challenges that came across during Stefan’s journey Stefan’s recommendations and advice to people who are wanting to shift from a Functional to Architectural role Stefan’s method or system to keep his knowledge and skills up to date Stefan shares his thoughts around running a community during COVID19  Discusses how they maintain the community connection  Shares his opinion about the state of Business Applications in the MarketMicrosoft 365 Copilot Adoption is a Microsoft Press book for leaders and consultants. It shows how to identify high-value use cases, set guardrails, enable champions, and measure impact, so Copilot sticks. Practical frameworks, checklists, and metrics you can use this month. Get the book: https://bit.ly/CopilotAdoptionSupport the showIf you want to get in touch with me, you can message me here on Linkedin.Thanks for listening 🚀 - Mark Smith

FULL SHOW NOTEShttps://podcast.nz365guy.com/204A Brief Introduction about Sunay Vaishnav’s life – the current city where he lives and his home city’s famous for How Sunay spends his time outside of work  Share Sunay’s story about the changes and how COVID19 affected his life  Talks about MBAS event – the first major virtual event for Microsoft The positive impact of working from home Sunay’s career journey and what he is currently working on at Microsoft How Sunay got started and what lead him to his current position within the community What is Power Automate and Sunay’s vision for it The level of engagement Sunay sees for Power Automate  Discusses the short term and long-term roadmap of Power Automate Who is their target customer for Power Automate? Explains their plans and his thoughts when it comes to Flow Designer or Maker Experience, as well as the validation Test Flows on Power Automate Power Automate features:            API Flows / UI Flows            Adaptative Cards            Approval Attachment            Teams Microsoft 365 Copilot Adoption is a Microsoft Press book for leaders and consultants. It shows how to identify high-value use cases, set guardrails, enable champions, and measure impact, so Copilot sticks. Practical frameworks, checklists, and metrics you can use this month. Get the book: https://bit.ly/CopilotAdoptionSupport the showIf you want to get in touch with me, you can message me here on Linkedin.Thanks for listening 🚀 - Mark Smith

FULL SHOW NOTEShttps://podcast.nz365guy.com/203Meet Tomasz Poszytek from Warsaw, Poland  Tomasz talks about his family and describes his hometown  How Tomasz handles working from home during lockdown due to the COVID19 crisis  With the COVID19 crisis, what Tomasz sees in the next few months when it comes to community events  Lessons learnt from running a productive event using virtual events  A discussion about how they manage these events  How Tomasz facilitates these events making it sure that they have answered all the questions Any problems have encountered during a presentation and how they handled it  Tomasz area of expertise when it comes to Power Platform  Became a Microsoft MVP in November 2019  The value and the best thing about being a Microsoft MVP Microsoft 365 Copilot Adoption is a Microsoft Press book for leaders and consultants. It shows how to identify high-value use cases, set guardrails, enable champions, and measure impact, so Copilot sticks. Practical frameworks, checklists, and metrics you can use this month. Get the book: https://bit.ly/CopilotAdoptionSupport the showIf you want to get in touch with me, you can message me here on Linkedin.Thanks for listening 🚀 - Mark Smith

FULL SHOW NOTEShttps://podcast.nz365guy.com/202A Brief Introduction about Emma D'Arcy's personal, educational and career Background How Emma spends her time during her free time and her hobbies  Talks about how Emma started working with technology  Emma's community involvement and her contributions  An introduction about Emma's brand as TatooedCRMGirl  Tips and advice Emma can give people who want to build their name brand   A conversation about how much does create content play into Emma's brandDiscussion about how Emma started working in ClickDimensions   Why culture is the most important for Emma  Shares about her involvement in Marketing  The best qualities of a great event in marketing  Learn about “The Dunder Mifflin Project” live streaming  How Emma able to pull up massive events from start to handle attendees  Learn more about the different community – Scottish Summit, PowerApps Philly and PowerApps Boston  Discussion about the best thing about community  Shares her ideas about running a user group  How Emma coach and encourage new and existing speakers in a user groupTalks about how Emma encourages speakers to get involved in a community event  Emma talks about the MB200 and MB600 exam Microsoft 365 Copilot Adoption is a Microsoft Press book for leaders and consultants. It shows how to identify high-value use cases, set guardrails, enable champions, and measure impact, so Copilot sticks. Practical frameworks, checklists, and metrics you can use this month. Get the book: https://bit.ly/CopilotAdoptionSupport the showIf you want to get in touch with me, you can message me here on Linkedin.Thanks for listening 🚀 - Mark Smith

FULL SHOW NOTEShttps://podcast.nz365guy.com/201Life introduction about Sukrut Parab – lives in Los Angeles with his family Talks Sukrut’s journey from India to Los Angeles  Career background of Sukrut, how he started working with Dynamics  Advice to people wanting to work away from their hometown A conversation about Sukrut’s journey inside AX to Finance and Operations of Dynamics 365 The key lessons Sukrut’s has learnt on his journey that helps in his career growth Discussion about the importance of industry knowledge when it comes to product implementation How Sukrut focus from one area while maintaining his skills and knowledge Sukrut’s thoughts about people migrating On-Prem to Cloud Talks about Sukrut’s journey to becoming a Microsoft MVP – how he got awarded Sukrut’s MVP contributions to the communityMicrosoft 365 Copilot Adoption is a Microsoft Press book for leaders and consultants. It shows how to identify high-value use cases, set guardrails, enable champions, and measure impact, so Copilot sticks. Practical frameworks, checklists, and metrics you can use this month. Get the book: https://bit.ly/CopilotAdoptionSupport the showIf you want to get in touch with me, you can message me here on Linkedin.Thanks for listening 🚀 - Mark Smith

FULL SHOW NOTEShttps://podcast.nz365guy.com/200The origin story of Stuart Ridout and his career background Family background and activities they do together The changes happening to Stuart’s everyday life with the current world situation – COVID19 crisis Stuart’s journey working with Microsoft Talks about Stuart’s role and responsibilities as a Customer Success Manager  What Microsoft Teams is and its importance – Chris Slemp’s Taming TeamsBenefits, effectiveness, and advantage of creating chat channels – Champions Program How Microsoft Teams work with PowerApps and Power Automate The key things Stuart thinks makes his time more efficient and productive using Power Automate The role of a Citizen developer in building/linking Microsoft Teams to Power Platform Explains how Microsoft Teams and Power Platform are being used – examples and experiences Talks about the features and other applications within Microsoft teams The future Stuart sees with the integration of PowerApps and Power Automate with Microsoft Teams What everyone should know about Power Automate The feedback from the community with all these tools Microsoft 365 Copilot Adoption is a Microsoft Press book for leaders and consultants. It shows how to identify high-value use cases, set guardrails, enable champions, and measure impact, so Copilot sticks. Practical frameworks, checklists, and metrics you can use this month. Get the book: https://bit.ly/CopilotAdoptionSupport the showIf you want to get in touch with me, you can message me here on Linkedin.Thanks for listening 🚀 - Mark Smith

FULL SHOW NOTEShttps://podcast.nz365guy.com/199A brief introduction about André Arnaud de Calavon  Talks about how the normal celebration of King's day looks like How the COVID19 affected André’s life and Netherland’s community As a Microsoft MVP for 6years and André’s area of specialization André’s journey to becoming a Microsoft MVP How André started his career Changes André had seen with the Dynamics and his experience with the product A discussion about André’s experience and his role as a Product Manager and in managing ISV solutions Talks about their new product and who can use it The impact of becoming an MVP on André’s career André’s strengths when it comes to his MVP community contributions What André’s likes the most becoming a Microsoft MVP Microsoft 365 Copilot Adoption is a Microsoft Press book for leaders and consultants. It shows how to identify high-value use cases, set guardrails, enable champions, and measure impact, so Copilot sticks. Practical frameworks, checklists, and metrics you can use this month. Get the book: https://bit.ly/CopilotAdoptionSupport the showIf you want to get in touch with me, you can message me here on Linkedin.Thanks for listening 🚀 - Mark Smith

FULL SHOW NOTEShttps://podcast.nz365guy.com/198Interesting facts about Srikumar Nair’s lifeHow Srikumar started working with Microsoft  Srikumar’s involvement with XRM, CRM and CDS  A discussion about Srikumar’s role in Microsoft as Principal Group Program Manager  Introduction to XRM and CDS  Discusses the difference between XRM and CDS  Srikumar’s shares his views on what a low-code no-code is  What Srikumar is seeing when it comes to resource consumption    Discussions on the architecture patterns and the changes happening concerning the CDS environment  A conversation about the sales applications and the changes  CDS licencing when it comes to Platform Capacity – API and Storage  How they work with the AZURE team when it comes to the growth happening on the Power Platform, and how are they integrated into different parts of Microsoft  Srikumar’s journey from Blob storage to Cosmos DB and the lessons learnt   How Srikumar’s team make sure their customer gets the right value of the product when it comes to the new licensing that is coming  An introduction about the Team Member enforcement  Talks about ISV considerations and how they make sure that the Power Platform is the tool where they can build their applications Microsoft 365 Copilot Adoption is a Microsoft Press book for leaders and consultants. It shows how to identify high-value use cases, set guardrails, enable champions, and measure impact, so Copilot sticks. Practical frameworks, checklists, and metrics you can use this month. Get the book: https://bit.ly/CopilotAdoptionSupport the showIf you want to get in touch with me, you can message me here on Linkedin.Thanks for listening 🚀 - Mark Smith

FULL SHOW NOTEShttps://podcast.nz365guy.com/197Family life and career background of Mohammad Reza Dorrani Talks about Reza’s hobbies outside Power Platform Reza’s hometown and what made Reza move to Houston, Texas Became a Microsoft MVP in December 2019 A discussion about Reza’s area of specialization as a Microsoft Business Applications MVP Talks about Reza’s journey to becoming a Microsoft MVP The changes happened to Reza’s life since becoming part of the Houston User group Final process involved in getting Reza into the MVP Program Reza’s contribution to the Microsoft community Shares his Microsoft Flow All-Star award experience Learning experiences being in a forum  Reza’s motivation on why he wanted to become a Microsoft Business Applications MVP  Advantages and disadvantages of becoming a Microsoft MVP Reza’s goal and what he wants to achieve in the next few years as a Microsoft MVP Microsoft 365 Copilot Adoption is a Microsoft Press book for leaders and consultants. It shows how to identify high-value use cases, set guardrails, enable champions, and measure impact, so Copilot sticks. Practical frameworks, checklists, and metrics you can use this month. Get the book: https://bit.ly/CopilotAdoptionSupport the showIf you want to get in touch with me, you can message me here on Linkedin.Thanks for listening 🚀 - Mark Smith

FULL SHOW NOTEShttps://podcast.nz365guy.com/196Amit Sivan’s origin, current location, family and hobbies   A discussion about Amit’s journey to working with Microsoft   Learn more about Amit’s role and responsibilities as a Dynamics 365 Sales applications  A conversation about Amit’s team’s general focus  Discusses the demand for Dynamics Business Apps within Israel when it comes to consumer perspective  The new features involved in Dynamics 365 Sales applications  Describes what Dynamics 365 Sales Application is and how is it growing  Amit’s thoughts on Digital Selling and its new features  Available tools for the in-sales people  The benefits of Digital Selling    Talks about Sales Acceleration and Sequences   The types of sales scenarios Amit is looking at   A conversation about Sales Insights   What you need to know about Conversation Intelligence   Meaning of Omni Channel and Sales   A discussion about Forecasting and Pipeline Analytics   Amit’s thoughts on Mobility from a Sales Perspective  The future of Dynamics 365 Sales Application  Discussions about the opportunities for ISVs to build on Dynamics 365 for SalesResources available for everyoneMicrosoft 365 Copilot Adoption is a Microsoft Press book for leaders and consultants. It shows how to identify high-value use cases, set guardrails, enable champions, and measure impact, so Copilot sticks. Practical frameworks, checklists, and metrics you can use this month. Get the book: https://bit.ly/CopilotAdoptionSupport the showIf you want to get in touch with me, you can message me here on Linkedin.Thanks for listening 🚀 - Mark Smith