Microsoft Innovation Podcast

FULL SHOW NOTEShttps://podcast.nz365guy.com/145Vivek Bavishi's background – originally from India, discusses things you can do in India, good food in India and the reason why he moved to the US Talks about the Marketing program course Shares his thoughts about the MVP ProgramDiscusses the company he works for – Regal Beloit What he does as a Marketing Manager As the new model of MVP – the generation of people who just wants to get things doneBavishi's journey and how he managed to become part of the MVP ProgramWhere That_API_Guy name came from? Shares his views about being a consultant within his own company How he started working with PowerApps Discusses his contribution to the communityTalks about the changes that happened after becoming an MVP Power Platform and focus in his current roleMicrosoft 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/144A brief introduction about Daniel, Jeff and Rob’s personal & family background. Where they live & how they spend their time when not working.   Discussions about their journey to Microsoft  Introduction to the Catalyst program  Discusses the history of Microsoft Catalyst and Methodology  Importance of Modern Business Engagement  Relationship between Design Thinking, Business Decision Maker and Microsoft Catalyst – taking requirements from the customer.   The impact of Catalyst on business  Discusses the four pillars of Microsoft Catalyst – Inspire, Design, empower and Achieve  Understanding its importance with Partners in modern business engagement   Talks about the resources used in the methodology  The type of search things they need to better understand the building blocks around customer journey mapping, empathy mapping, and wireframe   Is Catalyst part of the business?  Understanding the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation   The importance of embracing these technologies for functional consultants and the impact on their business  What are the specific sets of steps the Catalyst programs provide?  RESOURCESBill and Melinda Gates foundation   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/143A brief introduction on Shawn’s – growing up and living in Florida for the last 30 years & being born outside of Chicago. Shaun talks about his education  Shawn’s day working in the Power Platform Dynamics Arena Shawn's focus on field service and customer service  Shawn’s thoughts on getting PowerApps for Field service Is the product set big enough to just chose one thing? Shawn’s recommendation on choosing the right product. What he loves to do the most. Field service and customers service or Sales? Discusses IoT Practical integration to Field service  How to tell if preventive maintenance is needed  Being an MVP for 3 years – and how his journey started 8 years ago CRM Lady – Anne Stanton Talks about his passion for doing Podcasts Events Shawn's attended – Orlando summit, Ignite broadcasting service and 20mins on PowerApps and field service 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/142A brief introduction about Aaron’s personal background –originally from Maryland and lives in Seattle, WA What Aaron does when he’s not working – play with kids, skiing and travelling The Founder of icommunicate – history and origin Co-founder of Invoke system and Crelate (from creating relationship) Key highlights of his 3 years working at Microsoft  Talks about the feature set in CRM 1.0 in 2003 The reason why 1.2 was released the same year Shares Aaron's thoughts about Salesforce while building a product Lessons learnt from working with a big company – Microsoft Discusses the true story of CRM 2.0  Shares Aaron's thoughts about being involved in a powerful product line at Microsoft and one of the core pillars of the business. 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/141Sergio's personal life – lives in Monterey, Mexico and shares his views on the three most important cities and popular food in Mexico.  Discusses how popular Microsoft PowerApps and Flow, Power Platform, Dynamics 365 are in Mexico  The first Dynamics 365 CRM MVP in Mexico  Sergio’s journey to becoming an MVP – 2 years as an MVP  Discusses the three significant events that happened for Dynamics 365 in 2019 – D365 Saturday – Mexico City, Mexico in April, Dynamics 365 Saturday – Monterrey, Mexico in May and D365 Saturday – Guadalajara, Mexico June  Sergio’s objective and goals when it comes to Dynamics 365 events  How successful is the Dynamics 365 event?  Are Microsoft Partners in Mexico doing Dynamics 365? How he discovered the MVP Program and talks about the person who guided him to become an MVP  Discusses his contributions to the Dynamics 365 community   What project he is working on at present, his focus & and his current teamWho does he see in the Spanish community as a future MVP   Who inspires him to be betterThe mistake he kept doing over and over again? 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/140A brief introduction about Dileep’s life – originally comes from India  Educational background, career background & how he got into Microsoft. Dileep’s thoughts about Microsoft’s PowerApps Portals going public An overview of PowerApps Portals – the importance, application and ways to improve its performance Talks about the changes happening on Dynamics and PowerApps Portals – when and how people will be able to see these changes Discusses how to differentiate between new and old portals Names the new features available A better understanding of why and how PowerApps Portals are licensed  What happens when people go over the usage limit –  will the portal stop working?  Dileep’s thoughts on the “Pay as you go” Azure model Explains/Clarification on how ‘ 24hours for unauthenticated users' works  Dileep explains what no-code and low code experiences are The future of PowerApps Portals licensing – when it comes to changes  Discusses the setup and configurations on how to make the Power platform simple PowerApps Component Framework in PowerApps Portals Talks about the plans on OneDrive file access and SharePoint file access via PowerApps Portals  Resources and training materials available for the community to access PowerApps Portals Specific forums for PowerApps Portals Answers some questions on Twitter.  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/139Megan talks about her personal life – living in the USA and what made her decide to come back to Chesterfield, England. Discusses her career background Her journey to becoming an MVP  Megan shares her thoughts on the reasons for becoming an MVP Discusses her discovery in writing a blogpost using emoji in CRM or Dynamics 365 and how it changed the way she visualizes the data and Dynamics Discusses effective strategies to create balanced work, community activities and personal life  Megan’s journey into Dynamics Things that helped her most with learning Flow Introduction to better understand Microsoft Forms Pro Talks about Capture and Attachment upload features of Microsoft Forms Pro Biggest three turning points of her life Resources Mentioned  Forms ProMicrosoft 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/138Jackie's personal background – born in Australia, moved to Indonesia – Nigeria – Thailand – Switzerland – Colorado and her home of Los AngelesWhy Jackie travelled at a young age and her favourite place An introduction about Six Sigma, also known as The Process Improvement OCM – Organizational Change Management How Jackie started working in Dynamics Talks about her experience working with an Offshore Team Discusses how she handles people in different time zones during scrum agile environments Explains techniques and strategies she uses when working remotely Cultural training and non-work-related code How they involve remote consultants to move into functional business requirements  Significant challenges in handling offshore teams and their solution in moving through these challenges  The importance of maintaining consistent Hitachi culture no matter where people are located  How Jackie got into change management and her own definition of change managementThe components of ADKAR  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/137A brief introduction about Malin’s life – lives in Oslo Area, Norway and talks about how she spends her time when she’s not working  Shares her journey into becoming an MVP  Talks about her educational and career background  The FIRST and ONLY MVP for Dynamics Talent  How long has she been working with Dynamics Talent?  Discusses projects around Microsoft Talent  Second to pass the MB6 898 Dynamics 365 Exam Talent Certification  What made her choose to work in Dynamics Talent and what she likes the most doing the Dynamics Talent work  Talks about her Blog – the 16 reasons why you should choose Talent Explains where her ideas are coming from when writing a Blog – How long does it take for her to write a post.  How she manages her user group Woman in Dynamics – where and how did it start  What advice she can tell people all over the world who are considering becoming a member of the user group  Advantages of creating a more traditional mixed group scenario   Malin’s thoughts on the MVP Program 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/136Saurabh’s brief introduction about his life – originally from India, presently residing in Seattle, WA, his family background and how he spends his time when not working. Career background, how did he start working in Microsoft 18 years ago When and how Saurabh got involved in Microsoft PowerApps How the program PowerApps Champions started, how it works, and how did it come together to what it is at present  Discusses Citizen Developer, Pro Developer, IT, COE, Community and PartnerTalks about the opportunities PowerApps provides to help people in their career How Azure ISV’s consider CDS, the opportunities that are available and the benefits they provide so that they can look at the journey of becoming a Power PlatformTalks about creating business valueHow Lauren Taylor discover PowerApps Link for Sameer’s first episode here.Sammer and Saurabh talk about 30 PowerApps Champion stories in 30mins. Presenter – Sameer Bhangar London Heathrow Airport – Samit Saini Tacoma Public School – PowerApps Youtube – Lauren Taylor  Autoglass – Autoglass (part of Belron group): call centre and field technician apps – Martin Lee – A PowerApps Software developer Hawkary Pharmaceuticals – Mohammad Alkhawaja – Sales and Marketing ManagerPresenter – Saurabh Pant Schlumberger – Hundreds of apps with thousands of monthly users James Matson – Pro Dev Inter Pipeline – Enabling bottom up innovation TransAlta – Hydro monitoring ....More stories are available under customer stories here.ResourcesMicrosoft 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