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Alax Cox shares how Microsoft Copilot is reshaping productivity, compliance, and workflow automation for business and tech professionals. Learn practical strategies for maximising ROI, overcoming adoption barriers, and building robust AI governance. This episode delivers actionable insights for leaders and teams integrating AI into daily operations.
🎙️ Full Show Notes
https://www.microsoftinnovationpodcast.com/770
🔑 What you’ll learn
- Evaluate Copilot’s ROI and time-saving potential for your organisation
- Implement a structured Copilot onboarding and training programme
- Address compliance and governance challenges in AI adoption
- Leverage agentic AI for workflow automation and business processes
- Build effective AI governance boards and policies
👉 Highlights
- “Copilot has completely transformed my entire direction as far as my focus around the 365 stack.”
- “Microsoft has a much bigger story to tell. As part of that evangelist for 365, we all now have a better story to tell.”
- “If a person is drawing a salary of 70,000 US dollars a year, they only have to save themselves 54 minutes a month in order to recoup that value.”
- “83% of their people see that it saves them about 29% of their day.”
- “We run a jumpstart programme for Copilot to help organisations keep going with Copilot.”
- “By the time they're done, they're like, that's going to save us so much time just in Teams, maybe just in Outlook, maybe in Excel.”
- “There's a side of Copilot that people don't even realise exists, and that's the whole agentic side of Copilot.”
- “A big question of compliance and governance, which is why I tell clients, you can use ChatGPT, but where does it go from there?”
- “Copilot is about the data. Copilot is not going to access anything that you don't already have access to.”
- “Start off with a pilot group. I always start off with executives that probably have access to everything anyway.”
- “Treat it as if it's an assistant. Give it very detailed instructions when you're working with it.”
- “You can't, you're not going to hurt anything. Just look Copilot, just do it.”
🧰 Mentioned
- Microsoft Copilot - https://copilot.microsoft.com/
- Microsoft 365 - https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365
- Teams - https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-teams/download-app
- SharePoint - https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/sharepoint/collaboration
✅Keywords
copilot, microsoft 365, ai, productivity, compliance, governance, workflow automation, agentic ai, roi, onboarding, training, purview, teams
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Thanks for listening 🚀 - Mark Smith
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