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Artificial intelligence is being blamed for making experienced workers obsolete. The rather more uncomfortable truth is that rapidly changing industries have always favoured people who can learn quickly, adapt freely and abandon ideas that no longer work. AI has not created that reality. It has merely made it much harder to ignore. There is an […]
As Microsoft continue to improve their branding story, aided by increasingly useful AI tooling, I revisit the topic and look at the overdue PowerPoint updates
Why Every AI Agent Needs a Manager For most of the modern corporate era, organisations have operated on a simple assumption. People perform work and technology supports them. Human beings make decisions, exercise judgement, take responsibility and are held accountable for outcomes. Systems, applications and software tools provide information, facilitate communication and automate routine tasks, […]
A chance repost by the ever insightful Ami Diamond reminded me that Microsoft has, in its wisdom, ‘centralised’ it’s branding tools in SharePoint Brand Centre and Brand Kit. At first glance this feels like Microsoft creating two products to solve the same problem. In reality they target different audiences and, while there is overlap, they […]
We often want to tell our AI to use a preferred or definitive website as the grounding source for certain types of queries.
It seems like such a simple thing. This is why it isn’t and what to do about it.
First steps: enabling skill.md capabilities in SharePoint, installing your first skills and where to use them.
You have got your head around Skills Files and even created some using the Starter Kit. Now you want to get it out there so the benefits happen at scale. This article gives you some simple guidance.
Having already published an introductory article on the upcoming #SkillsFiles feature in #SharePoint (and how they will provide context for #AI to drive #governance, #process and #content management) I felt a need to provide some practical tools. Hence this starter pack.
SharePoint is getting Skills Files – markdown instructions that tell AI how your organisation works. From a KM perspective, this is gold dust: consistent, contextual, and a practical way to encode organisational meta-knowledge. Let’s dive deeper…
Add shortcut to OneDrive seems like such a nice idea; a useful alternative to the oft-maligned Sync function for those needing desktop access to their files.
But all is not well in Wonderland
To build a great content management solution in SharePoint you should use Content Types. Simon Hudson and Mats Warnolf tell you how and why.
I use Microsoft Planner and To Do for lightweight project management, preferring its simplicity. The announcement of a unified Planner experience merging Planner, To Do, and Project, had me spooked.
This blog unpicks the impacts for the ordinary user.
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