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Artificial intelligence is becoming a core part of daily work across industries. As organisations adopt Microsoft Copilot and other AI-powered tools, a common challenge emerges: how do you enable legitimate professional use of sensitive information while maintaining strong Responsible AI controls?
This offers a practical guide to adjusting the protection when needed.
A Good Practice Guide The biggest mistake people make with Copilot Notebooks is treating them as a place to write a report. Or that they are anything like a OneNote notebook page (even though they are available in OneNote). I made both mistakes. The most effective approach is to treat them as a knowledge curation […]
Managing one brand in Microsoft 365 is relatively straightforward. Managing several brands in the same tenant is where the architectural decisions start to matter.
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…
