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
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The emergence of agentic AI challenges traditional employment-based taxation systems, risking a decoupling of economic growth from job creation. As automation increases productivity, societies must rethink revenue mechanisms to ensure public institutions are funded. The key lies in redefining the social contract to align prosperity with societal wellbeing, rather than solely relying on employment taxes.
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, […]
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.
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.
Microsoft’s Knowledge Agent rollout promises smarter content discovery across SharePoint. But for many SharePoint admins, the setup hits unexpected snags, especially if you’re strong in SharePoint but less familiar with PowerShell’s quirks. It would be handy to know where the troubles are and how to work around them.
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 was recently asked, how can I evangelise NetZero & sustainability yet be happy to use AI (mostly Copilot) many times per day given that data centres use above 2% -3% of the world’s electricity? While asked in jest, it’s a valid question, so Copilot and I did the maths… Energy use per query A […]
AI has become great at many things; it can even transform terrible handwriting into typewritten text. I share the journey of discovery from scrawl to near perfect transcription.
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There’s a need for Human In The Loop (HITL) when using AI Agents, but also consider the role of AIITL when people need supervision.
This blog describes a method for separating ‘proper’ templates from ‘kind-of’ templates in SharePoint libraries, using the file extension and some nifty column formatting courtesy of Microsoft Copilot.
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