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M365 Tools and Places

Tool Kit Places

Any tool, Any time as appropriate

Analyze
Excel Power-BI Lists

Produce
Artifacts
OneDrive Visio Word Pages Teams Yammer

Interact
Calendar People Skype Teams

Sites Stream
Present
PowerPoint Sway

Structure
Work
One Note Planner Project ToDo Outlook Bing

The Representative Tools and Places in Office 365 that RealFoundations uses to Work Out Loud. Updated March 2019

apply what they know to their business today and in the RealFoundations (RF) has created a robust WOL ecosys-
future. tem within its instance of O365. RF has adopted tools
and places within the MS cloud-based system as its
Implementing WOL Technology ‘space’ for working out loud. The firm’s 400-plus employ-
WOL requires the right technology infrastructure. The ees in nine offices worldwide work out loud every day—
organization needs to move emails, chats, meetings, it’s just how they operate. They share and/or collaborate
files, plans and other content into an enterprise social on different types of content (documents, photos, vid-
collaboration tool. Not surprisingly, the demand for eos, URLs, conversations), conduct advanced searches
these tools is growing. The global market for enterprise (e.g., using Bing for Business to find knowledge across
messaging and collaboration solutions was expected Yammer, Teams, SharePoint, Stream Video and Outlook)
to reach $2.4 billion in 2018, up nearly 12 percent from and utilize social network functionality (like, comment,
the prior year, and is forecast to hit $3.2 billion by 2021, share, etc.). The graphic below illustrates the tools that
according to International Data Corp., a leading global company employees use to generate content and the
market intelligence firm. places where the content ‘lives’ and is available for enter-
prise-wide interaction and collaboration.
Among the most popular solutions today are Microsoft
Office 365 (O365), Slack and Work by Facebook. If an The Role of Corporate Culture
organization is a Microsoft customer using Outlook, Equally important as having appropriate technology to
Excel and other MS functionality, it may already have support WOL is having the right corporate culture across
access to all or most of what’s needed for WOL, espe- the enterprise. Collaboration and knowledge sharing
cially if it has licenses for other components of the must be the mantra. That’s certainly the case at RF
platform (e.g., Yammer for discussions and Teams for where employees are evaluated during their bi-annual
collaboration). In this case, working out loud might not performance reviews on how much they work out loud
require buying more technology, although the enterprise and the quality of their WOL activity.
still would have to invest manpower and time in deter-
mining how to set up and utilize the collaboration eco- Leading collaborative organizations tend to believe all
system, and also how to get all employees to switch over or most of the following foundational principles and
to and ultimately embrace it. any company considering adoption of a WOL approach
should likewise be on board with these beliefs.

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