Intermediate

Our world is evolving, and more than ever before businesses need to become more innovative, more open, and cater to changing working styles and workforce demographics. Most technology platforms work against this, but SharePoint Online and Office 365 are the poster-child technology platforms for this new world of work. In this session, find out more about Microsoft’s research into Hybrid Organizations, how our working environment is changing (for the better) and how SharePoint Online and Office 365 can help facilitate your organization in becoming a Hybrid Organization, improving efficiencies, and staying ahead of your competition.

Lessons:

• Learn about Microsoft’s research into Hybrid Organizations
• Discover why the world of work is changing and how that impacts you and your organization
• How SharePoint Online (and Office 365) can enable you to realize the value of being a Hybrid Organization

Antony Clay, 21apps
Antony Clay (Ant) is chief strategy officer at 21apps and is an Innovation Games® qualified instructor, trained facilitator, and one of a new breed of SharePoint 'business technology’ consultants. Working with clients to innovate and align technology investments to organizational outcomes whilst changing the way they work through facilitation, visualization, serious games, and organizational storytelling, Ant is known to ask clients repeatedly “Why?” until they break down and admit they just don’t know. Ant consults, coaches, and speaks on a range of topics including SharePoint, collaboration, innovation technology platforms, and governance, and delivers a number of innovative training and workshop sessions.

This exclusive workshop will give a hands-on practical application of the use of Innovation Games to improve the quality of business requirements and facilitate deep user and business stakeholder engagement throughout the envisoning, scoping, and requirements phases of your SharePoint projects.

Join this deep-dive workshop for an overview of the background and benefits of using Serious Games and to learn how Innovation Games techniques can be applied to SharePoint projects for SMEs up to global corporations. This workshop will also run through case studies of how 21apps has successfully utilized these techniques.

The workshop will then go into some deep-dive, real-life, and hands-on exercises using a selection of appropriate games such as Speed Boat, Product Box, Prune the Product Tree, Spider Web, or Remember the Future to help attendees realize the value of Innovation Games and give some insights into how they can apply these techniques to their SharePoint projects.

Lessons:

• Understanding of how Serious Games can add significant value to your SharePoint kit-bag
• How to apply the right techniques at the right time to solve common SharePoint challenges
• Have lots of fun!

Antony Clay, 21apps
Antony Clay (Ant) is chief strategy officer at 21apps and is an Innovation Games® qualified instructor, trained facilitator, and one of a new breed of SharePoint 'business technology’ consultants. Working with clients to innovate and align technology investments to organizational outcomes whilst changing the way they work through facilitation, visualization, serious games, and organizational storytelling, Ant is known to ask clients repeatedly “Why?” until they break down and admit they just don’t know. Ant consults, coaches, and speaks on a range of topics including SharePoint, collaboration, innovation technology platforms, and governance, and delivers a number of innovative training and workshop sessions.