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Efficiency Best Practices for Microsoft 365

By : Dr. Nitin Paranjape
Book Image

Efficiency Best Practices for Microsoft 365

By: Dr. Nitin Paranjape

Overview of this book

Efficiency Best Practices for Microsoft 365 covers the entire range of over 25 desktop and mobile applications on the Microsoft 365 platform. This book will provide simple, immediately usable, and authoritative guidance to help you save at least 20 minutes every day, advance in your career, and achieve business growth. You'll start by covering components and tasks such as creating and storing files and then move on to data management and data analysis. As you progress through the chapters, you'll learn how to manage, monitor, and execute your tasks efficiently, focusing on creating a master task list, linking notes to meetings, and more. The book also guides you through handling projects involving many people and external contractors/agencies; you'll explore effective email communication, meeting management, and open collaboration across the organization. You'll also learn how to automate different repetitive tasks quickly and easily, even if you’re not a programmer, transforming the way you import, clean, and analyze data. By the end of this Microsoft 365 book, you'll have gained the skills you need to improve efficiency with the help of expert tips and techniques for using M365 apps.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
1
Section 1: Efficient Content Creation
7
Section 2: Efficient Collaboration
10
Section 3: Integration

Standardization with best practices

Now everyone knows that Microsoft 365 is powerful. They are broadly aware of the capabilities of each tool or app. Most people get excited after the demo session or the live event. The excitement will last for some time and then decline. We don't just want excitement.

Now is the time to convert that excitement into real efficiency improvement. We still have the challenge of too many features and too many use cases to solve.

We cannot just ask each person to explore all the features and figure out the best way for themselves. Nobody has the time or the inclination to explore and improve. Inertia is the king. The status quo always succeeds.

Even if a few people did explore and improve their work, not everyone will benefit from it. The efficiency improvement of a few people will get diluted with a lack of improvement from everyone else.

The solution is standardization. Identify common activities, scenarios, business needs, or use...