How you can use Microsoft Copilot to maximise your business performance

30/09/24 Wavenet
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As tech advancements and innovations continue to evolve, supporting increased productivity and automation across our industries, it’s only natural that organisations start to look to smart technology to help them identify places they can push their efficiencies and offer support managing demanding everyday workloads.

To help businesses, Microsoft developed and integrated game-changing AI technology, Copilot, into their existing cloud solutions (including Microsoft 365), helping teams work smarter within familiar applications they’re already using.

In this blog, we’ll explore the capabilities of Copilot, highlighting how businesses can benefit from this transformative technology to reduce friction in their workflows, pick up the pace of their projects, lower employee workloads and improve decision-making.

What is Microsoft Copilot?

Microsoft Copilot is designed to minimise the time employees spend on repetitive, everyday tasks, leaving them to create and innovate. Positioned by Microsoft as ‘Your everyday AI companion’, Copilot has introduced a revolutionary new way of working. It combines large language models with your business data to help employees dive deeper into insights, lower time spent on administrative tasks and create engaging content.

The core capabilities of Copilot: 

Analysis and reporting 

Since Microsoft Copilot is integrated with business data and commonly used Microsoft 365 apps, employees can ask Copilot to identify key trends in their data, create a paragraph summary of what the data is showing, and even draft an engaging report to share with stakeholders. A task that might have taken a full morning, now takes moments.

Meeting assistant

With Copilot taking the meeting notes, all attendees can be completely present. While you brainstorm ideas and delegate actions, Copilot will summarise the notes, assign tasks to employees and even suggest follow-up actions, which you can edit as you please. You can even ask it to send out a follow-up email, or message in Teams, while you crack on with the actions.

Intelligent insights

Whether you’re analysing data in finance or taking an inbound call in Customer Service, Copilot works with Microsoft 365 and Dynamics 365 platforms to provide intelligent suggestions to improve performance and productivity.

Task automation

Copilot recognises repetitive patterns in the working week, such as scheduling meetings or organising files and will set up an automated workflow so you never have to do it again.

The business benefits of Microsoft Copilot:

Boost productivity

From automated reminders and workflows to taking on all your meeting and reporting admin, Copilot can help to cut down workloads and jump-start stalling projects, constantly keeping momentum across the organisation.

Training and upskilling

Thanks to Copilot’s intelligent suggestions and personalised assistance, employees can benefit from subtle coaching as they work. By asking Copilot for feedback, tips or explanations, employees can build on key skills such as writing, communicating and collaborating.

Improve decision-making

With Copilot helping employees identify key data in seconds – and offering intelligent insights based on business performance – employees will be empowered to make informed decisions quicker.

Unleash creativity

Not only does Copilot help employees cut down on administrative tasks, leaving them more time to be creative. But it can also use your business data to help teams create engaging, personalised content or generate creative ideas with just a few clicks.

Find out how your business can benefit from Microsoft Copilot 

Are you looking to boost your business productivity? Take our quick assessment to find out how Microsoft Copilot can help your company overcome key operational challenges and transform overall performance.

 

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