Data Loss Prevention Policies, coupled with Environment Strategy, are the back bone to our platform governance. By designing our DLP strategy aligned to our Scalable Governance model we can manage risk associated with what systems, data sources, or services are being connected to, how, to do what, and by whom. In this post we’ll break down DLP controls and how we align these to our holistic model.

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Configuring Power Platform is a key part of being able to enable a scalable governance model that balances enablement with safety and security.

Our Environment Strategy is the key foundation of this and the capabilities of Managed Environments and recently announced Environment Groups turbo charge this and make it even easier to manage them.

In this blog post we’ll take a look at how these come together and you can use them to power up your organisation!

Not all solutions are the same complexity, criticality, size so we can’t, or more importantly shouldn’t, look to govern them all in a single way. Small solutions should be governed lightly, more critical or sensitive solutions should be governed robustly.

In v2 of this scalable governance model this model gives an improved method of defining a common language and a standard way of assessing and defining action around different scales of ideas, use cases, and solutions, whilst giving flexibility to apply it to any organisation, in any industry, at any scale.

Do you want to enable people and organisations to change behaviours and embed different ways of thinking and acting to drive culture around AI / Copilot, Low Code / Power Platform?

Are there other outcomes you’re trying to drive, tech or non-tech related, where you’re trying to drive a change in awareness, perception, behaviour, or actions?

Well say “Hello!” to the ‘Enablement Engine’ the v2 of a model we can use to enable people and organisations to change behaviours and embed different ways of thinking and acting to drive culture.

This simplification of the iterative cycle, and the rename, is to show that this isn’t just a ‘Maker Movement’ - This is a way to Enable the world!

Come and read all about it and some examples of how these steps could be used to Enable AI and Microsoft Copilot!

Sharing is a key factor for adoption and enablement success. We can consider this both internally within our movement, and externally out into to the wider organisation, and beyond! In this post we’ll explore what this can mean for each of our movement steps.

A key part of the Maker Movement in enabling adoption is story telling. We want to celebrate the people, behaviours, and ‘things’ that people are doing, learning, sharing, making.

In this blog post we’re going to look into what we should be looking to celebrate to reinforce our desired behaviours and inspire others to do the same. We’ll look at some of the audiences we’d like to share these celebrations with and some of the approaches in doing it.

How do we help give people a scalable structure that helps them identify potential use cases in their work, design and build it right and well, relase it into the wild to our users, support it, and iteratively improve it? Well fear not…. In today’s blog post you’ll read about the latest part of the ‘Maker Movement’ in enabling people and growing adoption!

LET’S BUILD SUPERHEROES!

In my latest blog post we focus on an approach to educating those ‘Leaders’ and ‘People’ who we have inspired in previous steps of the ‘Maker Movement’. We start to identify a structured approach to teach them HOW to learn not WHAT to learn based on Formal Training, learning from others, and learning whilst doing.

Have you been wondering what Copilot means in the context of Power Platform? How does it link together? What licenses do I need?

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Hey everyone! Today’s blog post is about the next step of the Maker Movement - People! How do we inspire them to start their Power Platform or Copilot journey?

Who / Where do we find them?

What’s in it for them?

What could it mean to their career?

Jump in for a read to find out more!

‘Leaders’ is the first, or last (as I explain in the post), step of the ‘Maker Movement’ we’re going to delve into. They’re critical to our success and to the success of inspiring and directing the organisation to help them understand what the platform is, what it does, and why it’s important to THEM, and the organisation. But there are different types of leaders! Who? Well read this post to understand that, and how Backstage Leadership can be used to drive our value hypothesis!

In this post I explore ‘Community’ and how we can use them to help us build adoption and enablement. In this blog post I describe:

• What ‘community is’

• Where it fits in helping us achieve our goal of growing adoption and enablement

• How technology, process, and people, come together to enable community behaviours and feelings, supported by the culture we need to establish to help it to happen

• What different stages of community / platform might look like and where it aligns with the value model

• How we can generate traffic INTO the community to attract more members and traffic WITHIN the community to provide value, and fun, to it’s members

Come and jump in to learn more!

Power Platform Measures & KPIs - In business we have a love affair with measures and KPIs. We often measure a lot! Some might say we sometimes measure too much… and it’s not always clear WHY we are measuring those things? Who is actually looking at those measures and what do they do with them? Let’s take a look at measures and where we can start with our Power Platform adoption!

The Maker Movement is a frame work of steps centred on building an enabling community that give a way to iteratively grow engagement and adoption.

In this post you’ll get a high level overview of the steps to Establish behaviours, enable those behaviours to deliver value, and use story telling to reinforce those behaviours and attract others to join the movement too!

The key ingredient is… fun!

Viral Change is a method of creating pull and attract people to the Power Platform! We want people to see what’s being done, how someone is doing it, recognise the value in doing it, join in and become part of something, and to call to their friends and colleagues to encourage them to join too, and where possible to have fun doing it too! But how? I’ll tell you in this week’s blog post! 😁

Organisational Change Management is a important topic and one which is often overlooked, underestimated, and / or undervalued!

In this post we’ll explore elements of this and how we can look at top down or bottom down change approach to support our Power Platform adoption and enablement.

How do we define a vision and strategy for our Power Platform Implementation? Then break that down into a roadmap of goals which we can translate down into a series of aligned activities to achieve our vision over time.

So… Where to start… The approach I’m going to use to break this down is to talk about Vision, Strategy, Roadmap, and OKRs and we’re going to think about Power Platform in our organisation as a ‘Product’ rather than a ‘Project’.

When we tend to talk about ‘Value’ we usually hear conversations about how much time the thing saves… How much lower costs are… How output has been increased… How quality has been improved… These are all types of value and they’re all valid an important. But there’s more to consider here… MUCH more!

In this post I’m going to explain how I think about value of the power platform and how we maximise it!

Once size doesn’t fit all with governance! What might be right for one ‘Size’ of solution may be drastically over bureaucratic for another.

Using a scalable governance model, that can be understood and followed by anyone in an organisation!