Microsoft Innovation Podcast
If you want to get your ideas or questions featured on an episode, please leave us a voicemail: https://www.microsoftinnovationpodcast.com/voicemail/Dive into the future of work with the "Microsoft Innovation Podcast," exploring the intersection of People, Business, Technology, and AI. Engage with expert guests—including thought leaders from Microsoft, industry innovators, and community specialists—who are redefining the world with advancements in AI, Cloud technologies, the Power Platform, Dynamics 365, and beyond.Every episode delivers a blend of in-depth discussions, practical insights, and actionable strategies tailored for professionals driving enablement and innovation. Join us across our six shows:The P...
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Why AI Fails Without Governance and Information Architecture
<p>Get featured on the show by leaving us a Voice Mail: https://bit.ly/MIPVM <br/> <br/>Simon Hudson explores how organisations can build real AI capability by grounding Copilot and AI tools in strong information architecture, governance, and canonical knowledge. He discusses using SharePoint as the brain of the business, the limits of today’s agent hype, and why AI should be treated like essential infrastructure rather than a bolt-on. The conversation highlights practical patterns for reducing hallucinations, improving productivity, and using AI to support executive and ethical decision-making. </p><p>🎙 <b>Full Show Notes</b> <br/>https://www.micr...
Build an AI-Ready Culture Without the Hype
<p>Get featured on the show by leaving us a Voice Mail: https://bit.ly/MIPVM <br/> <br/>Sam Fankuchen shares how organisations can move beyond AI hype to build real capability. The discussion focuses on creating an AI-ready culture, using AI agents with human oversight, and adopting AI responsibly in regulated environments. Sam explains why transparency, ethics, and experimentation matter, and why delaying adoption carries its own risks. The conversation is grounded in practical experience, showing how AI can scale human impact while keeping people, trust, and quality of life at the centre. </p><p>👉 <b>Full Show Notes</b> <br...
Why Copilot Adoption Stalls and How to Fix It
<p>Get featured on the show by leaving us a Voice Mail: https://bit.ly/MIPVM </p><p>Danny Burlage joins The MVP Show to explore why AI adoption in organisations is stalling and what actually moves it forward. The conversation moves beyond personal productivity to focus on AI as infrastructure, process transformation, and organisational capability. Danny shares what he sees in European enterprises, why Copilot adoption has lagged, and how companies can move from isolated pilots to real business impact by redesigning end to end processes and building AI literacy at scale.</p><p>🎙 <b>Full Show Notes</b> <br/>...
How to Actually Get Value from Copilot at Work
<p>Get featured on the show by leaving us a Voice Mail: https://bit.ly/MIPVM </p><p>This episode explores how organisations can move from AI curiosity to real value using Microsoft Copilot and agents, drawing on practical insights from Yves Habersaat. The conversation focuses on adoption that starts where people already work, keeps early use cases simple, and scales only when the need is clear. It also covers real-world agent scenarios, model choice, and why low-code tools are often enough to deliver results quickly. </p><p><b>👉 Full Show Notes</b> <br/>https://www.microsoftinnovationpodcast.com/803</p><p>🎙️ <b>What you...
Why Most AI Projects Fail to Deliver ROI
<p>Get featured on the show by leaving us a Voice Mail: https://bit.ly/MIPVM <br/> <br/>This episode reframes how leaders should approach generative AI, with insights from Justin Trombold. Instead of chasing use cases or tools, the focus is on fixing processes, incentives, and operating models. The conversation explores why many AI pilots fail, how ROI thinking can mislead, and why AI should be treated as a new way of working rather than a software upgrade. Practical examples show how small, disciplined changes can unlock productivity, innovation, and meaningful business impact without overinvesting or freezing in fear. </p><...
AI Adoption: From “No Thanks” to Power Users
<p>Get featured on the show by leaving us a Voice Mail: https://bit.ly/MIPVM <br/> <br/>AI enablement is a change problem, not a tech problem. In this episode, Molly Rupert-Sullivan breaks down how to support three groups at once: people who do not get AI yet, people who want to opt out, and champions who want more. You will hear practical ways to set expectations, avoid over‑teaching “all AI”, and build momentum by giving champions the right access, platforms, and repeatable wins that can scale across an organisation. <br/> <br/>👉️ Full Show Notes <br/>https://www.microsoftin...
From Prompts to Goals: How AI Now Writes Full Documents
<p>Get featured on the show by leaving us a Voice Mail: https://bit.ly/MIPVM </p><p>This episode tracks how Manbhawan Prasad and the Word team are evolving Copilot from simple prompt-based help to goal-based “agent mode” that can plan and edit documents directly. You will hear practical, enterprise-focused examples: using SharePoint knowledge as authoritative context, reducing blank-page inertia, mirroring customer language from emails and meeting transcripts, and using AI as an always-on reviewer for structure, clarity, and accuracy. </p><p>👉️ <b>Full Show Notes</b> <br/>https://www.microsoftinnovationpodcast.com/800 <br/> <br/><b>🎙️ What you’ll learn</b> </p>Shift from...
Stop Chasing OKRs: Solve the Real Business Puzzle
<p>Get featured on the show by leaving us a Voice Mail: https://bit.ly/MIPVM <br/> <br/>This episode challenges goal-driven thinking in an AI-enabled world through a conversation with Radhika Dutt. The discussion explores why OKRs and vanity metrics often fail, especially when AI accelerates optimisation without understanding. The core insight is a shift from goal setting to puzzle setting. By framing problems clearly, staying in the discomfort, and learning through small experiments, teams can build products that create long-term value. Practical examples show how this mindset helped recover stalled growth, improve trust, and reduce churn while keeping hu...
Building Copilot Habits That Actually Stick
<p>Get featured on the show by leaving us a Voice Mail: https://bit.ly/MIPVM <br/> <br/>Amelia Hernandez Osorio explores practical ways organisations can build lasting Copilot habits, strengthen internal communities and drive effective AI adoption. Amelia shares her journey through web technologies, SharePoint, cloud transformation and Microsoft 365 adoption, offering guidance on behaviour change, team enablement and identifying meaningful Copilot use cases that improve daily work. </p><p><b>👉 Full Show Notes</b> <br/>https://www.microsoftinnovationpodcast.com/798 </p><p>🎙️<b>What you’ll learn </b> </p>How to help teams build sustainable Copilot habits How internal communities strengthen adoption...
AI Risks You’re Ignoring and How to Fix Them
<p>Get featured on the show by leaving us a Voice Mail: https://bit.ly/MIPVM <br/> <br/>Craig Taylor shares practical, real‑world guidance on cybersecurity, AI risks, and behaviour change inside organisations. He explains why positive reinforcement outperforms punishment, how biases appear in AI systems, and why zero‑trust matters for companies of all sizes. The conversation offers pragmatic, people‑centred steps to strengthen cyber literacy, reduce insider risk, and navigate emerging threats such as deepfakes and social engineering. </p><p>👉 <b>Full Show Notes</b> <br/>https://www.microsoftinnovationpodcast.com/797 </p><p><b>🎙️ What you’ll learn</b> </p>How to streng...
