Microsoft Innovation Podcast

FULL SHOW NOTES https://podcast.nz365guy.com/309 A brief introduction about Yash Agarwal’s origin and family background. Yash’s career background and what he does when not working. Learn about Yash’s involvement with trading cryptocurrencies. Talks about Yah’s autonomous vehicles and his worries about its security. A conversation about Yash’s Microsoft Power Platform journey What Yash is working on right now using the Microsoft Power Platform How did Yash’s blog – bythedevs start? Yash’s favourite thing when it comes to technology. MVP journey of Yash - the process and how everything started. The impact of the MVP program on Yash’s career? Support the showIf you want to get in touch with me, you can message me here on Linkedin.Thanks for listening 🚀 - Mark Smith

FULL SHOW NOTES https://podcast.nz365guy.com/308  A Brief introduction about Jim Stout’s life - life in Europe and the United States  Jim’s life background and hobbies  Educational and Career Background of Jim  How did Jim become interested in Microsoft Business Applications?   Jim’s involvement with Microsoft CRM A story about how Jim got into technology.  Talks about Jim’s career journey.  What are the factors Jim has found in identifying top talent?  The importance of Character and Good Management skills Why is curiosity and service mentality important? How to keep people working with you? Why is humble self-confidence important? How does Jim develop talent once he has it on his team?  Jim’s involvement with grad programs. How do grad programs play in finding and developing talent? How to get newly grads effective as a high-performance consultant  Microsoft 365 Copilot Adoption is a Microsoft Press book for leaders and consultants. It shows how to identify high-value use cases, set guardrails, enable champions, and measure impact, so Copilot sticks. Practical frameworks, checklists, and metrics you can use this month. Get the book: https://bit.ly/CopilotAdoptionSupport the showIf you want to get in touch with me, you can message me here on Linkedin.Thanks for listening 🚀 - Mark Smith

FULL SHOW NOTES https://podcast.nz365guy.com/307 The number of MVP in Fatih Demirci’s region. What’s famous and the things you can do if you will visit Turkey. Fatih’s educational and career background. How did Fatih start in IT, and what led him to where he is right now? A conversation about Fatih’s story and the reason for changing his job. Project Fatih is involved in. How popular is Power Platform, ERP, CRM and Dynamics in Turkey? The impact of becoming an MVP on Fatih’s career. Building a user group community in Turkey. Fatih’s involvement in the user group community and MVP community in Turkey. How Fatih organizes MVP community events. OTHER RESOURCES: Turkey User group: https://kommunity.com/dynamics-365-user-group-turkiyeMicrosoft 365 Copilot Adoption is a Microsoft Press book for leaders and consultants. It shows how to identify high-value use cases, set guardrails, enable champions, and measure impact, so Copilot sticks. Practical frameworks, checklists, and metrics you can use this month. Get the book: https://bit.ly/CopilotAdoptionSupport the showIf you want to get in touch with me, you can message me here on Linkedin.Thanks for listening 🚀 - Mark Smith

FULL SHOW NOTES https://podcast.nz365guy.com/306 A Brief introduction about April Dunnam’s life and family background.  April talks about her journey from Microsoft MVP to working with Microsoft.   Discussions about April’s involvement in SharePoint and as the SharePoint Siren.  April’s thoughts about Info Path now.  A conversation about how April started with YouTubing and what does this means to her?  The tools April is using in YouTubing to create a quality and attractive video.Feedback April received from listeners  What is Fusion Development?  A discussion about Fusion Development Teams functions.  The skills and knowledge fusion development allow building better applications.  What does fusion development mean to professional developers?  Talks about April’s role and responsibilities  Career switching  April’s thoughts on the future for Pro Devs on the Power Platform and why they should care as a Code First Developer  What is Microsoft DataVerse for Teams environment? RESOURCES Power Platform Learn: https://powerplatformlearn.com/ Fusion Development Learn: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/paths/transform-business-applications-with-fusion-development/ Thank you Mike Ford for your support! Microsoft 365 Copilot Adoption is a Microsoft Press book for leaders and consultants. It shows how to identify high-value use cases, set guardrails, enable champions, and measure impact, so Copilot sticks. Practical frameworks, checklists, and metrics you can use this month. Get the book: https://bit.ly/CopilotAdoptionSupport the showIf you want to get in touch with me, you can message me here on Linkedin.Thanks for listening 🚀 - Mark Smith

FULL SHOW NOTES https://podcast.nz365guy.com/305 Talks about Oleksandr Olashyn’s country of origin and what made him move to Poland. How Oleksandr got involved in Microsoft Business Applications and how it started? Recommendations to people who are considering working in Dynamics 365 developer The changes in Dynamics and the things that Oleksandr did before and now that are different? The resources Oleksandr is using – PCF or Web resources? What Oleksandr thought about what PCF needs to improve from the Microsoft side? Oleksandr journey into becoming a Microsoft MVP How Oleksandr started sharing his knowledge with people in the community The impact of MVP on Oleksandr career What’s Oleksandr advice to people considering becoming a Microsoft MVP Support the showIf you want to get in touch with me, you can message me here on Linkedin.Thanks for listening 🚀 - Mark Smith

FULL SHOW NOTES https://podcast.nz365guy.com/304 A discussion with Alan Chai about Schlumberger  A conversation about Alan’s journey with PowerApps - 20K apps 32 flows 2M per day How Alan gets into where he is right now? Alan’s Power Platform journeyHow does Alan use Power Platform in their organization as a tool to create a solution? Learn how Microsoft Power Platform helped Alan create a solution he wants? Find out how to drive big adoption across a company? How did Alan keep in control? Categorizing Business Apps in solving business problems. Tells about Schlumberger internal community of citizen developers and contributors How it was created? How did they create their culture in the community? How did they grow it? In terms of adoption, how did Alan reference the solution he has created to something that is measurable in terms of business KPI? Alan talks about the Microsoft hackathon Talks about the success of Microsoft hackathon With people working remotely, how did this affect them from building Apps or solutions? What are they getting from these investments? How did they avoid the duplication method? How did they measure and track the value of your Power Platform solutions? Talks about their learning process? Alan’s view about the future of Power Platform and its impact on business. Microsoft 365 Copilot Adoption is a Microsoft Press book for leaders and consultants. It shows how to identify high-value use cases, set guardrails, enable champions, and measure impact, so Copilot sticks. Practical frameworks, checklists, and metrics you can use this month. Get the book: https://bit.ly/CopilotAdoptionSupport the showIf you want to get in touch with me, you can message me here on Linkedin.Thanks for listening 🚀 - Mark Smith

FULL SHOW NOTES https://podcast.nz365guy.com/303 A brief introduction about Christian Paul Abata Quinchuqui - the only MVP in Ecuador. Talks about Christian’s interest in Robotic Process Automation. A conversation about Christians RPA journey. Discussions about Christian's Power Platform learning experiences Christian’s experience as a Cloud Solution Architect at Cloud 360 Talks about Christian’s journey into becoming a Microsoft MVP – who nominated Christian How Christian got his first MVP nomination and the process involved. Things Christian shared in the community forum. Christian thoughts about working full time remotely  Christian’s engagement with Clients Support the showIf you want to get in touch with me, you can message me here on Linkedin.Thanks for listening 🚀 - Mark Smith

FULL SHOW NOTES https://podcast.nz365guy.com/302 A Brief Introduction about Bryony Wolf’s life, origin and family background. Bryony’s role and responsibilities as Senior Product Marketing Manager for Power Apps at Microsoft. Bryony's views on the growth of Microsoft Business Applications, Power Platform and Dynamics. Apps and old software that can be migrated into the Power Platform. A conversation about Power FX The Feedback they get now that Power FX is out in the market? Learn about the adoption and growth of Dataverse. Describes the Icon that represents the Dataverse What is GPT-3? Unpack Fusion Teams What is Enterprise Trust, and what it does? The big things happening in Power Platform Fusion Teams Enterprise Trust AI Everywhere GPT-3 RESOURCES:Power Platform Blog: https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/powerplatform/ Power FX Blog: https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/category/power-fx/ Microsoft 365 Copilot Adoption is a Microsoft Press book for leaders and consultants. It shows how to identify high-value use cases, set guardrails, enable champions, and measure impact, so Copilot sticks. Practical frameworks, checklists, and metrics you can use this month. Get the book: https://bit.ly/CopilotAdoptionSupport the showIf you want to get in touch with me, you can message me here on Linkedin.Thanks for listening 🚀 - Mark Smith

FULL SHOW NOTES https://podcast.nz365guy.com/301 A conversation about life and career background of Emma D’Arcy The benefits and the changes happened to Emma since becoming a Microsoft MVP. How it feels working with MVPs in Hitachi Hitachi’s culture in attracting top skilled personnel. Emma’s journey into becoming a Microsoft MVP. How Emma learned about the MVP Program. Find out more about Emma’s podcast! Emma’s involvement with the Dynamics 365 community events. Introduction to Pre-salesWhat is Emma seeing in the next 6 to 12 months? Recommendations to people considering becoming a Microsoft MVP. Support the showIf you want to get in touch with me, you can message me here on Linkedin.Thanks for listening 🚀 - Mark Smith

FULL SHOW NOTES https://podcast.nz365guy.com/300 Find out more about Lucy Bourne, Andrew Welch and Lee Baker’s life and career background.  Learn about what PowerApps Adoption Framework is. What are the moving parts of PowerApps Adoption Framework? The relationship of Center of Excellence Starter Kit and PowerApps adoption Framework How does governance fit with the center of excellence that Microsoft had released? What is enterprise risk and how does it impact the business? What are the key factors that contribute to an effective risk management program? Why does this solution address enterprise risk? How does Power Platform fit into an enterprise ecosystem based on what's in the market? Lee and Andrew’s views on the Microsoft Three Clouds story. What does that mean in an enterprise ecosystem? Resources Mentioned  Power Platform Adoption Framework: https://aka.ms/ppaf Field Blends: https://www.andrewdwelch.com/fieldblends Power Platform in a Modern Data Platform Architecture: https://www.andrewdwelch.com/blog/power-platform-data-platform-architecture  One Thousand Workloads: How your Roadmap maximizes Power Platform investment: https://www.andrewdwelch.com/blog/roadmap Microsoft 365 Copilot Adoption is a Microsoft Press book for leaders and consultants. It shows how to identify high-value use cases, set guardrails, enable champions, and measure impact, so Copilot sticks. Practical frameworks, checklists, and metrics you can use this month. Get the book: https://bit.ly/CopilotAdoptionSupport the showIf you want to get in touch with me, you can message me here on Linkedin.Thanks for listening 🚀 - Mark Smith