Learn how to use Microsoft Viva as a business transformation and AI adoption engine at your organization in our readiness guide.
AI transformation is one of the most profound business changes in decades. Making the most of AI tools will require careful planning, thoughtful communication, comprehensive employee enablement, and diligent tracking.
Fortunately, Microsoft Viva fills all of these roles and more.
“Viva’s all about helping people thrive amidst transformation. At the intersection of how people communicate with each other, and companies communicate with employees, at the junction of how people feel at work with how they do their work, that’s where Viva makes an impact.”
Kirk Gregersen, corporate vice president of product, Microsoft Viva and Microsoft 365 Copilot Experiences
Microsoft Viva is a suite of applications designed to help organizations create an engaged and productive workforce. These apps can help you continuously improve employee experiences and business performance with powerful insights, meaningful communications, and genuine connections.
“Viva’s all about helping people thrive amidst transformation,” says Kirk Gregersen, corporate vice president of product for Microsoft Viva and Microsoft 365 Copilot Experiences. “At the intersection of how people communicate with each other, and companies communicate with employees, at the junction of how people feel at work with how they do their work, that’s where Viva makes an impact.”
As you embark on your AI transformation and drive adoption for Microsoft 365 Copilot, we created an eBook to help you plan and implement your change initiatives effectively: Ushering in the era of AI with Microsoft Viva. We based this readiness guide on our internal Copilot deployment and adoption efforts, and it’s based on insights from our teams of change managers, IT professionals, product experts, and business leaders.
Key takeaways
Our readiness guide will walk you through four stages of using Viva to drive your transformation:
Get ready: Identify opportunities, secure sponsorship, and apply insights to the planning process.
Onboard and engage: Drive awareness, provide opportunities for knowledge and skill building, and scale across communities.
Deliver impact: Measure and understand your progress, communicate learnings and success, and address knowledge or skill gaps.
Extend and optimize: Deepen the maturity of your transformation and provide opportunities for further success.
In each section, you’ll read examples of how we used apps across the Viva suite, the lessons we learned along the way, and hands-on checklists and resources that will help you propel your adoption efforts to success. When you’re finished reading, you’ll have everything you need to start your journey and use Viva to enter the era of AI securely and effectively.
Microsoft Digital stories The rate of change in IT is accelerating at a blistering pace. AI-powered capabilities like Microsoft 365 Copilot have enabled a new era of employee productivity. Today, agentic capabilities are supercharging IT…
Microsoft Digital stories Editor’s note: This story was created with the help of artificial intelligence. To learn more about how Inside Track is using the power of generative AI to augment our human staff, see…
Microsoft Digital stories At Microsoft, we are proudly a cloud-first organization: Today, 98% of our IT infrastructure—which serves more than 200,000 employees and incorporates over 750,000 managed devices—runs on the Microsoft Azure cloud. The company’s…
Microsoft Digital stories Traditionally, missing a meeting—or even just a part of one—could mean being left behind while the rest of the team pressed forward. Referring to prior meetings was tedious, requiring employees to sift…
Microsoft Digital stories We didn’t just hope Microsoft 365 Copilot for Sales would make a difference for our sales team here at Microsoft—we measured it. The results were outstanding. In the first few months after…
This story reflects updated guidance from Microsoft Digital—it was first published in 2024. Effective adoption doesn’t happen by accident. It takes a coordinated effort that includes executive sponsorship, education, engagement, measurement, and more. When you deploy a next-generation AI technology like Microsoft 365 Copilot that introduces whole new ways of working, getting that process right… Read more
Microsoft Viva Engage: A powerful business transformation tool Leading change through community engagement Engage with our experts! Customers or Microsoft account team representatives from Fortune 500 companies are welcome to request a virtual engagement on this topic with experts from our Microsoft Digital team. Microsoft Viva Engage connects employees with their leaders and each other. It gives… Read more
Business transformation is complex, multifaceted, and perpetual. It’s also firmly rooted in an organization’s culture, so it requires change management technology that meets human needs directly. At Microsoft Digital, the company’s IT organization, we have decades of experience leading technological change in search of innovation and better experiences for our employees. To ensure we’re matching… Read more
What this guide contains Intro: Deploying Microsoft 365 Copilot Chapter 1: Getting governance right Chapter 2: Implementation with intention Chapter 3: Driving adoption to capture value Chapter 4: Building a foundation for support Appendix: Downloadable assets to support your deployment Download a copy of this deployment and adoption guide here. Deploying Microsoft 365 Copilot at… Read more
