Microsoft 365 Copilot: How to prepare your business for AI adoption

03 Nov Microsoft 365 Copilot: How to prepare your business for AI adoption

Posted at 07:00h in Microsoft Copilot by Simon Spencer

Microsoft Copilot puts one of the hottest and most popular types of AI — an AI language model with generative capabilities — right into your hands, meaning that it gives you access to some of the most powerful AI capabilities that can help superpower your business and truly transform how your organisation operates.

In this article, we’re going to go over the ins and outs of Microsoft 365 Copilot including the best practices for implementing it into your organisation, as well as why AI adoption is becoming more and more vital for any organisation that wants to be successful in the modern digital world.

What is Microsoft 365 Copilot?

Microsoft Copilot is Microsoft’s new innovative AI tool — designed to be your copilot for work. It uses large language models (LLMs) in combination with your data to work with you and assist you however you need, making it an incredibly powerful tool to have at your disposal.

Integrated into Microsoft 365, Microsoft Copilot is always there to help you with whatever you need. Let’s say that you’re in Microsoft Word and you need to draft something based on prior meetings or other past communications — Microsoft Copilot will be able to help you complete it in an instant.

With this, you can have the power of the world of data in the hands of everything you need to do, saving you time and helping unleash your creativity boundlessly. No longer do you need to sit there and draft out everyday emails, contracts, proposals, and everything else that you waste your time on — Microsoft Copilot does it all and lets you use that time on the more important tasks.

However, Microsoft Copilot does more than just write for you. For example, in Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Copilot can compile meeting notes, summarise key points, and track what people agree and disagree with, providing you with actionable suggestions based on these key points.

All of this, and so much more, simply requires you to enter a prompt into Copilot and press enter, turning what would be hours of work throughout your week into seconds.

Why AI Adoption is Important in the Digital Age

AI is simply one of the most powerful technologies available in the digital world — and it cannot be ignored.

There are a multitude of benefits that come with implementing new AI technologies into your organisation, all of which will help take your business to the next level and stay ahead of the competition —

Productivity and Efficiency: AI simply lets you get things done far faster than doing them manually. Where before, it would take hours out of your day to respond to emails, create documents, research, and do everything you need to do to support your work, AI does all of that in seconds — meaning you can focus on other things that require more of your attention.
Data and Knowledge: Knowledge is power, and AI has access to a lot of information that can help you. Due to modern language models having access to most of the internet, you can easily get answers to what you need to know in seconds — with accurate, in-depth information.
Analysis and Insights: AI can easily analyse and extrapolate information far more thoroughly and efficiently than doing so manually, giving you access to new insights and information in seconds that would otherwise never be found. This can help you make key decisions with ease.

With all of these benefits and even more coming along as the technology develops, there’s no reason not to start using AI within your organisation.

Microsoft 365 Copilot Best Practices

Microsoft Copilot is a powerful tool, and utilising it effectively within your organisation can truly help your organisation become more successful than ever.

Here are some of the things you need to know when getting started with Microsoft Copilot —

Office Applications: Once enabled within your organisation, Microsoft Copilot will be available in all of the 365 Office applications — such as Microsoft Word, Powerpoint, Excel, Outlook, etc. Without doing anything, they’ll be on the right hand of your applications, meaning that you don’t have to spend time accessing Copilot externally when working.
Suggestions: As you type in Microsoft Copilot, it’ll suggest things based on context — getting used to these suggestions and utilising them will help improve your workflow, and are fully customizable in your settings to tailor them to what you need.
Fact-Checking: Over-reliance on Microsoft Copilot could cause errors or inaccuracies, so it’s important to check whatever you do in Copilot to ensure that it’s correct before continuing. This is good practice, as with any research.
Automation: Using tools such as the Power Platform, and Microsoft Autopilot also helps you automate throughout your organisation. Doing so can help speed up everyday tasks and make your workplace even more productive and efficient.

Microsoft Copilot is there to be your assistant, meaning that you simply just need to tell it what you want and it should be able to help. However, these practices will be able to help you use Copilot most efficiently and effectively.

How To Get Started

Microsoft Copilot is a powerful AI tool that any organisation can use to empower their organisation with the benefits of artificial intelligence and can be used to do a multitude of tasks in seconds.

If you’re looking to get started with Microsoft Copilot or 365 but don’t know where to start, reach out to us today. Our team of expert professionals will be able to help you work out how to move forward with 365 and Copilot and provide you with a helping hand along the way.