Copilot is coming – look busy. There’s a lot of buzz about Microsoft’s upcoming AI assistant.You may have heard that Copilot is going to become the most powerful productivity tool on the planet. Meanwhile, initial research from GitHub suggests that the AI tool could help us work 55% faster.Big claims… but what on earth is Copilot? We caught up with Mark and Kirsty, two of our resident Microsoft 365 experts at The Inform Team. Together we’ll find out what Copilot is, what it isn’t, and how it could change the way you work.

Patient discharge is where the NHS and social care come together. Once a patient is fit to leave hospital, the race is on to find an appropriate care setting. Simple tools for communication, collaboration and process automation can help streamline the patient discharge process and improve care.

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Ordnance Survey is the national mapping agency. They create, maintain and distribute detailed location information for Great Britain. They record and keep 500 million geospatial features in the Ordnance Survey master map up-to-date.

Technology can enable freedom from the traditional office working model. It’s helped Chris Chambers, former Head of the PSGA, relocate over 200 mile away from the head office and still lead his team to keep delivering a major project for Ordnance Survey at the time. Effective use of collaborative technology like Microsoft Teams and SharePoint really unlocks the potential of hybrid working and remote working.

How a leading public sector organisation successfully pivoted from a Teams implementation to an adoption and hybrid-working project.

About the client: as a tech-mature organisation, Ofwat already had video conferencing and chat platforms and was eagerly anticipating implementing MS Teams. Then, like most organisations, the Covid pandemic altered its digital transformation strategy.

Inform won the Teams implementation contract as an approved supplier within the government’s G-Cloud procurement process. When Covid hit, it accelerated Ofwat’s Teams rollout and changed the scope of the project. Inform is used to scaling and changing at short notice to support clients. Inform was able to quickly pivot, providing Ofwat with an adoption strategy to help embed their mature digital workplace culture further and better instil a hybrid model.