Viva
Enhance Employee Engagement and Productivity with Microsoft Viva Suite
Microsoft Viva Suite provides a robust set of tools designed to elevate employee engagement, streamline workflows, foster collaboration, and promote a healthier work-life balance. By integrating Viva Suite into your workplace, you can create a more connected, productive, and efficient organisational culture.
Microsoft Viva is the latest collection of modules and services released from Microsoft. Being driven under the latest marketing push around employee experience platform, Viva Connect, Viva Learning, Viva Insights and Viva Engage are only loosely interconnected and useful tools offered through the Microsoft Teams user-experience.
With the persistent push to establish Microsoft Teams as the primary portal and user-experience for Microsoft apps and services, connecting Viva suite to it only makes sense - but which modules are really ready for use?
Getting the most out of Microsoft's M365 platform isn't as straight forward as most people believe. With the drive to continually innovate Microsoft releases (and changes) a lot of things all the time. So what does Microsoft's latest suite of offerings bring you? We can help you with a proven managed process for defining criteria, assessing the fit and maturity and developing the best approach to rolling these tools out.
Understand what Microsoft is delivering with Viva
We help you navigate the latest round of Microsoft's marketing-speak and get to the bottom of Viva modules by understanding what is real, what is free and what is not ready for prime-time (or the additional spend). More importantly we can help you build your own model for evaluating and adopting other capabilities and apps as they are released.
Learning how to evaluate your internal needs, value available in the apps and where Microsoft is likely to keep investing is important. No one wants another Kaizala or Delve on their hands if they can avoid it.
Microsoft's Viva suite
Viva Connections
Finally, integration of your intranet on SharePoint Online into Microsoft Teams, with an embedded app experience. Viva Connections plugs the holes providing links to information architecture, UI design and content management options that Microsoft Teams does not offer out-of-the-box.
Microsoft Teams is a great communication and collaboration UI, but most organisations spend a long-time making sure they can find and make use of their key documents and information. The Viva Connections app and group-based dashboards allow you to provide targeted experience for different teams or audiences in your organisation without dependency on 3rd party plugins.
Viva Engage
Potentially one of the most useful tools for helping your organisation's community development. Based on the original Yammer platform, it needs investment with people, resources and content and a solid change programme to get the most from this toolset.
Integrated in Microsoft Teams though it offers the potential to change collaboration in an organisation. A high value return without (significant) extra costs in licensing. Understanding this and what it does for you before you venture into adoption has never been more important though.
Viva Learning
A lot of effort goes into developing, and refining application and device user-interfaces for apps and services, but virtually none are so intuitive we don't need training, coaching or to see great examples. Viva Learning module provides access a vast array of online training and support content, ranging from Microsoft's own M365 training and LinkedIn Learning, through to proven high-quality content providers like Udemy, Harvard Business, Cornerstone etc. Not quite on the cusp of delivering a Learning Management Solution, but not far off and with integration to most broadly used ones coming.
Viva Insights
In an ongoing global staffing and health crisis, managing and supporting staff wellbeing is not just a point of differentiation in recruiting. Its and essential. Insights supports you and your organisations staff with view of working habits, time expenditure and personal feedback on internal health.
An amalgamation of several technologies and tools Microsoft has been investing in for last couple of years, to get real value with this area you are more dependent on cultural change, operational support and paying for the extra services. Identifying what is useful, and what is just more cost is critical before enabling these components.
Assessment and adoption
Why not ask us about how we can help you? With:
managed process for setting up assessments,
establishing appropriate criteria and evaluation model
planning setup, roll-out and adoption of modules based on value to your organisation
If you want to know more about the best ways to assess and adopt Microsoft's Viva solutions? Drop us a line!
