Embracing AI Tooling: Key Considerations for Future-Ready Organisations
With the increasing adoption of tools like ChatGPT, Azure OpenAI Services, Copilot, and even Midjourney, DALL-E, and Stable Diffusion, we’re rapidly entering a stage of technological advancement the likes of which most of us have never seen. The very definition of what it means to be a desk worker is going to change, and the biggest decision most of us in that space face is whether to embrace it and ride that wave, or to be on the back foot to everyone who has.
ChatGPT, Bing AI, Midjourney, and what comes next
When I wrote my last blog on GPT-3 back in October 2021, I had no idea that ChatGPT, Dall-E, Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, or the rest were going to become the household names they now are. That wasn’t because it wasn’t obvious how disruptive those technologies would be, but we’ve had plenty of industry disruption previously that has never entered the common vernacular. There are still people out here that would struggle to explain how you can take a photo on your phone and then open it on your computer a few minutes later.
Power Platform: Making apps that work offline
The Power Platform is an amazing platform to rapidly develop applications that integrate to a huge number of different systems. But did you know that you can use the same tools to develop an application that will work offline, even if it does read and write data from online systems?
GPT-3 and the Future of Software Development
GPT-3. Friend of C-3PO and R2-D2, I’m sure. Surprisingly, that’s not too far from the truth. Sitting somewhere between ‘Fluent in over six million languages’ and that noise your dialup modem used to make when connecting the internet, GPT-3 will certainly go down in history as one of the defining moments in the creation of Artificial Intelligence.
A Nuanced change at Microsoft
I’m sure you’ve heard by now that Microsoft has acquired Healthcare AI and voice recognition powerhouse Nuance for the modest sum of USD$19.7 billion (Around AUD$25.5bn). For many, this is just another feather in the already very impressive cap that is Microsoft. After all, this is the ninth company that Microsoft has acquired in the last twelve months, and Microsoft already have their LUIS platform and a strong set of Cognitive Speech offerings, so what – aside from the dollar value -makes this one special?
Organisational Process Optimisation: Achieving Automation
Business process automation is, arguably, the main driver behind the invention of the computer. So why does it feel like so much day-to-day complexity is at least related to, if not directly caused by these machines? Why hasn’t the ‘Automation Revolution’ already happened?
Power Platform Governance Principles
The Power Platform in M365, as the name suggests, is incredibly powerful. It is capable of developing applications to meet almost any business need and can often be developed by users with little to no developer background.
Microsoft 365 Governance Toolkit
Microsoft 365 is a vast platform capable of uplifting an organisation’s productivity, collaboration, and communication capability. Many of the products within M365 require little oversight above ‘Give everyone a license’ or ‘Make sure Office is part of the SOE’. Other products require significant investment and implementation before they can be used at all – most […]
6 Steps to Modernise your Workplace
You’re sitting at your desk. It’s likely the same one you’ve had since you started, or at least since that last big restructure a few years ago. You have your work-supplied computer on the desk and – laptop or desktop – that’s pretty much where it’s been since IT installed it there. There are meeting rooms nearby you can use as well as a sizeable boardroom. Whilst you generally like the people around you, quite frankly, sometimes you just need some quiet time to focus and get your work done.
