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Go Beyond Microsoft Teams Templates with Powell Governance
In a hybrid workplace, effective collaboration relies on Microsoft Teams. However, creating a Team can be a time-consuming task and if not done right can cause headaches down the line. Microsoft Teams templates improve the process while a fully optimized template from Powell Governance can do so much more.
Rise of the Hybrid Workplace & Use of Microsoft Teams
With the generalization of hybrid work, adapting work methodshas become a priority for most organizations.High on the list of priorities is bringing aseamless and efficient collaboration experience to the digital workplace.
This hybrid workcontextrecently resulted in the explosion of Microsoft Teams adoption.However, collaboration in Teams is new for most users as it revolutionizes the way we work every day. Itinvolves new uses andbest practicesstill unknown to most. Users may feel lost in creating, managing, and customizing their Teams, which can result in,at best creating an inefficient team space, and at worst making mistakes that can impact IT practices (governance, management, security).
“In most cases,it will take a user an average of 30 minutes to create an advanced team, ready-to-go.“
This has led to twomainchallenges
How can organizations simplify Teams creation and optimize business processes?
How can IT ensureuser freedom tocreate anduse Teams while ensuring security and governance?
Microsoft Native Team Templates
Microsoft recently announced the ability for Teams users to quicklycreate customizable Teams templates. Over the next few months, users willhave the ability to pick from a variety of customizable templatesfrom common business scenarios. These includeevent or crisis management, as well as industry-specific templates, hospital wards, or bank branches.
Microsoft Teams templates provide alimitedexperiencethat willaddress a small part of the activities required to create a ready-to-go team.Each template will come with pre-defined channels but onlyhave pre-activated tabs which still need to be configured, providing alimited experience that will not cover mostbusinessneeds.
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Creating an advanced team template will be 4 to 5 times longerwith Microsoft than with Powell Governance templates
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Beyond Templating – Go Further with Powell Governance
At Powell Software, our Teams templates capabilities go much deeper, covering all the aspects of Teams configuration: Tabs set-up & ready to go, pre-loaded, linked to the corresponding Intranet pages.
Powell Governance alsogoes further than Microsoft templatesby aligning with the main hybrid work challenges:
Simplify and improve end-user collaboration experience
Automate governance and management for IT
Address business needs with specific digitizedscenarios
7 Microsoft Team template examples from the Powell Governance gallery
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