Author: Lukas Velush

Lukas Velush tells the story of how Microsoft uses its own technology on this blog and on the Microsoft Digital Inside Track website (link near the top left of your screen). He’s a recovering journalist who needs to not take himself too seriously.

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  • Getting products to customers faster with dropshipping at Microsoft

    The COVID-19 pandemic pushed supply chains into the spotlight and revealed just how shaky they can be. If you panic-bought toilet paper or flour in March 2020, you know that a perfect storm formed as customers frantically bought up every item from store shelves just as factories shut their doors, resulting in widespread product shortages… Read More

  • Enhancing employee listening at Microsoft with Viva Glint

    At Microsoft, giving our employees every opportunity to thrive is critical. Now, we have a new but familiar tool to help us do that—our very own Microsoft Viva Glint. We’re using Viva Glint—which replaces LinkedIn Glint—to check in with our 190,000 employees, and to respond to their feedback accordingly. We recently finished migrating our centralized,… Read More

  • Unlocking the potential of Microsoft 365 Copilot at the role level

    There’s no question: Microsoft 365 Copilot is changing how work gets done here at Microsoft and beyond. An intelligent digital assistant with access to any company data you need that can process and accomplish requests using natural language—that’s a powerful productivity booster. But how do you zero in on the scenarios and use cases that… Read More

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  • Tackling environmental sustainability from the inside out at Microsoft

    Microsoft operates 100 percent carbon neutral. It also levies an internal carbon tax on its own business units to help pay for climate change and environmental sustainability initiatives, including giving technology grants to environmental projects outside of Microsoft. Both are…

  • How one Microsoft leader sparked an engineering team’s transformation

    When Sahil Garg set out to overhaul how Microsoft delivers procurement and payment solutions to employees and external suppliers, he had to do one important thing first—he had to get the people onboard. He needed the software engineers to work…

  • Microsoft Teams keeps employees connected during epic snow event  

    For Microsoft, the best part of the epic snowstorms that hammered its headquarters for nine straight days is that the collaboration technology that employees used to work from home was as seamless as if they were still in the office. While the 50,000 employees who live in Redmond, Washington were blocked in by roughly two feet of snow that fell from…

  • Opening the door to a new first impression at Microsoft

    You learn a lot about someone when you pass through their front door. Microsoft is no different. The company is retooling the experience visitors have when they walk into Microsoft’s many front doors—the company has more than 770 buildings around…

  • Finding the right match: Why Microsoft launched a skills library

    Often, what you’re looking for is right under your nose. Microsoft and other companies commonly find it challenging to assess the skills of their employees. The reason? The language people use to talk about professional skills varies widely (what one…