All posts by Jason Kellington
Jun 3, 2024
Powering purpose-driven employee engagement and driving efficiency internally at Microsoft with OKRs and Microsoft Viva Goals
Employers everywhere are changing the way they think about work. As the hybrid workplace becomes the norm for many companies, employees are embracing flexible work, seeking work-life balance, and increasingly pursuing purpose and fulfillment in their work. At the same time, employers want to make sure their employees are focusing in the most impactful areas,...
Jan 23, 2024
Doing more with less internally at Microsoft with Microsoft Azure
How do we at Microsoft get the best value from our Microsoft Azure environment? We’ve been refining and optimizing the way we use the cloud for years, and as such, our answer isn’t just about how much we’ve been able to push down our monthly Azure bill. Our migration from managing our own datacenters to...
Jan 9, 2024
‘Got a question?’ Boosting employee engagement at Microsoft with Dynamics 365 and Power Platform
A decade ago, an email inbox was the primary tool that Microsoft Human Resources (HR) used to interact with employees. Today, Dynamics 365 and Microsoft Power Platform have transformed how Microsoft HR connects with and serves employees through our internal employee engagement platform, AskHR. Powered by Dynamics 365 Customer Service, AskHR is a core, critical...
Dec 21, 2023
Evolving our culture with Microsoft Viva
We’re learning a lot from deploying Microsoft Viva here at Microsoft, lessons we want to share with you. Microsoft Viva is a digital employee-experience platform that brings together essential capabilities such as communications, knowledge, learning, and workplace insights in the flow of work to empower people and teams to be their best. Powered by Microsoft...
Nov 15, 2023
Fueling Microsoft’s knowledge sharing culture with Microsoft Viva Topics
At Microsoft, we’re evolving our culture of learning. Part of that evolution is ensuring that our employees always have access to the information they need. We’re using Microsoft Viva Topics to consolidate and govern the vast breadth of collaborative knowledge sources across Microsoft, giving our employees access to the knowledge and expertise from their peers...
Jul 27, 2023
Sharing how Microsoft now secures its network with a Zero Trust model
Editor’s note: We’ve republished this blog with a new companion video. Safeguarding corporate resources is a high priority for any business, but how does Microsoft protect a network perimeter that extends to thousands of global endpoints accessing corporate data and services 24 hours a day, seven days a week? It’s all about communication, collaboration, and...
Jul 14, 2023
Creating learn-it-alls at Microsoft with Viva Learning and LinkedIn Learning Hub
At Microsoft, we’re dedicated to fostering a culture of growth mindset by promoting continuous learning. Learning is core to the employee experience, and recent data shows that if employees can’t learn and grow, they’ll leave. We want our employees to engage in learning, build new skills, advance in their career, and better understand how they...
Apr 21, 2023
Cultivating a culture of learning at Microsoft with Viva Learning
We’re using Microsoft Viva Learning to foster a learning culture, empower our learners, and fuel innovation and growth at Microsoft. Our Microsoft learning teams can enable learning in the flow of work and make it easy for our employees to find the type of learning content that they need. We can centralize and enhance the...
Apr 17, 2023
Simplifying compliance evidence management with Microsoft Azure confidential ledger
The Microsoft Digital Employee Experience (MDEE) team is using Microsoft Azure confidential ledger to create a centralized evidence store to streamline auditing needs. This evidence store enables teams from across Microsoft to store records and data related to regulatory compliance in a single location. A single collection point simplifies evidence storage for developers and compliance...
