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From Pilots to Productivity: Unlocking the True ROI of Microsoft Copilot

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Millions of employees now have Microsoft Copilot at their fingertips, but only a small fraction of organizations have scaled it successfully. In this episode of the AI Proving Ground Podcast, World Wide Technology's Mike Davis and Softchoice's Craig McQueen share hard-won lessons on driving adoption, overcoming change management challenges and moving from pilots to measurable ROI. If your Copilot rollout has stalled, this conversation could be your roadmap forward.

Support for this episode provided by: Logitech

More about this week's guests:

Craig McQueen, Vice President for Digital Acceleration provides strategic direction and leadership in driving the creation of highly differentiated, customer-centric service capabilities and offerings for Softchoice. Craig and his team bring to life Softchoice strategy by painting a vision for technologies we take to customers, lead the development of the services required to help our customers adopt the most secure solutions across cloud, data center, collaboration and the digital workplace.

Craig's top pick: Microsoft 365 Copilot Wave 2: Spring 2025 Release Overview

Mike Davis has more than 20 years of experience in the IT services industry, specializing in voice and video technologies from Microsoft, Cisco, Zoom, Poly, and Pexip. With a business-driven approach, he possesses extensive knowledge of professional services to guide cross functional teams in diverse projects from execution to completion and is recognized as a trusted advisor for public and private sector customers throughout the technology life cycle.

Mike's top pick: Digital Trends Spotlight: Key Insights on Workforce Productivity Tools

The AI Proving Ground Podcast leverages the deep AI technical and business expertise from within World Wide Technology's one-of-a-kind AI Proving Ground, which provides unrivaled access to the world's leading AI technologies. This unique lab environment accelerates your ability to learn about, test, train and implement AI solutions.

Learn more about WWT's AI Proving Ground.

The AI Proving Ground is a composable lab environment that features the latest high-performance infrastructure and reference architectures from the world's leading AI companies, such as NVIDIA, Cisco, Dell, F5, AMD, Intel and others.

Developed within our Advanced Technology Center (ATC), this one-of-a-kind lab environment empowers IT teams to evaluate and test AI infrastructure, software and solutions for efficacy, scalability and flexibility — all under one roof. The AI Proving Ground provides visibility into data flows across the entire development pipeline, enabling more informed decision-making while safeguarding production environments.

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Chapters

1. The Copilot Adoption Paradox (00:00:00)

2. Change Management and Employee Experience (00:04:23)

3. Proving ROI Beyond Time Savings (00:08:02)

4. Effective Licensing and Security Strategies (00:14:35)

5. Future Evolution and Strategic Adoption (00:21:30)

6. Key Takeaways for Organizations (00:32:42)

34 episodes

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Content provided by World Wide Technology. All podcast content including episodes, graphics, and podcast descriptions are uploaded and provided directly by World Wide Technology or their podcast platform partner. If you believe someone is using your copyrighted work without your permission, you can follow the process outlined here https://podcastplayer.com/legal.

Millions of employees now have Microsoft Copilot at their fingertips, but only a small fraction of organizations have scaled it successfully. In this episode of the AI Proving Ground Podcast, World Wide Technology's Mike Davis and Softchoice's Craig McQueen share hard-won lessons on driving adoption, overcoming change management challenges and moving from pilots to measurable ROI. If your Copilot rollout has stalled, this conversation could be your roadmap forward.

Support for this episode provided by: Logitech

More about this week's guests:

Craig McQueen, Vice President for Digital Acceleration provides strategic direction and leadership in driving the creation of highly differentiated, customer-centric service capabilities and offerings for Softchoice. Craig and his team bring to life Softchoice strategy by painting a vision for technologies we take to customers, lead the development of the services required to help our customers adopt the most secure solutions across cloud, data center, collaboration and the digital workplace.

Craig's top pick: Microsoft 365 Copilot Wave 2: Spring 2025 Release Overview

Mike Davis has more than 20 years of experience in the IT services industry, specializing in voice and video technologies from Microsoft, Cisco, Zoom, Poly, and Pexip. With a business-driven approach, he possesses extensive knowledge of professional services to guide cross functional teams in diverse projects from execution to completion and is recognized as a trusted advisor for public and private sector customers throughout the technology life cycle.

Mike's top pick: Digital Trends Spotlight: Key Insights on Workforce Productivity Tools

The AI Proving Ground Podcast leverages the deep AI technical and business expertise from within World Wide Technology's one-of-a-kind AI Proving Ground, which provides unrivaled access to the world's leading AI technologies. This unique lab environment accelerates your ability to learn about, test, train and implement AI solutions.

Learn more about WWT's AI Proving Ground.

The AI Proving Ground is a composable lab environment that features the latest high-performance infrastructure and reference architectures from the world's leading AI companies, such as NVIDIA, Cisco, Dell, F5, AMD, Intel and others.

Developed within our Advanced Technology Center (ATC), this one-of-a-kind lab environment empowers IT teams to evaluate and test AI infrastructure, software and solutions for efficacy, scalability and flexibility — all under one roof. The AI Proving Ground provides visibility into data flows across the entire development pipeline, enabling more informed decision-making while safeguarding production environments.

  continue reading

Chapters

1. The Copilot Adoption Paradox (00:00:00)

2. Change Management and Employee Experience (00:04:23)

3. Proving ROI Beyond Time Savings (00:08:02)

4. Effective Licensing and Security Strategies (00:14:35)

5. Future Evolution and Strategic Adoption (00:21:30)

6. Key Takeaways for Organizations (00:32:42)

34 episodes

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