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As an operations guy, that is very exciting to me. In most organizations, the move to cloud (whether public or private), the move towards a devops culture, the move towards application modernization, and the growth of shadow-IT will continue to drive new requirements for how Operations provides services to the business and to the application development and engineering teams. What a wonderful change that would be for many IT Pros from installing servers and getting paged in the middle of the night to driving measurable business impact and improving people's lives. By driving the scenarios, I would prove significant business impact, and I would create a new niche for myself. That would be real, measurable value, and that would be fun! There are countless scenarios to focus on.

I would be able to prove that as Skype for Business use in the Sales Department went up, Travel Costs/user/month went down. I would make a direct impact on the bottom line with my project. I would use data provided by the Office 365 user reports and combine it with existing business data on Travel Cost/user/month. Perhaps it would be the sales department because they have the highest travel budget and the highest rate of employee turnover due to burnout in this imaginary example. I would focus on one or more departments or business units who really want to drive change. Such a project would save the company money, but it would also positively impact people's lives by letting them spend more time at home and less time in hotels for work, so such a scenario would be very fulfilling. I would focus on one or more scenarios for example, driving down employee travel costs by using Skype for Business. If I were a member of the project team for Office 365 at one of our customers, I would not be able to contain my excitement for driving change in the business. There is opportunity! The following bullets outline just a few of the opportunities that are in front of us all:

In my discussions with many customers, I encounter IT Pros who are concerned about what the cloud and devops will mean to their careers.

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If you are an IT Pro in an organization who is moving to Office 365 (or to the cloud, or to a devops approach), I would encourage you to figure out where you want to focus. I like the idea of using Office 365 as a conduit to get back to our dreams of changing the business/world for the better using technology.

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I always say that none of us got into IT so we could manually patch servers on the weekends, and none of us dreamed about sitting on outage bridges in the middle of the night.Вќ On the contrary, most of us got into IT so we could drive cool innovation and cool outcomes with innovative use of technology.

We all need to look at the opportunities to do new things by using the features and the data provided by the Office 365 service to drive business value rather than looking at what we will no longer do or what we will do differently. However, in order for IT to help drive those programs with (and for) the business, we need to make sure that the IT Pros and the IT organization are optimized (and are excited) to drive the business improvements. We all want to evolve IT to be more about driving those business-improvement projects. This category is about the business rather than about IT. The opportunity is to use Office 365 to drive productivity for your cookie-making users, to increase market share of your cookie business, or to reduce costs of producing or selling your cookies. If you are in the cookie-making business, then the focus should be on making cookies. The whole point of the 'Business Consumption and Productivity'Вќ category is to focus on the higher-order business projects for whatever business you are in. In this installment of the blog series, we will dive into the 'Business Consumption and Productivity' topic.

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Part 6: IT Agility to Realize Full Cloud Value - Evergreen Management Part 5: Evolving IT for Cloud Productivity Services Part 4: Leveraging the Office 365 Service Communications API Part 2: Monitoring and Major Incident Management Part 1: Introducing Modern Service Management for Office 365 These insights and best practices are brought to you by Carroll Moon, Senior Architect for Modern Service Management. We're back with another edition of the Modern Service Management for Office 365 blog series! In this article, we review the function of IT with Office 365 and evolution of IT Pro roles for the cloud.

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