The newest shiny tool won’t fix your processes.
I love the newest gadget, tinkering and playing around with it, finding all of it’s features. It’s so full of potential to change so many things in my life.
But what actually happens is it sits on my desk rarely used or as a new toy for me to fidget with.
That could look like a good purchase because it’s visible and is being used, but when you look deeper I’m not using it to it’s fullest potential because I never recognised the place it could have to be helpful when I was thinking of buying it.
It’s the same adding new software to our stack, the sales person promises the world with what it can do, we promise our teams it’ll make the difference to their workload, it get’s deployed and people start playing with it.
But now less work is actually getting done because the team are having to figure out how to use it, work is being duplicated because they’re also trying to keep their old way going just in case the new one doesn’t work out.
AND we’re paying more money for a tool that is actually slowing down the team.
On average only half of the M365 suite is utilised by those using the M365 ecosystem, the basics are being used: Outlook, Word, Excel. But the high impact tools are not: Power Automate, PowerApps, Planner, Bookings, Forms, Power BI.
And i get it, MS don’t make things the simplest to get started with or maybe they’re not as feature rich as a third party tool, but is the cost of the third party tool worth that 1 feature you’re looking for? Or are you buying another tool you’ll only use a fraction of because you’re not event maximising your current tools?
So before you implement the newest, shiniest tool, analyse what you already have because it’ll likely have similar features without an additional price tag.
