Other Australian companies are already using Microsoft Copilot to save time on work and free up resources for higher-value tasks.
You should be too.
When business and technology landscapes begin to shift and reshape in new ways, business leaders start looking even harder at where savings and efficiency gains can be made and what technology has to offer.
Microsoft Copilot, Microsoft’s AI-powered search assistant, is designed to revolutionise the way we source, collate and generate information. Microsoft Copilot 365, Microsoft Copilot’s powerhouse add-on, introduces an entirely new way to bring together, process and produce information from outside our organisation’s boundaries and emmesh that with information held across and within in it.
How Copilot Saves Your Team Time
With its advancing AI capabilities, Copilot can save your team significant time each day, particularly in getting work to first-draft status. Here’s how:
Streamlined Document Creation
One of the most time-consuming tasks in any organisation is document creation. Whether it’s drafting reports, proposals, or meeting agendas, the initial drafting phase can be time, resource and knowledge-intensive. Microsoft Copilot simplifies and accelerates this process by:
- Automating Content Generation: Copilot can generate initial drafts based on minimal input. For instance, by providing a few key points, Copilot can create a comprehensive first draft, saving hours of research, cross-referencing, compilation and writing.
- Contextual Understanding: Copilot can learn from your past work and understand the context of what you are trying to achieve, ensuring that the generated content is relevant, coherent and tailored to the specific prompt you provide. This reduces the need for extensive revisions and re-edits.
Enhanced Collaboration
Collaboration is key to progressing every successful project to completion. But coordinating input from multiple stakeholders can be challenging. Copilot facilitation coordination and collaboration with:
- Real-Time Suggestions: As team members work on a document, Copilot provides real-time suggestions and improvements, ensuring that the content is polished and professional.
- Seamless Integration: Copilot integrates across Microsoft 365 applications, allowing for transfers and links across Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and more. This integration ensures that all team members are on the same page, figuratively and literally.
Personalised Assistance
Every organisation is unique, and so are its needs. Copilot offers personalized assistance by:
- Learning Preferences: Copilot learns from user interactions, tailoring its suggestions and outputs to match individual preferences, but also align with organisational standards.
- Task Automation: Routine tasks, such as scheduling meetings, note taking, summaries or sending follow-up emails, can be automated by Copilot, freeing up valuable time. Out with the admin and in with the productive work!
Intelligent Data Analysis
Unless you’ve got solid stream of live data that tells you the true story, you’re flying blind. In the meantime, your competitors, who’ve already leant into data-driven decision-making, are approaching your clients with laser-vision goggles on! Copilot helps you cut through all the fluff at speed and scale by:
- Automating Data Insights: Copilot can analyse large Excel or other datasets and generate insightful summaries, charts, and graphs. This capability saves hours that would otherwise be spent on manual data manipulation and presentation.
- Predictive Analytics: Because Copilot is learning along the way, Copilot will provide better and better predictive insights and suggestions that will help businesses anticipate trends and be ready to jump on them.
Envisage Copilot’s Potential in Your World
Consider a scenario where a team of five spends an average of two hours per day on drafting documents, proposals, and reports or presentations. With Copilot, this time could be reduced by as much as 50%, saving the team a total of five hours per day. Over a month, this translates to 100 hours saved.
Imagine the type of higher value work this team could power through with an extra 100 hours of resource time per month to play with…not to mention the impact some 100 extra hours of billable time might have on the top line!
Explore Copilot’s Impact in the Real World
Here are some examples of Australian companies already embracing the future of work with Microsoft Copilot and unlocking unprecedented levels of efficiency and productivity.
Microsoft 365 Copilot in the Public Sector
The Australian Government conducted a trial of Microsoft 365 Copilot, which revealed that participants experienced notable productivity gains. Specifically, Copilot contributed to time savings in tasks related to summarisation, information searches, and preparing first drafts, with an estimated time savings of around an hour a day for these tasks.
The Digital Transformation Agency reported an “average” time saving of an hour per user per day. The lands the aggregate weekly time saving at well above the Federal Treasury calculated 13-minute per week time saving required before the licenses “paid for themselves”.
Microsoft 365 Copilot in the Construction and Engineering Sectors
In the construction and engineering sectors, companies like John Holland and GHD have reported promising time savings. They found that Copilot for Microsoft 365 saved between 30 and 60 minutes per person per day, translating to 10-20 hours saved per person per month. This has helped speed up processes like completing request-for-proposal documents.
Microsoft 365 Copilot in the Legal Services Sector
The law firm MinterEllison has also seen significant benefits from adopting Copilot for Microsoft 365. Initial survey results indicated that at least half of its users saved a whopping two to five hours per day, with one out of five saving at least five hours per day. This has allowed them to rethink meetings, start document generation faster, and optimise email management.
Let’s explore how Microsoft Copilot integrated across the Microsoft 365 suite of apps and services could be saving your business resource dollars, time and overhead every day! Contact us to lock in an Executive Briefing & Demo to get started!
