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It used to take a company 20 years to be worth a billion dollars, now it can take just two. Industry commentators have stated that the future belongs only to the fast. New challengers, including "born in the cloud” start-ups, are disrupting markets by deploying new technologies quickly to achieve agility. For many larger organizations, the challenge is how to execute similar changes in a considered way. To reap the benefits of digital transformation, companies must understand that realizing agility and competitive advantage will look different given their greater complexity and reach. In an age of “disruption” leaders have an opportunity to reframe their ambitions. To stay competitive, organizations should pivot their thinking toward “rapid incrementalism"— looking at what defines success and altering existing structures to make the most of what they have. Instead of viewing constraints as limiting or restrictive, businesses need to realize that they can drive incredib...

Here are a few examples of ways you can get more out of your integrated Microsoft Dynamics 365 solution: Office 365 and Dynamics 365 are a powerful combination for elevating customer engagement and boosting productivity. This is especially true for the large portion of workers who are working away from the office using smartphone, tablets, and laptops. Excel: Using Excel templates, your team can automate core processes such as calculating commissions or managing forecasts. Dynamics 365 can use the data in Excel to do in-system analyses without changing applications. Outlook: By integrating Outlook, your team can add contacts from incoming emails and then track those emails even through your laptop, tablet, or phone. Create new records, view contextual information and match it up with customer information about senders, sales activities, cases, and opportunities. SharePoint and OneDrive: Your team will be able to access Microsoft Office apps within Dynamics 365, including Share...

Migrating to the cloud with Microsoft Dynamics 365’s enterprise resource platform (ERP) is a smart, strategic move to help ensure the long-term health of your company. Here are some efficiencies that organizations across a diverse spectrum of industries and sizes have reaped by implementing a cloud instance of Microsoft Dynamics 365’s ERP: Greater ROI One of the biggest benefits of employing Dynamics 365 is a direct, positive impact on ROI. On-premises ERPs incur a higher operating cost since they require greater IT support, security infrastructure, and manual updating. Cloud-based ERP platforms, on the other hand, free up your organization’s financial resources to be directed elsewhere—such as product research or innovative new customer experiences. Take geosynthetics company and Dynamics 365 customer GSE Environmental, for example. The company had been plagued for years by siloed data management systems that made correlation—and collaboration—almost impossible. Worse yet, an an...