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From Death Star to Star Performer: Elevating Objectives with Viva Goals & Copilot — 11/06/2024

From Death Star to Star Performer: Elevating Objectives with Viva Goals & Copilot

So, just the other day I was tasked with coming up with some OKRs for our new AI & Automation practice. If you don’t know what an OKR is then check this article out.

Anyway, I’ve set OKRs before and done quite a lot of work with Viva Goals before both internally at Nasstar but also with clients when implementing Viva Goals, I’ve also read quite a few books on effectively using OKRs. So I’m relatively well placed for this task but as I’m also a sucker for any new tech I thought I’d use the fairly new Copilot functionality in Viva Goals to see what its all about.

And to say I’m impressed is an understatement, it’s really REALLY good. As with anything Copilot related its not going to fully automate this process for you and you still need to work with the tool to get the right results but as with M365 Copilot it really helps with that staring at a blank page issue and I was very impressed with the starting point it gives you.

I thought this deserved a little blog post to show you how it works and for a bit of fun I thought I’d use a star wars theme for creating these OKRs 🙂

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