Measures & KPIs, Purpose Simon Owen Measures & KPIs, Purpose Simon Owen

Measures and KPIs

Power Platform Measures & KPIs - In business we have a love affair with measures and KPIs. We often measure a lot! Some might say we sometimes measure too much… and it’s not always clear WHY we are measuring those things? Who is actually looking at those measures and what do they do with them? Let’s take a look at measures and where we can start with our Power Platform adoption!

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Change Management, Purpose Simon Owen Change Management, Purpose Simon Owen

Viral Change

Viral Change is a method of creating pull and attract people to the Power Platform! We want people to see what’s being done, how someone is doing it, recognise the value in doing it, join in and become part of something, and to call to their friends and colleagues to encourage them to join too, and where possible to have fun doing it too! But how? I’ll tell you in this week’s blog post! 😁

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Strategy, Purpose Simon Owen Strategy, Purpose Simon Owen

Vision & Strategy

How do we define a vision and strategy for our Power Platform Implementation? Then break that down into a roadmap of goals which we can translate down into a series of aligned activities to achieve our vision over time.

So… Where to start… The approach I’m going to use to break this down is to talk about Vision, Strategy, Roadmap, and OKRs and we’re going to think about Power Platform in our organisation as a ‘Product’ rather than a ‘Project’.

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Value, Strategy, Purpose Simon Owen Value, Strategy, Purpose Simon Owen

PP Value Hypothesis

When we tend to talk about ‘Value’ we usually hear conversations about how much time the thing saves… How much lower costs are… How output has been increased… How quality has been improved… These are all types of value and they’re all valid an important. But there’s more to consider here… MUCH more!

In this post I’m going to explain how I think about value of the power platform and how we maximise it!

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Strategy, Purpose Simon Owen Strategy, Purpose Simon Owen

PP Enablement - My view of the world

Power Platform Enablement is the framework and approach we set and follow to systematically unlock the value of the Power Platform. Using some of the principles of more traditional change management approaches, coupled with ‘Viral Change’ techniques we can help change behaviours and support the success of Citizen Developers!

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Strategy, Purpose Simon Owen Strategy, Purpose Simon Owen

CoE vs CoEn

Have you considered how a Centre of Excellence (CoE) and Centre of Enablement (CoEn) are critical to enabling value from the Power Platform in an organisation? Just having the platform configured safely and securely isn’t enough. We need to also unlock value!

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