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Plan

Gather your team and make a plan.

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Implement

Get Copilot in the hands of your people.

Pick your people

Adopt

Nurture a learning community.

Turn on your community

Manage

Review results and resolve issues.

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Improve on what you've delivered to your users by leveraging the Copilot Success Kit. Click here to explore the kit

Learn from customers

See how other customers are using Copilot.

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Microsoft 365 Copilot adoption planning checklist

Gather your team and use this checklist to begin your planning process. Import it into Microsoft Lists or add additional content as needed in your organization. Click here to download a version of this checklist in Excel.

  1. Identify your Executive Sponsor for your AI transformation. This person will help explain to all employees why you are rolling out Copilot in your company.
  2. Build your team. Bring together business leaders, your IT people and those who will run the community and focus on skilling your people.
  3. Pick your Champions and early adopters. Your Champions will help business users use Copilot. Select business users who have a process or department in common and that are willing to onboard first.
  4. Complete the technical readiness. Have your IT team deploy licenses and make sure Copilot is available in Microsoft Teams, Outlook and Office applications. Use our FastTrack team and readiness guides to help with this and all technical readiness.
  5. Nurture a learning community. Communicate with your business users giving them example prompts, sharing resources, encouragement and conducting training sessions.
  6. Monitor your usage and talk your staff. Prioritize understanding how to continuously improve their experience and the organizations results.
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Pick your people and deploy Copilot licenses

Pick your people

Select your early adopters – users who will use new capabilities and share feedback.

Deploy licenses

You can manage Microsoft 365 Copilot licenses in the Microsoft 365 admin center. You can assign to individual users or to groups of users, and also reassign licenses to other users.

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Nurture a learning community

A Community of Practice generates excitement, encourages sharing learnings, and supports future Copilot Champions and experts.

We recommend using the Copilot community template in Microsoft Viva Engage for enterprise organizations already utilizing Viva Engage, but small/medium business may opt for Microsoft Teams or other community chat tools.

Use your community to host training sessions, share prompts, answer common quesitons and provide encouragenent as people learn these new skills,

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Review results and resolve issues

Review user feedback

Review success measures. Conduct user feedback surveys and review results. Gather and amplify success stories. Address user training issues and resolve common challenges based on this data,

Perform Service Health Reviews

Service health reviews are where the implementation team and business stakeholders come together to review the insights from their AI transformation projects. Use the Microsoft 365 Admin Center and the Copilot Dashboard data for these check-ins along with insights from the prior step.

Discuss opportunities for further improvements and prioritize activities in these action oriented, roundtable sessions.

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Dive deeper with the Copilot Success Kit

For enterprise

Ready to go deeper? Our Copilot Success Kit features how-to resources organized by role to help you streamline and accelerate your time to value with Copilot.

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For SMB

Are you a small/medium business? Check out our Copilot Success Kit for SMB, which boils the kit down to the critical components.

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