I'm really excited that my great friend Liz Pham and I will be presenting at DynamicsCon Virtual 2024 on November 13th! Thank you to all those who voted for our session "The Magic of Value : Revealing the Secrets"

Come along and not only will you'll learn the secrets behind the magic of value and but you'll also have some fun and see some AMAZING magic performed right in front of your eyes!

🧝‍♀️ Define value and reveal what the audience will see.
🧝‍♀️ Engage stakeholders to position the trick and set expectations.
🧝‍♀️ Design the 'magic' with people, process, and technology.
🧝‍♀️ Execute with Flair! Perform the trick with showmanship to involve the audience.

A podcast recorded on 20th Sept 24 with John R Rymer (who coined the term 'low-code' in 2014) and Dave Marcus from Analysis.tech .

Their podcast has had sessions with vendors across the low-code space… CEOs, C-Suite, and Execs from Low-code platforms such as Appian, Mendix, Betty Blocks, Camunda, Work-Relay, Celonis, Pega, Bizagi, Quickbase, Outsystems, ServiceNow, Oracle, UIPath, Automation Anywhere, Joget… and… Me! 🤩😁

We spoke about being a ‘Power Ranger’ in GSK, and my ‘origin story’ that brought me to Avanade to help organisations establish governance and guardrails around their lowcode platforms, and then how to enable value across the organisation through solutions ranging from personal productivity to enterprise scale!

Real World Stories:

I’ll be introducing a couple of groups I’ve been working with to the community to share their stories and successes.

• SSE Renewables energising their organisation with Power Platform

• Virgin Money Power Rangers transforming UK Banking

Is AI going to take my job? Maybe?! Practical advice for getting ahead of the curve! with Simon Owen

A Fireside chat with Jake Thomson (Microsoft Global Black Belt - US Health & Life Sciences) and Tyler Blitz (Avanade NA Healthcare Lead) talking about how to Accelerate your AI Copilot Readiness

This time, Janet Robb and I had the absolute pleasure to spend some time with the fabulous Simon Owen, Group Manager at Avanade for Global Power Platform, who, not only has an incredibly diverse career history, but balances a professional role with the care of approximately 15 chickens and a friendly cat, Lola.

Simon's extensive experience revolves around helping customers establish effective Microsoft Power Platform strategies, emphasising the significance of vision and strategy while driving adoption. His impressive track record includes building a thriving community of 4,500 Power Rangers during his time at GSK, showcasing his exceptional community-building talents.

I was really pleased to recently be invited to speak to Mark Smith on the Power Platform Show about Power Platform Centre of Enablement and ideas on how to grow adoption - I hope you enjoy the podcast! :)

Presenter(s): Liz Pham & Simon Owen

Session Description: Across this wonderful community we inspire each other, we learn from each other, we encourage and inspire each other to try things, to do more. Together, we create a movement. But how? How do we infect people with excitement to have a desire for change? How does that turn into a movement? We'll cover principals of viral change to turn a Power Platform maker movement into a pandemic and show you how to use the same viral change principles to change behaviors and grow adoption of Power Platform in ANY organization.

Power Apps are fantastic, but we need to remember that they are only 1 part of a massively impressive PLATFORM! In this session, we want to look beyond the app and talk about what REALLY matters in the Power Platform. We will break some of the molds and set you up with a different pattern of thought to gain actual value from the complete epicness of the Power Platform.

Presented by: Liz Pham, Simon Owen, and Chris Huntingford

Agile Cultural Change - One Superhero at a Time

Enterprise Cultural Change is HARD! Digital Transformation is pretty tricky too! A corporate ambition, strategy and direction is key but how do we also effectively engage the rest of the organisation at all levels to make it real, understandable, and inspire and excite people to be part of, drive, and embed, the change?

Microsoft Business Application Summit (MBAS) 2019 - Real World Stories: Manufacturing companies embrace lean development with Microsoft PowerApps

Simon Owen's IT team at GSK, a global consumer healthcare manufacturing company, embraced the Power Platform to shed old ways of working in favor of a lean mindset. They've inspired a rapidly growing organic community of "power rangers" within GSK to build solutions faster than ever before.