That is not only a big time waster but it also means that we have less focus for really value-adding work. If you want to know the current state of affairs, you first have to ask the person who has been entrusted with it. Unfortunately, this has the big disadvantage that we always make each other a bottleneck. Coming from a world where we have learned for 20 years to do everything with Email, it is perfectly natural for my clients to forward tasks to each other via email.

But what does that mean exactly? It means for example to unstick from abusing e-mail for taskmanagement. To be able to use Office 365 in a way that actually helps us be more productive, have more time to focus on what’s important rather than being just busy, we not only need to use new tools, but also fundamentally change the way we work. Office Drama sticker Woman with speechbubble: “It depends” Unstick from Email The answer I need to give on the question “Hey Luise, what shall we use for task management?” always seems to be: It depends! Although Microsoft seems to give a lot of information about this, at least some customers remain at a loss. They really struggle with making it easy to decide or even feel natural, which tool to use when. When I talk to customers, they often express a feeling of being drowned in a sea of tools, not only by Microsoft but also by tools of other vendors, too. Sketched Swiss Army Knife entitled with “Office 365” Microsofts Office 365 is so often compared to a Swiss Army knife - pretty handy, absolutely versatile and very practical to use - if you know how to use it right and if you know which tool meets your needs and the needs of the ones you work with. The Swiss Army Knife - and the confusion about it

It just matters, what you want to achieve and what is the business case behind your wish list. So many choices, which isn’t a bad thing.

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