What Workforce Capacity is Hiding Inside Your Microsoft 365 Environment? Organizations are spending billions on AI, automation platforms, agents, copilots, and digital transformation initiatives. Yet one question is rarely asked first: How much work can the environment you already own absorb before another dollar is spent? That question sits at the [...]
What if the U.S. Federal Government recovered just 1% more work capacity? The U.S. federal government employs 2.674 million civilian workers. WFDI Show & Tell #3 asks a simple question: what if just 1% more of that existing work capacity could be recovered? Not through layoffs. Not through a hiring freeze. Through [...]
Did Aon Acquire 10,500 Employees, or Nearly 7,300 FTEs of Recoverable Capacity? Aon’s $17 billion acquisition of USI adds 10,500 employees to a much larger combined workforce. But the more important question is: how much overlapping and spreadsheet-mediated work comes with the transaction? This WFDI Show & Tell models the recoverable capacity [...]
The Hidden Workforce Inside Companies You Know Most companies respond to workforce pressure by hiring more people, buying more technology, or asking their existing workforce to do more. WFDI starts somewhere different: What if the capacity your organization needs is already there, hidden inside the work? [...]
Who Owns the Future of Work? (CHRO) A Board-Level Perspective on AI, Work Capital, and Executive Accountability. For three decades, we treated every major shift as a technology problem. Digital transformation focused on systems. Cloud focused on infrastructure. Data focused on information. AI is different. AI doesn't primarily change [...]
"AI" will get your TIME Back. “AI” will save you TIME! I think I want to talk a little bit about TIME… You got time for that? Oh yea, “I GOT TIME FOR THAT?" When was the last time you heard this statement at work? What would you [...]
Leveraging Data Automation to Solve Staffing Problems A REAL-WORLD EXERCISE EXAMPLE - LEVERAGING DATA AUTOMATION TO SOLVE STAFFING PROBLEMS. Leveraging data automation from a business perspective to solve staffing problems is a very sensitive subject. Especially when it breaches the area of augmenting and replacing employee duties and responsibilities [...]
Five Opportunities releases General AI and Microsoft COPILOT Artificial Intelligence (AI) IMPACT Workshop or Assessment. Artificial Intelligence (AI) IMPACT Workshop or Assessment Everyone wants to know more about the Artificial Intelligence (AI) movement and how it can impact their individual business. The best way to find out is [...]
Chief Data & Analytic Officers Personalized Business Strategy Resources. Five Opportunities is filling the business strategy gap for data leaders through a complete set of Personalized Business Strategy Resources specifically developed to help support and alleviate the burden from the business strategy side of the CDAO’s job. Forward thinking [...]
The result from becoming more effective at leveraging data is TIME. If you become more effective at leveraging data, what does that mean? "TIME" The result from becoming more effective at leveraging data is TIME. Your TIME is your most valuable resource. TIME is the only non-renewable resource. [...]