According to Cloud Adoption 2018 War report by Bitglass, the usage of Office 365 among organizations globally has reached over 56% in 2018, up from 34% in 2016.

Office 365 is a rapidly growing technology platform for enabling collaboration. Because of the great features such as security, reliability, Microsoft Office 365 apps, and SharePoint Online, organizations are inclined towards Office 365. Additionally, the incredible amount of value it adds with collaboration between individual employees, teams and departments is fueling the investment in Office 365 suite.

According to Gartner, 33% of businesses will adopt cloud-based office suites by 2017 and 60% by 2022.

Yet, many organizations are struggling with O365 adoption which is taking a toll on the investment made. Success factors impacting Office 365 adoption has to do with multiple reasons including the resistance of adopting the new technology among staff.

While your IT team is pouring in its best efforts to ensure an error-free deployment, there seems to be an unnoticed gap building between the end users and their adoption of new technology. Often IT teams fail to make the users realise the promising benefits that a technology platform like Office 365 can bring in.

Most strategies behind technology initiative come with an expectation of noticing results from day one of successful implementation. But businesses fail to understand that just turning on the efficient technology switch to enable collaboration does not guarantee adoption on the fly.

Motivating your team to adopt new technology has to counterstrike employee resistance to change and bring in acceptance. Much of Office365 value and ROI is justified when employees understand and adopt the technology that has been implemented.

So how can you drive faster, sustainable and effective o365 adoption? Go through below tips to ensure a successful Office 365 adoption.