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Education scenario: Workforce planning

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Scenario

Using Copilot for workforce planning

Develop a comprehensive communication strategy to determine communication channels, timelines, and messaging for effective engagement.

1. Issue identification

Draft a proactive workforce strategy & plan to future proof academic programs and research success at your university.

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Benefit: Identify current research goals and academic objectives across the university to save time and avoid the need to review manually.

Assess departmental staffing needs and skills gaps, weighing-in data from HR records, budget reports, faculty profiles, feedback and enrollment projections to create a central repository.

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Benefit: Avoid manually reviewing relevant resources by using Copilot to retrieve relevant data from identified records, reports, and discussions, and summarize key insights.

Scan existing market reports such as retirement and research funding trends toward future workforce scenario modeling.

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Benefit: Quickly create customized ‘What-if’ scenarios with the identified data to expedite informed decision-making.

Create a comprehensive plan that outlines a dynamic faculty recruitment strategy with evidence to addresses the identified gaps.

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Copilot in PowerPoint

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Copilot in Word

Benefit: Copilot can help author early drafts of a faculty recruitment strategy report in Word, and help create an accompanying presentation, saving you time.

Communicate the plan and proposed recommendations with the administration team and Deans.

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Copilot in Outlook

Benefit: Let Copilot draft communication with faculty to share the future faculty recruitment strategy so you can focus on developing an action plan.

Revise the faculty recruitment strategy as needed to incorporate feedback and modify to enhance its effectiveness.

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Copilot in Word

Benefit: Document improvement areas for further refinement (e.g., performance data, faculty feedback). Have Copilot generate recommended content and reference feedback to incorporate.

KPIs

Opportunity to impact key functional area KPIs

Copilot can empower everyone to free up their time and energy to focus on what matters most. Easily adjust, summarize, and create new content using natural language.
Speed up internal communications
  • Have Copilot assist with emails
  • Draft email comms and announcements with Copilot

Copilot provides an opportunity to identify areas for improvement and makes the most of your data. Discover and dig into new insights such as budget management, enrollment trends, survey data interpretation, and more.
Process optimization
  • Copilot assists with drafting mails
  • Analyze data and create actionable insights
  • Collaborate with Teams and rapidly create proposals

Copilot can help personalize learning by easily adapting content, simplifying complex topics, and helping students fully participate. Students can benefit from personalized 24/7 support, initial feedback on their work, and assistance getting started.
Improve quality of learning content
  • Improve learning content
  • Improve quality of emails and chats

Amplify your creativity by bringing your ideas to life with custom-generated images, presentations, and an agent for productivity. Copilot also takes collaboration to the next level to help you stay connected and able to achieve more together.
Improve quality of learning content
  • Improve learning content
  • Improve quality of emails and chats

The content in this example scenario is for demonstration purposes only. You should evaluate how Copilot aligns with your organization’s business processes, regulatory requirements, and responsible AI principles.