Association of Scottish Businesswomen

Empowering the ASB with Seamless Document Management and Communication using Microsoft 365.

Overview

Customer

Association of Scottish Businesswomen.

About

ASB, founded in 1995, is a not-for-profit organization with 9 affiliated groups and 1,000+ members, empowering women in business across Scotland through networking, knowledge sharing, and mentoring programs.

Sector

Non-Profit

Org. Size

Service

Technology Consulting & Delivery

Key Goals

Remote project management

Enhanced document management

Significant improvements in communication

“The team has demonstrated real dedication in analysing the issues we were facing, and they have proven to produce the best solutions relevant to our unique challenges. Our data is now much easier to use, access, and importantly secure! Our communication is better, and we are much quicker when using the different applications. The quality of the training was very good. I would recommend Appetite for its commitment to client success and bespoke services”

Lyndsey Greer Phillips, Former President.

Challenges

ASB faced several challenges with document management and communication, which included:

Difficulties in accessing files, as members often lost emails
and couldn’t share information easily.
Poor file storage and sharing, with members exceeding the
available storage space and facing additional costs.
Inadequate email system, leading to the loss of important
messages and the lack of professionalism conveyed.
Lack of remote working capabilities, which affected the
organisation’s ability to organise virtual meetings during the
coronavirus pandemic and slowed down ongoing projects.

To address these issues, the ASB sought to adopt a new, unified solution that would allow for seamless document management and communication, provide more storage space, and enable remote working capabilities.

Solutions

Appetite collaborated with ASB’s committee members to understand their document management and communication challenges. We identified Microsoft 365 as the obvious solution and migrated the data and documents to SharePoint, providing secure and intuitive access. OneDrive was also set up for secure document sharing, eliminating the need for extra emailing. Training on Outlook allowed for more efficient and organised communication, and Microsoft Teams enabled remote project management and virtual meetings.

Migration to SharePoint for document management.
Implementation of OneDrive for secure document sharing.
Training on Outlook for efficient communication.
Adoption of Microsoft Teams for remote project management and virtual meetings.

Outcomes

With the new solutions, ASB committee members can easily manage, share, and store documents, resulting in more efficient work. Communication is now organised, with email management and personal signatures conveying a professional image. Remote project
management is also now possible, allowing for virtual meetings and easier sharing of documents.

Efficient document management and sharing.
Organised communication and professional image.
Remote project management and virtual meetings.

Who We Help?

Whatever, your situation we can help you to de-risk and accelerate your M365 adoption.  

For Owners

Small team? At capacity? Don’t know where to start? Work with us and always be in the know with data at your fingertips. Save yourselves the stress so you can digitally transform your organisation and processes. Hold on to and develop talent. Identify areas for more efficiency. Stay secure and compliant and move the business forward.

For IT

Juggling with strategy and small in-house team? With a specialist partner like us we can help simplify management, achieve compliance and guide you on best practice governance and strategy, keeping data secure whilst giving people access to the insights they need.

For Finance

Overseeing a global business? Let us help you go from data to insight to action. Free up cash flow by identifying efficiencies, removing legacy systems and removing bottlenecks. Increasing real time visibility, measuring metrics, mitigating risk and achieving better compliance and transparency.

For HR

Worrying about upskilling or reskilling your talent pipeline to meet changing technology needs and digital skills shortage? Let us help you to boost productivity, knowledge sharing and wellbeing in remote workers. Deliver a best-in-class employee experience from onboarding to offboarding. Provide better access to employee voices to guide, transform and evolve.

Sectors We Have Worked In

With experience and clients across a wide range of sectors and industries, we understand the challenges you face.

Energy/Renewables 

We have core domain experience in this area, providing solutions that have transformed the way our customers manage their businesses and use their data to extract maximum value. 

Construction 

We know how important it is to support construction companies who want to rapidly digitize their processes to support off site workers and remove manual processes, avoid delays, and drive project efficiencies. 

Professional Services 

We have been trusted by customers to streamline and secure operations and develop bespoke responsive apps within Microsoft 365 to increase productivity and deliver differentiating services.

Transport & Travel 

We understand the pressure to streamline operations, reduce costs and increase efficiency. Appetite provide M365 development and support services to improve efficiency and QHSE audit and compliance.

Pharmaceutical 

From regularly working with pharma organisations, we understand the challenges to support collaboration, productivity, and paper lite initiatives to streamline processes, increase visibility and comply with regulations. 

Public Sector  

We are on the UK Government G-Cloud framework. We can support you with process transformation, employee engagement and digital working practices with a variety of solutions.  

Healthcare 

From advisory and best practice around large digital transformation programmes to out of the box and bespoke digital solutions we can help you adopt modern working practices. 

Not for Profit 

Every penny counts.  So, we help you do more with less, from licensing to better information access, tracking data for metrics and creation of dashboards all to ensure regulatory compliance.