Executive technology advisory

Make Microsoft 365 and AI work for the business.

Many organizations have already purchased the licenses and started the pilots. The harder part is deciding where the technology fits, who owns it, what controls are needed, and how results will be measured.

Beldon Group helps answer those questions across Microsoft 365, Copilot, Dynamics 365, Dataverse, and AI. The objective is to make the technology useful without creating another platform the organization cannot govern or support.

200,000+ associatesWalgreens global environment
160,000 employeesAbbott global company scale
135,000 usersAbbott Microsoft Teams deployment
120,000 mailboxesAllstate messaging environment
Where clients bring us in

The problems we help organizations solve.

The technology is rarely the only issue. Most of these efforts slow down because no one has clear authority to make decisions or responsibility for what happens after deployment.

Problem 01

Copilot is moving forward without clear ownership

Licenses have been assigned and pilots are underway. The organization still has not settled who owns the program, which use cases matter, what information Copilot can reach, or how success will be measured.

Problem 02

Microsoft 365 changes faster than the organization can review it

Roadmap and Message Center updates reach several technical and business teams, but no one has a consistent process for reviewing the impact and assigning the work.

Problem 03

Dynamics 365 contains useful data, but managers still cannot see what needs attention

Opportunities are stale, next steps are missing, seller follow-up is inconsistent, and pipeline reviews depend on people manually reconstructing what happened.

Problem 04

The strategy was approved, but execution has stalled

The roadmap exists, but the decisions and resources needed to execute it are still unresolved.

Consulting practices

Where Beldon Group can help.

Beldon Group focuses on three areas where organizations often need senior guidance before committing to a large implementation.

Practice 01

Microsoft 365 and Copilot strategy

Help leadership decide where Microsoft 365 and Copilot fit, who owns the services, what risks need attention, and how adoption will be measured.

  • Platform governance and ownership
  • Copilot use-case priorities
  • Security and information protection
  • Adoption and measurement
  • Roadmap and Message Center review
Practice 02

AI workflows and agents

Review a business process, determine whether AI will materially improve it, and identify the controls required before it reaches production.

  • Process and use-case review
  • Data and access architecture
  • Read-only pilot
  • Human approval
  • Production and support plan
Practice 03

Dynamics 365 sales operations

Help sales and CRM leaders identify pipeline risk, improve follow-up, and get more reliable management information from Dynamics 365.

  • Opportunity and pipeline health
  • Missing next steps and follow-up
  • Manager inspection and escalation
  • Dataverse and workflow design
  • Reporting and leadership visibility
Ways to engage

Start with the problem.

Each engagement starts with work the client needs to move forward. That may be a decision, a roadmap, a pilot, or a working management process.

Microsoft 365 and Copilot Strategy Sprint

Review the current Microsoft 365 and Copilot program, identify the gaps, and determine what leadership should address over the next 90 days.

Deliverables: Findings, priority use cases, governance recommendations, risk backlog, adoption plan, 90-day roadmap, and executive briefing.

AI Workflow Pilot

Select one business process and test whether AI can improve it before committing to a larger implementation.

Deliverables: Read-only prototype, data-flow design, business rules, approval process, risk findings, and recommendation for the next phase.

Microsoft 365 Change Radar

Review Microsoft changes before they reach users, determine which teams are affected, and assign the required technical, security, communication, and adoption work.

Deliverables: Monthly executive brief, assigned technical actions, security and compliance reviews, communication items, and decision log.

Dynamics 365 Sales Operations Review

Evaluate where CRM data, seller activity, and management review are breaking down.

Deliverables: Opportunity assessment, data-quality rules, management review model, integration findings, and a recommendation on whether to proceed with a Command Center pilot.

Beldon Group systems

Built from problems that keep repeating.

The Change Intelligence System and Sales Operations Command Center address two problems that show up repeatedly: too much Microsoft change for teams to review consistently, and too little management visibility into what is happening inside the sales process.

Both can start as a focused advisory engagement. Where the need justifies it, they can also be delivered as a managed service or private application.

Microsoft 365 Change Intelligence

Review Microsoft changes before they become surprises.

Microsoft ships more change than most organizations can evaluate consistently. Change Intelligence identifies what matters, who is affected, who owns the response, and what needs to happen before the change reaches users.

Sales Operations Command Center

Show sales leaders where attention is needed.

Dynamics 365 does not always provide enough context by itself. The Command Center combines CRM and Microsoft 365 activity to identify stale opportunities, missing next steps, follow-up gaps, and records that need management review.

Enterprise experience

Experience leading technology at global scale.

Beldon Group brings more than 20 years of enterprise Microsoft platform, architecture, governance, security, migration, and modernization experience to client work.

The environments have been large and complex. At Walgreens, the messaging and collaboration architecture supported 28,000 corporate users and more than 200,000 retail associates. At Allstate, the messaging environment included 120,000 mailboxes. At Abbott, the worldwide Microsoft Teams deployment reached more than 135,000 employees.

That scale matters because governance, security, adoption, and support work differently in a large enterprise. Beldon Group brings that experience into the engagement without forcing every client into a large implementation program.

Microsoft 365 transformation

Microsoft Teams strategy, architecture, governance, and adoption for more than 135,000 employees.

The work also included a 22,000-user, 250 TB OneDrive migration that retired legacy infrastructure and achieved approximately 90 percent user satisfaction.

Acquisition integration

Messaging and collaboration integration after a major acquisition.

The integration covered 49,000 mailboxes and approximately 28,000 Skype users. Responsibilities included architecture, email routing, identity alignment, migration, security, operational readiness, and business continuity.

Microsoft 365 governance

A recurring process for reviewing Microsoft Roadmap and Message Center changes before they reached users.

Microsoft 365 engineering worked with Legal, Security, Compliance, Communications, Information Governance, and business stakeholders. Each change had an assigned owner, a defined review path, and a recorded decision.

Beldon Group Microsoft 365 Change Radar preview
Latest Change Radar

What changed, why it matters, what to do next.

Microsoft releases more changes than most organizations can properly review. Change Radar narrows the list to the items with a real business, technical, security, or compliance impact. Each issue explains what changed, who should review it, and what action may be required.

Practical guides

Practical Microsoft 365 and AI guidance.

Straight answers to questions technology leaders and platform teams are dealing with now.

Decision guide

Which Copilot should I use?

Start with the work that needs to be completed, then choose the simplest Copilot, agent, or workflow that can finish it.

Prompt quality

How to write a better AI request

State the outcome, identify the source material, describe the final deliverable, and be clear about what requires approval.

Cost control

How to control AI cost

Use the simplest tool that can complete the task. Limit the information it has to process, and understand the cost before making the workflow larger.

Why Beldon Group

Start with the problem before committing to the solution.

Beldon Group helps organizations understand where things stand, what is not working, and which decisions need to be made before a larger implementation begins.

The work may include strategy, architecture, governance, a focused pilot, or coordination with specialized implementation resources. The scope is based on what the organization needs, not a predetermined technology sale.

Contact

Tell us what you are trying to solve.

Share where things stand, what is getting in the way, and what you need to accomplish.

The first conversation is used to understand where things stand and determine whether Beldon Group is the right resource for the work.