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Maximilian Kenfenheuer

Manager · Microsoft 365 & AI Transformation @ BearingPoint

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Measuring Completed Work: Baselines, Assisted Hours and Business Outcomes

Thursday, September 10, 2026 · Maximilian Kenfenheuer

A team can generate thousands of prompts without improving a single core process. Another uses AI rarely but saves hours in contract review. Microsoft increasingly measures Copilot value by completed work and assisted hours instead of activity. Its internal guidance recommends baselines for painful processes before the rollout. In this article, I describe a three-layer measurement model of adoption signals, time and effort indicators and business outcomes, and explain why role-based deployment makes value measurable.

Power BI Grounding: Copilot Reasons Over Semantic Models

Wednesday, September 9, 2026 · Maximilian Kenfenheuer

Since the August 2026 update, Microsoft 365 Copilot reasons over Power BI reports and semantic models in Chat and Cowork. Copilot thus works with governed business definitions: how revenue is defined, how margin is calculated, which KPIs leadership uses and who may see which numbers. At the same time, a poorly defined KPI now spreads faster. In this article, I explain why semantic models become the foundation for trustworthy AI answers and how organizations can prepare their analytics layer.

From Draft to Deliverable: Agentic Copilot in the Core Apps

Saturday, September 5, 2026 · Maximilian Kenfenheuer

On April 22, Microsoft made agentic capabilities in Word, Excel and PowerPoint generally available and brought business apps into Copilot via agents. AI moves to where proposals are written, financial models built and board decks assembled. At the same time, human judgment gains weight: a polished deck is not automatically a sound strategy, and a well-structured spreadsheet is not automatically a correct model. In this article, I explain what changes when AI participates in the work and which five readiness questions organizations should answer.

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Microsoft Scout and Persistent AI: Identity and Device Management as Prerequisites

Friday, September 4, 2026 · Maximilian Kenfenheuer

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Many governance models were built for chat usage. Microsoft Scout, an always-on personal Autopilot agent across Teams, Outlook, OneDrive and SharePoint, requires more: admin enablement, Intune policy configuration and attestation, because parts of the preview involve data flows outside Microsoft 365. Identity and device management thus become part of AI readiness. In this article, I explain what distinguishes persistent from interactive AI and which four questions organizations should answer before the rollout.

Copilot Tasks: AI That Works in the Background and Asks Before Acting

Wednesday, August 26, 2026 · Maximilian Kenfenheuer

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With Copilot Tasks, AI works in the background with its own browser, runs tasks once, on a schedule or recurring, and reports back when the work is done. Before sending messages or spending money, it asks for consent. Tasks starts as a research preview. The signal for enterprises is clear: users will soon expect AI to do things, not only to describe them. In this article, I explain which tasks suit this execution model, where approval boundaries belong and how to measure success.

The Copilot Interface as a Governance Surface

Wednesday, August 19, 2026 · Maximilian Kenfenheuer

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With the May update, Microsoft redesigned how Copilot appears across Microsoft 365. As Copilot takes on more actions, the interface has to show what the AI does, which context it uses and what requires human review. The interface thus becomes a governance surface as well as a productivity surface. In this article, I explain why workflow fit belongs in adoption planning and why change management should target concrete moments of work instead of features.

Capability Expansion with Copilot: Judgment Gains Value

Wednesday, August 12, 2026 · Maximilian Kenfenheuer

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According to Microsoft's Work Trend Index, 66 % of AI users spend more time on high-value work, and 58 % produce work they could not have produced a year ago. For organizations, the question therefore shifts from task acceleration to capability expansion. AI takes over more execution. People set the intent, judge quality and decide what happens next. In this article, I explain why this model needs different metrics, workflows and management, and why judgment gains value as execution gets easier.

In-Chat App Execution: Shortening the Path from Answer to Action

Sunday, July 26, 2026 · Maximilian Kenfenheuer

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AI now produces answers quickly. Finishing the actual work still means leaving the chat, opening another application and rebuilding context. Microsoft's April update for Microsoft 365 Copilot targets this gap. Agents connected to Adobe Express, Figma, Miro, monday.com, Box or Dynamics now appear directly in the Copilot conversation. Users can act there instead of switching tabs. In this article, I explain why this orchestration layer may matter more to enterprises than further gains in answer quality, and which governance questions IT has to settle first.