How to Stop Drowning in Documents with Ashvini Sharma | EP02 | Perspectives

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Welcome to Perspectives —the series where your real business challenges take center stage, explored alongside the Microsoft leaders working to solve them.

In Episode 2, host Stephanie Cronin sits down with Ashvini Sharma, Director of Product Management, Copilot Studio, with a special appearance by Ryan Cunningham, to tackle one of the most universal challenges facing organizations today: How do you stop spending so much time on documents and focus on the work that actually matters?

From rethinking whether documents need to exist at all, to building intelligent apps and agents that bypass manual processes, this episode explores what it takes to reclaim your team's time — and their focus.

What You'll Hear:

Why Ashvini's first move with document overload is to ask: "Do you really need those documents, or can you have different processes instead?"
How Copilot Studio and the Power Platform let you replace manual document workflows with intelligent apps, agents, and automations
Two key scenarios: using AI to summarize and synthesize information across Teams, SharePoint, and Outlook — and automating business process documents end to end
Ryan Cunningham's challenge to every organization: "Where are the places where we're spending the most time on the least impactful content?"
Why thinking about the platform as an end-to-end system — combining apps, agents, and automations — is the key to applying AI where it adds the most value

Timestamps:
0:00 – Teaser: "How do I focus on the stuff that actually matters?"
0:12 – Welcome to Perspectives with Stephanie Cronin
0:31 – Meet Ashvini Sharma: The community's challenge — too much time on documents
0:48 – Two clusters: personal document overload and business process automation
1:49 – Where organizations lose the most time with documents
2:42 – Rethinking whether documents need to exist at all
3:06 – Bringing AI into the story: apps, agents, and automations
4:05 – The platform as an end-to-end system
4:54 – Ryan Cunningham steps in: Signal vs. noise
5:58 – Closing: Submit your business challenge for the next episode

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it could be featured in a future episode of Perspectives!

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