Energy and Resources scenario: Streamline electric vehicle charging business development
Available with: Microsoft 365 Copilot Scenario level:
KPIs impacted
Market development
Value benefit
Increase revenue
Using Copilot to streamline electric vehicle charging business development
1. Assess the opportunity
Get data on shopping malls to assess the EV charging opportunity. How many shopping malls are in the [location] metropolitan area? How many customers in and out daily? How many parking spaces do they have and how many EV chargers are there?
Business Chat1
Benefit: Quickly find public data to help assess the size of the opportunity in terms of potential customers.
2. Analyze the market potential
To understand the potential of the opportunity, the business developer asks Copilot how many electric vehicle in the [location] metropolitan area and how was the growth over the past 3 years. Then asks Copilot in Excel to create a chart with a 5-year outlook of the opportunity potential.
Copilot in Excel
Benefit: Easily create a 5-year forecast and chart of the potential revenues without in-depth Excel knowledge.
3. Draft an executive presentation
The Business Developer asks the narrative builder Copilot in Power Point to draft an executive presentation. Why commercial EV charging stations would be valuable for a retail company, including how it will help attract customers and increase foot traffic and sales.
Copilot in PowerPoint
Benefit: Quickly create a draft of a presentation to present the opportunity at next executive meeting.
4. Improve the presentation
Using Copilot, the business developer keeps improving the presentation by adding images and by revising few key slides using recap from internal brainstorming meetings. Then he asks Copilot to a add a new slide on market potential using an internal marketing research report.
Copilot in PowerPoint
Benefits: Improve the presentation from your notes, documents and market research.
5. Prepare to present the opportunity
The Business Developer asks Copilot in Word to generate the draft of the speech to present the opportunity to top management.
Copilot in Word
Benefits: Ask Copilot to create a draft of your speech from the current presentation.
1Access Copilot at copilot.microsoft.com or the Microsoft Copilot mobile app and set toggle to “Web”.
2Access Business Chat at copilot.microsoft.com or the Microsoft Copilot mobile app and set toggle to “Web”.
3Copilot agents allow Microsoft 365 Copilot to access your company-specific apps. In the past, this would have required an API call to get data from a system of record. 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.
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.
