Category: Modern Workplace

Improving business workflow with system automation.

Let’s start here… Imagine a large array of gears. Each gear is representative of a process that is critical to your business. If one of those gears moves a little slower than the others, your entire system may be affected. So what is a business/business unit to do if there are processes that are negatively impacting the business? What is one to do if one of the gears in the array is moving slowly? How can a leader of a business unit identify the most inefficient processes and improve business operations?

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10 little known Office 365 hacks that will change your life.

We recently met with our partners at BrainStorm, Inc. BrainStorm has built a stellar platform that provides organizations with a vast library of video content that can be deployed to educate users and drive Office 365 adoption. The platform allows you to curate a customized training “playlist” by pulling content from the huge library of training videos. Brainstorm’s QuickHelp platform is the ideal training solution because the “bite-sized” video content is accessible, comprehensive and innovative.

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What does the future hold for SharePoint Architects?

SharePoint Architect Roles & Responsibilities in a Shifting Tide

For many IT professionals, building, supporting, and managing SharePoint infrastructure has become a full-time career, and as such, a dedicated role. However, if your SharePoint infrastructure is moving to a cloud-based solution, it may seem there is little room for growth in this niche, unless you plan on going to work for the cloud solution provider.

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Building an intranet that your users love to use.

An organization’s intranet has the potential to be a valued resource for employees. It also can become the most underappreciated and underutilized resource that the organization has invested in. If you want to build a great intranet, you have to connect users to relevant and up-to-date content – quickly. If you are unable to deliver the desired information quickly, users will lose confidence in the intranet. Once users stop using the intranet, they’ll resort to using e-mail to locate and share information. This method is not only slow, but it also doesn’t guarantee that users are working with the most current and up to date information.

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3 ways to get the most out of your investment in Office 365.

Our team has Kiefer a long history of helping clients solve business challenges. Over the last 28 years, we have helped numerous clients optimize inefficient processes and improve business workflows. We’ve designed some outstanding solutions that have helped facilitate an organization’s digital transformation.

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Governance can make your SharePoint migration magical.

Before you start moving all of your precious content from one system to another, be sure you have a Governance Plan in place. In a number of migration engagements, we have met clients that have successfully migrated content, however, their Governance Plan was as real as a unicorn.

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The beauties and beasts of business workflows.

Every organization has workflow. Some organizations have formalized and documented their processes so that every member of the organization understands how information should flow through the organization. These processes include business-critical processes like invoice processing, new-hire on boarding and I.T. provisioning. Documenting your process is an effective way of bringing consistency to how you do business, but it doesn’t necessarily ensure that your process is operating with efficiency. It’s important to understand what you can do to bring efficiency, consistency and automation to your business workflows.

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Cool new stuff in Office 365: The @ mention in Outlook 2016

Our Director of Operations, @Ben Cox, discovered this “easter egg” in Outlook 2016 and thought it was pretty cool. So, we thought we’d share! Have you ever sent an email or meeting invite to a group of people with specific instructions to one of the recipients in the body of the message or meeting invite? You think to yourself… “Will they see that they are mentioned in the message? Will they see there is something that pertains to them specifically?”

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Cool new stuff in Office 365: The Activity Button

Office 365 continues to be updated with new features! We wanted to start a blog series to share features that were either “new” or “newly discovered” by members of the Kiefer team. Hopefully, this blog is helpful in assisting you in gaining a better understanding of the capabilities of Office 365.

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