In just 3 days, the State of California will be closing the books on the 2021-2022 budget year. As a firm that works with state and local government entities, we saw a lot of investments in the last year that were made to modernize the workplace. With remote work and hybrid work becoming a more …
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Kiefer Consulting has spent over 30 years helping organizations in innovating, improving business processes, and deploying software to reduce costs and save time. We have a talented team of business analysts and developers that can collect requirements and build an application. Several years ago, Microsoft floated the idea of citizen development. Citizen developers are not …
I’ve been at Kiefer Consulting for 6 years. I often say that I am fortunate to work with some brilliant individuals that have a rare mix of technical skill and a strategic mindset. We have written a blog about what to expect when working with our team and the importance of team chemistry, but we …
For 34 years, Kiefer Consulting has proven that working with a quality team of consultants yields desirable results. Independence. It’s as American and baseball and apple pie. Independence is the driving force behind all the legendary stories of the nation’s birth and its westward expansion. The rugged individual going it alone looms large in the …
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Yesterday, Secretary of the California Government Operations Agency, Amy Tong, addressed members of the vendor community, public sector employees, and industry analysts at the California Public Sector CIO Academy. Her comments focused on the mission areas of GovOps. We appreciate Amy’s leadership and her ability to build a strong culture wherever she goes. At GovOps, there are …
As we look back on the immense changes that we’ve seen over the last 2 years, I find great interest in the speed in which organizations (and individuals) embraced new technology. There are many technologies that had been underutilized or undervalued until the pandemic. Here are a few technologies that we couldn’t live without during …
Kiefer Consulting built our reputation as a “SharePoint Shop”. We have encountered both SharePoint advocates and SharePoint “haters”. The wide range opinions about SharePoint are oftentimes influenced by implementation. Good implementations of SharePoint connect users to information in the flow of work. But, what we often encounter is poorly configured instances of SharePoint and untrained …
Typically, before starting a project, we recommend that we start with an assessment. In our experience, we’ve had clients push to move quickly from the Planning phase to the Execution phase of the project. This may be done for a variety of reasons. Some of the reasons we see clients interested in accelerating the Planning …
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A few of us from Kiefer Consulting attended the M365 Conference in Las Vegas (April 5-April 7). The conference featured an all-star lineup of speakers. Many of the speakers work for Microsoft and I’ve been fortunate to have heard them speak in the past at SharePoint Saturday events. It was great to see so many …
Well I’m not sure what to really call it, but let’s just call it what it is, a “low-code no-code revolution”. For years, business transformation was at the direction of IT and executive leadership. Now, with Microsoft’s Power Platform, users with low to moderate technical skills can create applications, automate processes, and explore data on …
