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Practice Makes Perfect: Kiefer’s Consulting Practice Areas

Kiefer’s expertise in our practice areas makes our team a perfect fit for your team.

These are difficult and challenging times. It seems the moment we start to get our arms around one issue, another pops up. We’re all being pulled in numerous directions, asked to function in ways we’re not comfortable with and to do things we’re not sure we’re capable of. It’s taxing trying to manage the present. Looking ahead and contemplating upcoming needs probably seems exhausting. But you know you have to do it, so let us help you.

Introducing Microsoft Lists: Track Information and Manage Processes

SharePoint-powered Lists help track information and manage processes.

As a Microsoft Gold Partner and a firm that has built our reputation on being SharePoint experts, there is nothing more satisfying than seeing Microsoft’s investment in making SharePoint even more useful to users in the Modern Workplace.

Business as Unusual: What Reopening Might Look Like for IT

We’re collectively navigating uncharted waters. How do we prepare for the unknown?

On Tuesday, May 12 Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey sent an email to his company’s employees letting them know that if they so choose, they can work from home permanently. Work from home…forever. To some it might sound heavenly and to others, hellish. But Dorsey’s decree shines a very public spotlight on a very nebulous issue, namely, what does technology work look like after all…this?

Tips for Successfully Working from Home

New to remote work? Here’s some advice to make remote work…work

If you’re among the millions who have rather suddenly found themselves working from home, you may also be among the millions for whom remote work is a new experience. Working from home – and let’s focus on that for now, since no one is doing the working at Starbucks or the local pub thing (for now, at least) – can be a jarring transition.

7 Apps to Try in Microsoft Teams

New Teams apps are being created all the time – here’s a handful that you may find useful

As Microsoft Teams usage skyrockets, it should come as no surprise Microsoft itself, as well as third-party companies, are rapidly churning out new apps. Actually, let’s back up a bit. Did you know there were apps for Teams? With Teams open, look at the left navigation column. You’ll see three dots at the bottom. Click the dots to pull up a window pre-populated with some apps. At the bottom right is an option to view more apps. Click that and behold! A wide world of Teams apps appears.

Making the Case: Why 2020 is the Year to Migrate to SharePoint Online

SharePoint Online can help your team confront an uncertain future.

2020 will be remembered for many reasons. Certainly, it has already been a year indelibly marked by the impacts of pandemic. But 2020 will also be remembered as a year of ingenuity, resilience and courage. Above all, we will look back at 2020 as the year things changed. How we work, travel, shop, interact, entertain – everything we think, say and do will have changed in some capacity. Some changes will be significant while others will be subtle.

What to do before you deploy Microsoft Teams

We are seeing huge growth in the adoption of Microsoft Teams. Unfortunately, many organizations have had to accelerate their deployment of Microsoft Teams in order to support teleworkers without the luxury of planning and strategizing on how to best roll it out.

5 Great Apps You May Not Know You Have

Office 365 comes loaded with useful apps – here are five you may be overlooking.

For many users of Office 365, familiar applications like Outlook, Office and Excel are the extent to which the powerful suite of tools is leveraged. Sharp-eyed users may have spotted other applications with names like Yammer, WhiteBoard and Visio. It turns out that, depending on your Office 365 subscription, you may have access to a host of wildly useful apps that you may have never even opened.

The Modern Workplace: No Longer Aspirational, Now a Necessity

As our workplace is forcibly altered, here’s what you can expect once we come through this crisis

At Kiefer Consulting, one of our primary practice areas is helping people shepherd their organizations toward adopting a modern workplace. Our modern workplace consulting practice develops and deploys innovative solutions that improve how your organization communicates and shares information both internally and externally.

Kiefer Consulting’s Approach to Working at Home

While many of you have looked to our blog for tips, expert perspectives and best practices, this blog will focus more on Kiefer’s second full week of remote work. Before COVID-19, studies indicated that remote work was on the rise in the US. According to the Federal Reserve, the share of the labor force that works from home tripled in the past 15 years. But, it’s very clear that we would have never expected to be thrust into working from home, exclusively, with so little warning.

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