How Kiefer can help your organization “do better”.
How does a 32-year old company like Kiefer stay relevant? How does Kiefer shed “old ways” in favor of a “better way”? These are great questions.
Process Improvement
A better way to route, review, and approve: The Kiefer Review and Approve Solution
Updated: July 22,2020: Many agencies have processes that are highly manual in nature. These processes are typically dependent upon the serial review and approval of critical documents. We have often encountered processes that require multiple staff members to review, approve, and route documents to numerous stakeholders across an organization.
Power Automate Best Practices
Perhaps you read our previous blog that outlined some tips on how to build your first “flow” using Microsoft Power Automate. Or, maybe you read the blog we posted earlier in the week that talked about converting your SharePoint 2010 workflows to flows in Power Automate. The interest in Power Automate is increasing as organizations …
Planner Momentum – Best Practices for Leveraging Microsoft Planner
If you’re reading this there is a high likelihood that you’re doing so in an unfamiliar environment. Our comfortable workplaces have been upended by global events and your organization may be experiencing chaos, uncertainty and disconnectedness. While Office 365 offers an array of apps to help us bridge some of the gaps we’re now confronted …
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What is Microsoft Power Automate?
Over the past year, we’ve seen increased interest from customers to optimize processes. Organizations in both the public-sector and private sector are in search of ways to eliminate redundant tasks and time-consuming data entry to deliver faster and higher-value results with little to no added cost.
Microsoft Flow and PowerApps are in the Government Community Cloud (GCC)
If you follow Kiefer Consulting and read our blogs on a regular basis, it’s pretty obvious that we are very excited about Microsoft Flow and Microsoft PowerApps being added to the Government Community Cloud (GCC).
Vision 2020 and the focus on the future: Our thoughts on CDT’s strategic plan.
Next year, Kiefer Consulting will be celebrating 30 years of successful project delivery. Over the last 29 years, we have had to stop from time to time and think about the company’s direction and strategy. 2017 was one of those years. We took inventory of our portfolio and our partnerships, and we identified the “in-demand” …
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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 …
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.
How the cloud can help your team collaborate.
Being able to collaborate is critical in today’s business environment. High performing teams need to be able to quickly share information and conveniently review documents.