Kaizen Dynamics Partners Inc

Drive nonprofit effectiveness by building your own software Staff, volunteers, donors, and board members are always looking for better ways to work together and do more with their talent and expertise. If technology can’t match your momentum and fit how your nonprofit works, it can become an expensive distraction. Instead of evaluating, testing, deploying, and customizing software, it can be faster and easier to write your own applications. With Microsoft Power Apps and the other tools on the Power Platform, you can create software in hours. Using Power Apps doesn’t require coding or other advanced technical skills, so team members who best understand your organization’s requirements and desired results can be app creators. On the Power Platform, you can go from creating software apps for specific needs to developing a digital culture where you can re-create roles and workflows to accelerate mission success. Read the Microsoft Creator’s Manual for practica...

Ready your nonprofit for fast action to address emergencies As your organization strives to deliver services, unexpected needs and crises can challenge you to muster your expertise and resources right away. You might also encounter opportunities to help communities and advance your goals by acting quickly. Such unexpected situations may strain your systems, requiring new and more powerful tools. Instead of taking time out to research, evaluate, and deploy off-the-shelf software, use Microsoft Power Apps to create the functionality you need—without coding or advanced technical skills. Those who best understand the issues can easily work with Power Apps to close functionality gaps. The Microsoft e-book “3 Ways Low-Code App Development Can Help with Immediate Response” describes how you can build apps in hours, not months. Promptly address emerging needs or make current operations and decision-making more mission-focused and productive. For example, as mentioned in ...

An easy way to build software apps to power your nonprofit’s mission Sometimes, creating a software tool to suit your nonprofit’s unique requirements can be the best way to close a functionality gap and take advantage of an opportunity to work more efficiently toward realizing your mission. Conveniently available within Microsoft Teams is Microsoft Power Apps, a tool with flexible, well-designed templates to streamline your effort so you can quickly create your own apps without coding. Once created, you can make them available in the Teams environment to help staff work from anywhere and collaborate productively. They can access the new apps without switching among screens and losing their flow. Take a look at the infographic “5 Templates to Improve Productivity with Microsoft Power Apps and Microsoft Teams” to see how you can simply create apps for your organization. Use the links to access the templates and build apps that help you: Capture member or...