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DIGITAL, BUSINESS AND TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS You deserve an unmatched consulting experience. We believe consulting is a team sport, which is why we don’t just work for you – we work with you. We work with you to uncover new ideas and unique perspectives that optimize your processes, elevate your technology, and help you compete in a digital world. Learn How we work. TEAM BIOS - CENTRIC CONSULTING Join 20,000 other people and get the latest updates on business, technology and digital to help improve your business. SHAREPOINT ONLINE: HOW TO CREATE A SITE MAP USINGSEE MORE ON CENTRICCONSULTING.COM GOING HYBRID ISN’T SIMPLE, BUT IT IS NECESSARY: HERE’S HOW Clarity of vision is the first step in going hybrid by design. An organization needs to define what needs to change and why, what are the top challenges and what is the reimagined vision for the hybrid workforce. This vision will align leadership and teams to a common way of operating and provide the starting point of a detailed roadmap

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BETTER TOGETHER: COMBINING PERSPECTIVES FOR A STRONGER About the Authors. Joel Longanecker is a Senior Operational Excellence Consultant for St. Louis with expertise in process improvement, business strategy, and has a Lean/Six Sigma Black Belt. He managed teams in the restaurant and healthcare industries for seven years before moving to business consulting.He enjoys hiking with his wife and three dogs or playing basketball and soccer with friends JOIN OUR TEAM: WE'RE HIRING A HYBRID WORKPLACE NATIONAL Here are this week's featured positions; we're hiring a remote Hybrid Workplace National OD Consultant for our People and Change team. GET TO KNOW MICROSOFT SYNAPSE: THREE BENEFITS OF USING THE A recent project had me working with Microsoft Synapse, and I must say, I am impressed. I have heard more than once that Synapse is only a re-branding exercise of existing Microsoft services. The marketing team at Microsoft hasn’t helped the situation by describing Synapse as “Azure SQL Data Warehouse evolved.” DIGITAL, BUSINESS AND TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS You deserve an unmatched consulting experience. We believe consulting is a team sport, which is why we don’t just work for you – we work with you. We work with you to uncover new ideas and unique perspectives that optimize your processes, elevate your technology, and help you compete in a digital world. Learn How we work. TEAM BIOS - CENTRIC CONSULTING Join 20,000 other people and get the latest updates on business, technology and digital to help improve your business. SHAREPOINT ONLINE: HOW TO CREATE A SITE MAP USINGSEE MORE ON CENTRICCONSULTING.COM GOING HYBRID ISN’T SIMPLE, BUT IT IS NECESSARY: HERE’S HOW Clarity of vision is the first step in going hybrid by design. An organization needs to define what needs to change and why, what are the top challenges and what is the reimagined vision for the hybrid workforce. This vision will align leadership and teams to a common way of operating and provide the starting point of a detailed roadmap

forward.

A SIX SIGMA AND AGILE APPROACH TO WEIGHT LOSS Epic 1: In 60 days, reduce the food gap by 10%. Story 1: Document current intake. Story 2: Meet with nutritionist to identify immediate adjustments. Story 3: Reward yourself each week you stay on target. Sub-initiative 2: Develop a healthy lifestyle. Epic 1: In 60 days, reduce the exercise gap by 10%. THREE SIMPLE WAYS A BUSINESS ANALYST CAN IMPROVE YOUR PROJECTSEE MORE ON CENTRICCONSULTING.COM GUIDELINES FOR A ROBOTIC PROCESS AUTOMATION CENTER OF As part of the initiative though, we highly recommend that you establish an RPA Center of Excellence (CoE) as part of your long-term plans. Below are guidelines to help you on the path to establishing an RPA CoE that will be sustainable, maintainable, and continually bring process and technology improvements to your automation initiatives. 1. DISRUPTIVE TECHNOLOGY: THE DIGITAL DISRUPTION THAT IS MORE Disruptive technology is not new by any stretch of the imagination – human history fairly overflows with disruption whether in government, warfare, business or society. But the pace of disruption is increasing, particularly as developing technologies become more and more practically applicable. The stories of disruptors such as Airbnb,

Uber

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A SIX SIGMA AND AGILE APPROACH TO WEIGHT LOSS Epic 1: In 60 days, reduce the food gap by 10%. Story 1: Document current intake. Story 2: Meet with nutritionist to identify immediate adjustments. Story 3: Reward yourself each week you stay on target. Sub-initiative 2: Develop a healthy lifestyle. Epic 1: In 60 days, reduce the exercise gap by 10%. THREE SIMPLE WAYS A BUSINESS ANALYST CAN IMPROVE YOUR PROJECTSEE MORE ON CENTRICCONSULTING.COM GUIDELINES FOR A ROBOTIC PROCESS AUTOMATION CENTER OF As part of the initiative though, we highly recommend that you establish an RPA Center of Excellence (CoE) as part of your long-term plans. Below are guidelines to help you on the path to establishing an RPA CoE that will be sustainable, maintainable, and continually bring process and technology improvements to your automation initiatives. 1. DISRUPTIVE TECHNOLOGY: THE DIGITAL DISRUPTION THAT IS MORE Disruptive technology is not new by any stretch of the imagination – human history fairly overflows with disruption whether in government, warfare, business or society. But the pace of disruption is increasing, particularly as developing technologies become more and more practically applicable. The stories of disruptors such as Airbnb,

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A SIX SIGMA AND AGILE APPROACH TO WEIGHT LOSS Epic 1: In 60 days, reduce the food gap by 10%. Story 1: Document current intake. Story 2: Meet with nutritionist to identify immediate adjustments. Story 3: Reward yourself each week you stay on target. Sub-initiative 2: Develop a healthy lifestyle. Epic 1: In 60 days, reduce the exercise gap by 10%. THREE SIMPLE WAYS A BUSINESS ANALYST CAN IMPROVE YOUR PROJECTSEE MORE ON CENTRICCONSULTING.COM GUIDELINES FOR A ROBOTIC PROCESS AUTOMATION CENTER OF As part of the initiative though, we highly recommend that you establish an RPA Center of Excellence (CoE) as part of your long-term plans. Below are guidelines to help you on the path to establishing an RPA CoE that will be sustainable, maintainable, and continually bring process and technology improvements to your automation initiatives. 1. DISRUPTIVE TECHNOLOGY: THE DIGITAL DISRUPTION THAT IS MORE Disruptive technology is not new by any stretch of the imagination – human history fairly overflows with disruption whether in government, warfare, business or society. But the pace of disruption is increasing, particularly as developing technologies become more and more practically applicable. The stories of disruptors such as Airbnb,

Uber

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A SIX SIGMA AND AGILE APPROACH TO WEIGHT LOSS Epic 1: In 60 days, reduce the food gap by 10%. Story 1: Document current intake. Story 2: Meet with nutritionist to identify immediate adjustments. Story 3: Reward yourself each week you stay on target. Sub-initiative 2: Develop a healthy lifestyle. Epic 1: In 60 days, reduce the exercise gap by 10%. THREE SIMPLE WAYS A BUSINESS ANALYST CAN IMPROVE YOUR PROJECTSEE MORE ON CENTRICCONSULTING.COM GUIDELINES FOR A ROBOTIC PROCESS AUTOMATION CENTER OF As part of the initiative though, we highly recommend that you establish an RPA Center of Excellence (CoE) as part of your long-term plans. Below are guidelines to help you on the path to establishing an RPA CoE that will be sustainable, maintainable, and continually bring process and technology improvements to your automation initiatives. 1. DISRUPTIVE TECHNOLOGY: THE DIGITAL DISRUPTION THAT IS MORE Disruptive technology is not new by any stretch of the imagination – human history fairly overflows with disruption whether in government, warfare, business or society. But the pace of disruption is increasing, particularly as developing technologies become more and more practically applicable. The stories of disruptors such as Airbnb,

Uber

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OUR ON-DEMAND WEBINAR PROVIDES TIPS FOR IMPLEMENTING A The pandemic made one thing very clear: Modern businesses need a work model that combines virtual and in-person work. But, creating a strong hybrid and virtual workplace solution requires an intentional approach.. Research shows that most employees desire a hybrid workplace, and 9 out of 10 companies are considering a hybrid work model – yet few organizations have communicated a INCREASE YOUR VPN SPEED AND IMPROVE REMOTE WORKER PRODUCTIVITY Many companies leverage Microsoft Office 365, a cloud-based suite of collaboration tools. If you want to increase remote worker VPN speed, consider implementing split-tunneling. Split-tunneling reduces VPN load by permitting natively encrypted traffic (such as O365) to bypass your VPN. There are pros and cons to this approach, so we recommend GUIDELINES FOR A ROBOTIC PROCESS AUTOMATION CENTER OF As part of the initiative though, we highly recommend that you establish an RPA Center of Excellence (CoE) as part of your long-term plans. Below are guidelines to help you on the path to establishing an RPA CoE that will be sustainable, maintainable, and continually bring process and technology improvements to your automation initiatives. 1. GOVERNANCE MODELS FOR THE POWER PLATFORM Microsoft has touted Power Platform as a way for business users to create low-code solutions for their immediate needs, but this marketing pitch shouldn’t be the first consideration you have before deploying it. Instead, you need to determine how your organization will manage it. You should think through potential issues stemming from governance and support before pushing Power Platform HOW TO USE POWERAPPS TO VIEW PDFS How to Use PowerApps to View PDFs – Step 1. Follow our step-by-step approach on how to use PowerApps to make it easy to view PDFs. Here’s step one of a custom solution we created. I had a client approach me with a need to organize and present some PDF training materials to their employees in a format that is easily viewed from a

tablet or

BETTER TOGETHER: COMBINING PERSPECTIVES FOR A STRONGER About the Authors. Joel Longanecker is a Senior Operational Excellence Consultant for St. Louis with expertise in process improvement, business strategy, and has a Lean/Six Sigma Black Belt. He managed teams in the restaurant and healthcare industries for seven years before moving to business consulting.He enjoys hiking with his wife and three dogs or playing basketball and soccer with friends JOIN OUR TEAM: WE'RE HIRING A HYBRID WORKPLACE NATIONAL Here are this week's featured positions; we're hiring a remote Hybrid Workplace National OD Consultant for our People and Change team. GET TO KNOW MICROSOFT SYNAPSE: THREE BENEFITS OF USING THE A recent project had me working with Microsoft Synapse, and I must say, I am impressed. I have heard more than once that Synapse is only a re-branding exercise of existing Microsoft services. The marketing team at Microsoft hasn’t helped the situation by describing Synapse as “Azure SQL Data Warehouse evolved.” DIGITAL, BUSINESS AND TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS You deserve an unmatched consulting experience. We believe consulting is a team sport, which is why we don’t just work for you – we work with you. We work with you to uncover new ideas and unique perspectives that optimize your processes, elevate your technology, and help you compete in a digital world. Learn How we work. ABOUT US - BUSINESS AND TECHNOLOGY CONSULTING COMPANY Whatever you need, wherever you need it. Centric Consulting has 14 locations across the U.S. and India to provide consultants local to your community. That, combined with expertise in many industries and specific areas of need, allows us to offer a global perspective right TEAM BIOS - CENTRIC CONSULTING Join 20,000 other people and get the latest updates on business, technology and digital to help improve your business. SHAREPOINT ONLINE: HOW TO CREATE A SITE MAP USINGSEE MORE ON CENTRICCONSULTING.COM

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tablet or

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in a

POWERAPPS TIP: HOW TO GET PAST THE 500 ITEMS LIMIT Another Powerapps tip for you: You may need to query a data source that has more than 500 rows. We know how. Part four of a series. A minor annoying thing with PowerApps right now is the inability to query past the first 500 records of a data source. DIGITAL, BUSINESS AND TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS You deserve an unmatched consulting experience. We believe consulting is a team sport, which is why we don’t just work for you – we work with you. We work with you to uncover new ideas and unique perspectives that optimize your processes, elevate your technology, and help you compete in a digital world. Learn How we work. ABOUT US - BUSINESS AND TECHNOLOGY CONSULTING COMPANY Whatever you need, wherever you need it. Centric Consulting has 14 locations across the U.S. and India to provide consultants local to your community. That, combined with expertise in many industries and specific areas of need, allows us to offer a global perspective right TEAM BIOS - CENTRIC CONSULTING Join 20,000 other people and get the latest updates on business, technology and digital to help improve your business. SHAREPOINT ONLINE: HOW TO CREATE A SITE MAP USINGSEE MORE ON CENTRICCONSULTING.COM

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Preference cookies enable a website to remember information that changes the way the website behaves or looks, like your preferred language or the region that you are in.

NAME

PROVIDER

PURPOSE

EXPIRY

TYPE

lang

Remembers the user's selected language version of a website

Session

HTTP

jwplayer.volume

Amazon

This cookie is used in conjunction with the video player. The cookie remembers if the user has muted the volume and keeps this setting on other video content watched by the visitor.

Persistent

HTML

jwplayerLocalId

Amazon

Used to determine the optimal video quality based on the visitor's device and network settings.

Persistent

HTML

Statistic cookies help website owners to understand how visitors interact with websites by collecting and reporting information

anonymously.

NAME

PROVIDER

PURPOSE

EXPIRY

TYPE

_at.hist.#

centricconsulting.com Used by the social sharing platform AddThis to store the user's usage history of the AddThis sharing widget

Persistent

HTML

_ga

centricconsulting.com

Amazon

Oracle

Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website.

2 years

HTTP

_gat

centricconsulting.com

Amazon

Oracle

Used by Google Analytics to throttle request rate

1 day

HTTP

_gid

centricconsulting.com

Amazon

Oracle

Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website.

1 day

HTTP

__utm.gif

Google

Google Analytics Tracking Code that logs details about the visitor's browser and computer.

Session

Pixel

collect

Google

Used to send data to Google Analytics about the visitor's device and behaviour. Tracks the visitor across devices and marketing channels.

Session

Pixel

loglevel

Vidyard

Collects data on visitor interaction with the website's video-content - This data is used to make the website's video-content more relevant towards the visitor.

Persistent

HTML

visitorId

Vidyard

Registers statistical data on visitors' behaviour on the website. Used for internal analytics by the website operator.

Persistent

HTML

__utma

Collects data on the number of times a user has visited the website as well as dates for the first and most recent visit. Used by Google

Analytics.

2 years

HTTP

__utmb

Registers a timestamp with the exact time of when the user accessed the website. Used by Google Analytics to calculate the duration of a

website visit.

1 day

HTTP

__utmc

Registers a timestamp with the exact time of when the user leaves the website. Used by Google Analytics to calculate the duration of a

website visit.

Session

HTTP

__utmt

Used to throttle the speed of requests to the server.

1 day

HTTP

__utmz

Collects data on where the user came from, what search engine was used, what link was clicked and what search term was used. Used by

Google Analytics.

6 months

HTTP

_uv_id

Collects data on the user's visits to the website, such as which pages have been read.

2 years

HTTP

slideshare.experiments

Used by SlideShare to determine if the visitor is participating in a

design experiment.

Persistent

HTML

sc_anonymous_id

Soundcloud

This cookie allows users to embed files or other content onto the website, this function can be limited to specific visitors.

10 years

HTTP

vuid

Vimeo

Collects data on the user's visits to the website, such as which pages have been read.

2 years

HTTP

Marketing cookies are used to track visitors across websites. The intention is to display ads that are relevant and engaging for the individual user and thereby more valuable for publishers and third

party advertisers.

NAME

PROVIDER

PURPOSE

EXPIRY

TYPE

loc

Oracle

Geolocation, which is used to help providers determine how users who share information with each other are geographically located (state

level).

1 year

HTTP

uvc

Oracle

Detects how often the social sharing service, AddThis, encounters

the same user.

1 year

HTTP

xtc

Oracle

Registers the user's sharing of content via social media.

1 year

HTTP

__atuvc

Oracle

Updates the counter of a website's social sharing features.

1 year

HTTP

__atuvs

Oracle

Ensures that the updated counter is displayed to the user if a page is shared with the social sharing service, AddThis.

1 day

HTTP

_at.cww

centricconsulting.com Used by the social sharing platform AddThis

Persistent

HTML

_gcl_au

centricconsulting.com Used by Google AdSense for experimenting with advertisement efficiency across websites using their services.

3 months

HTTP

_mkto_trk

centricconsulting.com Contains data on visitor behaviour and website interaction. This is used in context with the email marketing service Marketo.com, which allows the website to target visitors via email.

2 years

HTTP

at-lojson-cache-#

centricconsulting.com Used by the social sharing platform AddThis

Persistent

HTML

at-rand

centricconsulting.com Used by the social sharing platform AddThis

Persistent

HTML

IDE

Google

Used by Google DoubleClick to register and report the website user's actions after viewing or clicking one of the advertiser's ads with the purpose of measuring the efficacy of an ad and to present targeted ads

to the user.

1 year

HTTP

test_cookie

Google

Used to check if the user's browser supports cookies.

1 day

HTTP

ads/ga-audiences

Google

Used by Google AdWords to re-engage visitors that are likely to convert to customers based on the visitor's online behaviour across

websites.

Session

Pixel

NID

Google

Registers a unique ID that identifies a returning user's device. The ID is used for targeted ads.

6 months

HTTP

bscookie

Used by the social networking service, LinkedIn, for tracking the use of embedded services.

2 years

HTTP

lidc

Used by the social networking service, LinkedIn, for tracking the use of embedded services.

1 day

HTTP

lissc

Used by the social networking service, LinkedIn, for tracking the use of embedded services.

1 year

HTTP

UserMatchHistory

Used to track visitors on multiple websites, in order to present relevant advertisement based on the visitor's preferences.

29 days

HTTP

images/1x1.gif

Used by the social networking service, LinkedIn, for tracking the use of embedded services.

Session

Pixel

UID

Scorecardresearch

Collects information of the user and his/her movement, such as timestamp for visits, most recently loaded pages and IP address. The data is used by the marketing research network, Scorecard Research, to analyse traffic patterns and carry out surveys to help their clients better understand the customer's preferences.

2 years

HTTP

UIDR

Scorecardresearch

2 years

HTTP

WIDGET::local::assignments

Soundcloud

Used by audio-platform SoundCloud to implement, measure and improve their embedded content/service on the website - The collection of data also includes visitors’ interaction with embedded content/service. This can be used for statistics or marketing purposes.

Persistent

HTML

GPS

YouTube

Registers a unique ID on mobile devices to enable tracking based on geographical GPS location.

1 day

HTTP

VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE

YouTube

Tries to estimate the users' bandwidth on pages with integrated

YouTube videos.

179 days

HTTP

YSC

YouTube

Registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from YouTube

the user has seen.