Education is the primary practical step to keep the network secure and business data safe. Employees need to understand that if an unauthorized individual has successfully infiltrated a computer, he or she can cause immense and often irreparable damage to the employee, as well as to the company.

In the rush to the Web over the last dozen years, much attention has been given to the website "user experience". To a certain degree, this extensive dialogue has been reapplied to print marketing pieces as graphic designers strive to combine traditional print design with visual elements familiar to web users.

The John C. Grimberg Company, Inc., an award-winning general and mechanical contractor that has served the Washington DC metropolitan area for over 55 years, has commended Trinity for its range of creative and technical services.

Are the skills necessary for a good marital relationship similar to that of a good relationship with your customer? Trinity CEO Peter Mirus explores the similarities between the two.

Below are 3 additional sets of preliminary designs created for CONFLUENCE Watersports. These trade show and retail displays explore optional approaches that allow the client to showcase their branded kayaks and kayak accessories.

One of the features of Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) is built-in Developer Tools, and one of those tools is the ability to emulate Internet Explorer 7 (IE7). This would ostensibly make life easier for the developer. In fact, in development experience at Trinity such has not proven to be the case.

The Building Society Through Business™ brand was developed by Trinity to emphasize its commitment to build society through business action.

Trinity provides consulting services that strengthen society by promoting ethical, profitable business strategies and by encouraging effective, respectful communication.  We hire and train men and women who are “true consultants” that act in the best interests of the client with intelligence, skill, sound judgment, character and determination.

Moreover, Trinity takes an interest in charitable enterprise and contributes both time and money to worthy causes that seek to build society. We support both national and local organizations that focus on strengthening the underpinnings of our society: God, family, and work.

The Building Society Through Business™ (BSTB) brand depicts a flowchart as the root system of a fruit tree. The brand illustrates that well-performed business organically both produces corporate growth and also bears fruit for the good of all members of society.

Trinity Consulting, Inc. (Trinity) released the Building Society Through Business™ brand last Friday. The purpose of the brand is to provide a clear visual representation of Trinity’s commitment to build society through business action.

Three years ago, Trinity collected research from diverse sources about increasing business efficiency through Information Technology. Specifically, we were looking for low-cost solutions that did not require implementation of sophisticated process automation.

Trinity Consulting, Inc. is pleased to announce that it has formed an agreement with Christopher Pelicano (A.R.T. Services) to act as Art Director for our growing consulting firm.

Once you have your http proxy in place, another layer of protection is to enable content filtering. Most companies fail to do this because they are afraid their employees will revolt, but content filtering can be used effectively to prevent malicious sites and programs from infecting your network.

Internet Explorer 8 can be customized in many ways, but some changes made directly to the browser--not a plug-in/add-in--will benefit power users the most. Here are two.

Trinity's graphic design process focuses intently on the client's need to communicate its message, mission, and unique benefits to its target audience.

The poor economy has prompted many companies to reevaluate their customer focus. In some cases, companies have had to reassess what customer service means to both themselves and to their customers.

During 2010 the greatest potential threat to business network (i.e., computer) infrastructure is a "bot", a type of malware that allows an unauthorized individual to gain complete control over a particular computer or network of systems.

Reviewing Trinity’s proposal best practices, I was recently reminded of the importance of “hot buttons”—an element of customer focus and a best practice that Trinity works to implement on every proposal.

Large general contractors require an IT solution to handle the creation, access, and storage to what I call “jobsite documents”. Jobsite documents are those created by field users, such as daily reports, RFI, drawings, etc. Many companies develop the bad habit of storing these documents on jobsite computers and/or in the Project Manager’s email software data file.

Trinity's Art Director discusses part of the design process in the creation of the Supplier Management Council logo for the Aerospace Industries Association.

Understanding how the government solicits business and evaluates proposals is critical for those who want to win contracts. This was discussed in Trinity's recent Proposals Done Right workshop.

Coordinating partner work within the proposal development process is of vital importance to crafting a compliant and effective response. Key subcontractors and vendors make up part of your team—from whom you must obtain timely and effective information for integration into your proposal.

Trinity enjoys working with qualified partners to increase customer value, and is interested in partnering with other firms of professional quality to pursue opportunities of mutual benefit.

Trinity prides itself in using good communication, structured processes, and smart technology to create cleanly structured engagements. Our executives are accessible, and our project managers are used to coordinating partnering efforts.

Trinity has performed projects in cooperation with designers, web developers, application developers, IT specialists, marketing consultants/business developers, attorneys, and various other experts and vendors.

Contact us to explore a partnership with Trinity.

To communicate proposal compliance to the buyer’s evaluator, most proposals should include a compliance matrix at the beginning of the submission. This matrix clearly identifies each major RFP requirement, states where in the RFP the buyer requests the information, and lists the proposal location where the requirement is addressed. This layout provides a concise reference for the evaluator to connect each RFP requirement with the associated response.

An important part of proposal development is ensuring that the submission complies with all RFP requirements. One tool that helps ensure compliance is the overview.

In previous posts, I described two tools for ensuring proposal compliance: the overview and the proposal shell. A third tool is the compliance review.

In a previous article, I discussed using the proposal overview to ensure compliance. This article discusses a second compliance tool: shell documents, or the “proposal shell.”

Trinity’s primary role as a consulting firm is to help our clients build context for business decisions. Regardless of the applied Solution Area, Trinity solicits information from the client and then adds its own expertise and insight to create the context in which good business decisions can be made.

In today's crazy changing web world, a developer has to stay sharp, focused and knowledgeable to consistently deliver a great product. But this doesn't mean spending big bucks and precious sleep time in night class. Here are a few ways Trinity's web development team keeps up to date on the latest and greatest.

From the article “See, Transform, Act”: Trinity’s model of business development derives its uniqueness from the way that Trinity expresses and applies the model’s principles. Trinity’s unique expression and application of SEE, TRANSFORM, ACT comes from deeply seated personal and corporate beliefs about humility, communication and business ethics.

The basis of Trinity's marketing theory is knowledge gained through self-discovery. The path of vision to self-discovery is directly through the eyes of your market.

The goal of my recent Strategic and Business Planning workshop was to draw out the difference in roles between strategic and business plans. A good deal of interest is always placed on the difference in mindset in the two processes.

Within your company, some internal business communication is very important—so important that it is documented to create a permanent record, define positions, build consensus, and bolster support.

In business as in life, the space between the current situation and an improved situation can seem very far. I think it is important for business development consultants and their clients to keep this in mind: not everything needs to happen at once.

The Wall Street Journal's Small Businesses Chase Big Stimulus Money sheds some light on the business effects of this year's stimulus bill. Most of us have anticipated increased competition through opportunistic bidding from the start, but none of us has been fully able to predict the impact on small businesses in pursuit of the dollars.

A reader requested that I provide some thoughts directed at sole proprietors who are just getting started in business. This got me wondering: what sort of advice would I give to someone who was in the process of setting up their first business? Here are some tips.

Wherever I go, I run across consulting/service firms that guarantee they can get your company’s website on the first page of Google’s search results. Usually this claim is to be accomplished by using something called “SEO”. Let’s take a minute to understand the term “SEO” and evaluate claims made by SEO firms.

The SEE part of “See, Transform, Act” presents a roadmap for growing business through an effective market approach. In the TRANSFORM part of the model, the company readies itself for this approach by applying necessary internal change.

Trinity Chief Marketing Officer (CMO), Pablo Gomez, led a roundtable discussion titled "Doing business with the Federal Government". This first in a two-part series focused specifically on best practices in Business Development and Capture Management.

Trinity Proposal Director Ryan Callaghan led a roundtable discussion titled "Doing business with the Federal Government, Part II". This second part of the presentation series begun in December 2008, focused specifically on proposal development and management best practices.

Trinity recently received an outstanding review from NovusCG, a leading provider of enterprise storage solutions. In particular, the commendation highlighted Trinity’s unique ability to identify and understand client needs, before developing and executing winning strategic marketing solutions.

In less than one year, Trinity has more than doubled its customer base across multiple lines of business including proposal development, web development, and marketing strategy consulting.

Trinity Consulting, Inc. (Trinity) became an Adobe Solution Partner in March 2010 by demonstrating a commitment to developing and integrating client solutions using Adobe technologies.

Trinity Consulting, Inc. (Trinity),  announces that it has moved its headquarters location to 9200 Church Street in historic Old Town Manassas, VA.  The new location provides Trinity with increased office space and a central location from which to serve its growing client base.

In recent weeks, Trinity has been working on a valuable application for a leading construction contractor ("the contractor") whose primary work comes through federal contracts.

From Part 1: Trinity will be integrating three tools from the suite's toolset to improve the bid solicitation process: the Communications System, the Bidders List, and the Project File Management/Download System.

Trinity Consulting, Inc. (Trinity) extended its commitment to education in the Manassas, Virginia area by participating as one of two Gold Sponsors (along with GlassHouse Technologies) for the annual Renaissance Montessori School (RMS) fundraising event in February 20, 2010.

Potomac Economics, a leading provider of independent market monitoring, expert analysis and advice, and litigation support services to the electricity and natural gas industries, has praised Trinity for its web design and development work.

A Mid-Atlantic complete communications solutions provider has engaged Trinity’s strategic and proposal development services to provide support in the acquisition of key contracts in the area of integrated GPS tracking and diagnostic monitoring for superior fleet cost/productivity management. The client will be pursuing contracts nationwide.

In this workshop we focused on presenting some of the online applications/tools that Trinity has used to improve its own business operations, and how they may do the same for our clients.

The proverbially tough proposal writer should keep these observations in mind when going through intense periods of challenge in the proposal season.

WSS (Windows SharePoint Services) is a tool that most small businesses don’t realize is out there.