Articles by Ted Steinmann

• 🛠️ Build it, buy it, or wait? Where to invest your AI effort

  In a fast-moving AI landscape, the hard choice is whether to build, buy, or wait. A real example—using Gemini's Spreadsheet AI to summarize a Service Clubs financials—shows how leveraging existing tools can deliver better outcomes with less effort. The takeaway: use AI to shorten the path to value, and reserve custom building for true differentiation.

  Category: blog
  Tags: technology
  Published on November 22, 2025

• 🧰 Project Based Budgeting

  A simple, transparent budgeting and reporting system for service organizations

  Category: projects
  Tags: leadership, service
  Published on October 14, 2025

• 🚑 NASEMSO EMS Workforce Reports

  Standardized EMS workforce reporting aligned to NASEMSO’s Core Ten—designed and led at ImageTrend—to deliver comparable, actionable metrics across states. New datasets enable point-in-time and longitudinal analysis of supply, retention, and education outcomes, with solutions validated in collaboration with state EMS offices and NASEMSO.

  Category: projects
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  Published on July 08, 2025

• ⏳ Agile is just Budgeting on a Shorter Timeline

  How service club budgeting, government appropriations, and agile product management all follow the same governance loop.

  Category: blog
  Tags: product-management, leadership, service, systems
  Published on March 29, 2025

• 🎯 Optimizing effort for impact in product management

  Presentation to the Fargo Full Stack Development User Group

  Category: presentations
  Tags: product-management, leadership, technology
  Published on December 19, 2024

• ImageTrend LLC

  U.S. provider of public safety and healthcare data platforms—ePCR, fire and trauma registries, HIE, and licensing—that improve interoperability, compliance, and data-driven decisions for agencies and hospitals.

  Category: organization
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  Published on April 16, 2021

• 🌾 Addressing Variety and Veracity of data in Ag

  Presentation at FASTCON 2019 in Saint Paul on how Bushel tackles challenges of variety and veracity in agricultural data through partnerships and digital infrastructure modernization.

  Category: presentations
  Tags: data, integration, partnerships, systems
  Published on December 09, 2019

• 🏗️ Datalake technology as a platform for Research Driven Product Development

  Capstone presentation for the Master of Science in Management of Technology program at the University of Minnesota, exploring how data lakes can serve as a foundation for incremental innovation and research-aligned product development.

  Category: presentations
  Tags: data, platforms, technology
  Published on April 24, 2018

• 📊 Dashboards and Datalakes with Tableau

  Presentation at the University of Minnesota Tableau User Group (October 2017) on building a data lake and embedding dashboards in web applications.

  Category: presentations
  Tags: data, platforms, cloud
  Published on December 29, 2017

• 🛡️ Food Protection and Defense Institute project portfolio updates

  Updates from UMN’s Food Protection and Defense Institute (FPDI) supporting FoodSHIELD, a transitionable, research-funded software platform with custom apps and collaboration portals for food defense.

  Category: presentations
  Tags: data, partnerships, government
  Published on June 18, 2017