Art of Procurement

JANUARY 12, 2023

In this week’s episode of the Art of Procurement podcast, Philip Ideson welcomed the first guest of 2023: Stephane Morel, The post Applying Category Management to the Challenges of a New Age appeared first on Art of Procurement.

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FedTech Magazine

JANUARY 13, 2023

IT solutions are always evolving, and an agency’s ideal infrastructure in a given year might look different the next. What we are seeing now among agencies is the adoption of hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI). Over the past few years, federal agencies in particular have shifted from the cloud back to HCI. Faced with cloud computing’s challenges (costs, limitations, lack of control of the IT environment), the scalability and control of HCI is more suitable for their needs.

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ivalua

JANUARY 13, 2023

Public Procurement: Building Business Cases and Driving Momentum. For the Government, supplier diversity programs are something procurement professionals in the United States (US) have accepted as a key element to their procurement success. Since their inception more than 50 years ago, supplier diversity programs have spread beyond public procurements.

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GovLoop

JANUARY 13, 2023

By Greg Godbout, Chief Growth Officer, Fearless and Adam Furtado, former Platform Chief, Kessel Run, Air Force. Digital services are everywhere. They improve experiences for customers in every facet of industry. Put simply, digital services are services in the digital era. Users expect their services to be modern, digital, instant and customized. Unfortunately, government services too often fall short of these modern expectations.

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Speaker: Jeff Dickinson - President and CEO of Railgistixs Transport, Supply Chain and Logistics Thought Leader

Despite the ongoing transformation of the supply chain and logistics landscape, the steadfast importance of carrier safety remains a core principle. From prioritizing preventative maintenance to optimizing fleet utilization, the fundamentals persist. If you’re overlooking and neglecting essential safety precautions today, this could result in expensive repairs and potential safety hazards in the future. 🚧 Join Jeff Dickinson for a conversation on how to mitigate risk, enforce compliance,

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Art of Procurement

JANUARY 10, 2023

The user experience associated with procurement technology has come a long way. I’m dating myself here, but procurement used to. The post Procurement, meet no-code development appeared first on Art of Procurement.

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FedTech Magazine

JANUARY 10, 2023

As cloud hyperscalers become an increasingly integral part of enterprise IT, more government agencies are adopting a multicloud approach by integrating two or more cloud environments to support their IT operations. Sometimes, IT leaders choose which cloud provider to use is based simply on which vendors are familiar. However, there are strategic reasons for why a particular cloud environment might be the best fit.

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GovLoop

JANUARY 13, 2023

Government agencies often espouse the need for data-driven decision-making, but where should the data come from? Who should determine how it’s used? And what kind of decisions are we talking about? Taka Ariga, the Government Accountability Office’s (GAO) Chief Data Scientist and Director of its Innovation Lab, has many thoughts on these topics. He describes GAO as “the microcosm of the federal government, the candy store for data science,” and said the lab has a dual purpose: first, to understan

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Art of Procurement

JANUARY 9, 2023

“We have so many priorities to consider. At the same time, we are navigating through the perfect storm. We have. The post [Pod] Navigating the Perfect Storm Using Category Management w/ Stephane Morel appeared first on Art of Procurement.

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FedTech Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2023

A recently released report from Accenture Federal Services and the Partnership for Public Service finds that federal agencies still lack the full, flexible customer experience funding needed to modernize their IT systems. According to the report, agencies lack the resources to consolidate customer data and share insights with the technology teams developing modern digital platforms.

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The Procurement School

JANUARY 12, 2023

Author: Liz Busch Do you feel that your organization may not be strategically procuring the goods, services and construction it needs? You’re not alone! Some organizations manage procurement reactively, where each acquisition is a stand-alone procurement once a need is identified which can ultimately result in multiple separate procurements for similar commodities.

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GovLoop

JANUARY 12, 2023

Many government agencies still rely heavily on paper. For example, to process millions of visa applications each year, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services handles documents that have been scanned and entered into a case management system for a human adjudicator to review. “You have a human operator reading 40 to 50 pages of documentation per visa applicant,” said Matthew Macnak, Director of Federal Technology Strategy at Instabase, a company that automates the processing of unstructured do

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Art of Procurement

JANUARY 13, 2023

Procurement 6 is a new short podcast from Art of Procurement that will be published in the Art of Procurement. The post [Pod] Procurement 6 – January 13th, 2023 appeared first on Art of Procurement.

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FedTech Magazine

JANUARY 12, 2023

Passwords are hard to remember and even harder to change periodically, and it’s increasingly difficult to devise strong credentials. Instead of confronting the challenge, many users rely on weak passwords and reuse them for multiple accounts. This makes it easy for cybercriminals to guess credentials or obtain them via phishing attacks. Once gathered, credentials can be sold on the dark web.

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Oxford College of Procurement and Supply

JANUARY 11, 2023

A company’s performance is heavily impacted by its supplier’s operations. Businesses can be negatively impacted when a supplier fails to meet the standard required. As such, it’s important to act quickly when faced with poor supplier performance, putting adequate processes in place to resolve the issue promptly and efficiently. In this post, we will explore some of the ways to improve poor supplier performance and protect your business from the potential cost of this.

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GovLoop

JANUARY 10, 2023

Agencies often see new technology as a broad remedy for their IT challenges, but that’s a misguided notion, said Craig Heartwell, Red Hat’s Managing Chief Architect for the North America Public Sector. Technology solutions are not silver bullets. “They only work on werewolves. There are no silver bullets in IT,” he said. Heartwell, whose firm specializes in open-source software, believes technology is actually an enabler that allows an agency’s people and processes to thrive, and he thinks

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Government Procurement Solutions

JANUARY 8, 2023

by Irene Morales -- The stock market is hitting 40 year record lows. The housing market is quickly declining. The national debt is up to 31 trillion and counting. It is a trying time for business owners. How are you rece.

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The Contractor's Perspective

JANUARY 12, 2023

Section 822 of the 2023 National Defense Authorization Act, Public Law No. 117-7776 (Dec. 23, 2022) provides new authority for some defense contractors and subcontractors to obtain price increases that address the impacts of inflation. The new authority is welcome relief for contractors and subcontractors holding fixed-price defense contracts, which typically do not allow a price increase due solely to inflation.

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WIFCON: Government Contracts

JANUARY 8, 2023

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GovLoop

JANUARY 10, 2023

At a time when there are more than 10 million open jobs in the United States, Ben Keenan keeps his ear to the ground about what’s happening in the government workforce. He serves as Chief Strategy Officer for the Human Resources Enterprise in Iowa’s Department of Administrative Services, following 15 years of privatesector experience. His concern isn’t just how many people are working, but who is working and what keeps them there — or keeps them away.

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ivalua

JANUARY 12, 2023

As public procurement teams face increasing pressure to improve efficiency while upholding compliance and transparency, it’s essential that they have the right strategies in place. After all, how can you streamline procurement processes without sacrificing your standards? In this blog post, we’ll discuss six key strategies to help public procurement teams optimize their workflows while maintaining regulatory compliance. .

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Government Procurement Solutions

JANUARY 7, 2023

by Leonardo Morales - The economic policies of the Biden administration have caused more destabilization and chaos in the country than the pandemic originating in China in 2020, when various countries - including great.

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GovLoop

JANUARY 10, 2023

Winter can be tough — on people and on the organizations they serve. It’s the height of flu season and, historically, cold weather is the favored stomping grounds of viruses in general. There are ways to support the people in your workplace, to help them be healthier and happier, and to keep your agency’s operations on track by keeping illnesses to a minimum.

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