Maximizing Acquisition Effectiveness: 3 Common Requirements Definition Pitfalls
To date, there has been minimal focus and attention on addressing the largest culprit of poor acquisition outcomes: inadequate requirements definition.
Posts By Derrick Moreira
FITARA 8.0: 3 Steps to Improve your Data Center Consolidation Score
Three key steps agencies should take to improve the management of their data centers and improve their FITARA grade.
Making the Grade: Improving Risk Management on the FITARA Scorecard 8.0
Agencies should take these three key next steps to Improve their FITARA 8.0 scorecards.
Pushing Category Management Forward: 4 Practical Next Steps
In the spring of 2018, OMB released a memo instructing agencies on steps they need to take to comply with the White House’s Category Management initiative. Here’s what agencies should do.
4 First Steps for Becoming an Outcome-Driven Organization
Four key first steps that can launch you on the path to optimizing your organization and its greatest asset, its workforce.
Defining Outcomes: 5 Questions that Every Organization Should be Asking
How an outcome-focused approach to operational effectiveness can produce measurable, lasting results, while simultaneously improving employee engagement and morale.
Don’t Just Improve Efficiency: Think Outcomes to Achieve Effectiveness
While focusing on efficiency is not a bad thing in and of itself, I would argue that a greater emphasis on understanding outcomes and effectiveness is where the transformational opportunity exists.
Operational Effectiveness in the Public Sector: What it Can Offer and How to Get Started
Although the mandates surrounding operational effectiveness are all intended to promote the adoption of private-sector best practices, it is not always clear how best to implement them within the federal environment. This creates an interesting opportunity for forward-thinking leaders to design implementation approaches that will work best for their environment.