Reimagine Your Remote Solutions
Organizations must contend with cyber protection requirements, ever more complex technology and hiring disadvantages. Here are some tips to make innovation easier.
Acquisition
Getting Acquisition Closer to the Mission
The acquisition workforce has been undergoing a gradual, yet constant evolution for the past decade or more as they’ve had to learn about and adapt processes to meet the needs of cloud-based technology, a growing remote/distributed workforce, agile development, and general digital dependence.
Make Modernization a Constant
The public sector too often thinks of modernization as a series of one-and-done initiatives. But an organization’s self-improvement should be ongoing That means pivoting away from capital expenditures and putting modernization funding into an agency’s annual operating budget.
Help Procurement Keep Pace with Technology
While the technology that agencies buy has changed considerably in recent years, the process of buying it, not so much. So just as government IT faces modernization, the procurement of government IT needs to modernize, too.
4 Best Practices in Government Procurement
Maintaining a tight grip on procurement has been a long-standing challenge for governments of all sizes – but there are best practices to help ease the burden.
5 Ways to Find Greater Procurement Efficiencies With Category Management
Greater procurement efficiencies and paths to achieving small and social-economic business goals can be found with category management. Here’s how.
A Fresh Approach to Contracting for Social Good
Many states have conducted disparity studies to discover if inequities exist in public procurement that adversely affect women’s business or minority business enterprises. Unsurprisingly, they do.
Taking the Guesswork Out of Government Procurement
The more familiar customers are with the offerings on a contract, the easier it is to make efficient procurements the norm rather than the exception.
How Has the Pandemic Affected Government Procurement?
Government procurement organizations have faced three primary challenges during the pandemic: opacity, corruption and failure to integrate adequte policies.
How to Reduce Risks Associated with Inadequate Security
The best way to securing the IT supply chain is a process of working with trusted partners to analyze risk and make sound decisions.