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Provide Technology Training for Efficiency and Productivity

Cynthia Reed

Keeping up with the latest technology and allowing a contractor to explore technology options can promote creativity and innovation and bring cost savings to firm fixed priced contracts. More »

Don’t Be Left Behind: Improving Knowledge Transfer

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Holly C Baxter

Almost everyone from government organizations to small and large corporations struggles to adapt more quickly. We push to manage increased information, and to capture and apply the expertise of skilled employees to make the organization more effective and efficient. To ... More »

Online Dialogues Help Promote Learning and Engage Citizens

Mary Leary

Imagine having the ability to obtain citizens’ perspectives on government programs, policies, procedures, or regulations quickly, inexpensively, and with few barriers to participation from a broad constituency. Imagine how much federal, state, and local official c... More »

Training to the Rescue: First Responders Power Up Skills While Cutting Costs

Alison Gjefle

In the movie Apollo 13, one of the scientists supporting the astronauts' return to Earth interrupts NASA Flight Director Gene Kranz, insisting "Power is everything! Without it, they don't talk to us, they don't correct their trajectory, they don't turn the heat shield a... More »

Getting Clear About the Cloud

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John Opiola

Suppose your project team has just been tasked with building a text-searchable database from 400,000 JPEG images of archived government documents. Each image must first be converted to portable document format (PDF) and then be converted to searchable text via optical c... More »