Tuesday, January 6, 2009
Introducing the Insider
The Industry Defined
HUBZones: Anyone Can Play
Beyond Reproach: The Incumbent's Bind
Breaking Wave: Human Resources BPO
Cooperative Personnel Services: Differentiating Not a Problem
Adventures in Marketing
Policy & Regs: Can We Satisfy the Appetite for Cleared Personnel?
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You might wonder why the PWC LLP accounting firm would have a bankruptcy expert lead the firm's federal business. We did, but it makes sense when you learn Carter Pate's approach to fixing sick companies. In the federal arena, he's aiming at helping agencies safeguard big IT projects from their usual fate. Learn his approach and gauge the odds against the background of public perceptions of accounting firms.
What happens when you assemble about 250 defense contractors to share best practices in management and business conduct? The Insider found out when invited to mingle with this group during the annual meeting of the Defense Industry Initiative, an organization founded 19 years ago in response to forebodings about, and the sting of, Operation Ill Wind.
Blame it on what the Insider covers sometimes, but we can't help grasping for a lesson learned for the industry that can be drawn from the emergence of Mark Felt. Thoughts turn to how to reduce the probabilities of spawning whistleblowers.
In this season of contests and rankings, from Miss Universe to the Fortune 500, we considered what two rankings of companies' federal IT contract revenues might tell us. Some of the value is surely in the eye of the beholder. We added some data and interpretation to the compilations, which are based on GSA's FPDS-NG database.
If you're reading this you're probably several organizational layers away from the person in your company who deals with the Central Contract Registration database run by GSA.
Fine, but it would be a good idea to double-check that that person is ensuring that your firm's CCR records perfectly satisfy government requirements. If not, there's a good chance you won't receive federal contract payments. Alan Chvotkin tells you why and what to do about it.
Learn what the FBI plans to do to replace the botched Virtual Case File program. Take another look at Arthur Andersen & Company, and ask yourself whether its now overturned criminal conviction is really what brought it down. Consider the announced L-3 Communications purchase of Titan Corp.; how good a deal is it?