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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The FBI elected to conduct its second attempt to buy a case file system in a selective and secretive manner. According to two sources, the FBI received only two bids. Is there enough competition for a horserace?
It took CSC about a year and a half to decide to sell recently acquired DynCorp. Veritas Capital purchased most of DynCorp from CSC in February 2005. Just seven months later, Veritas has filed plans to take DynCorp public. Here's the positioning.
There are only a few real players in federal HR business process outsourcing. We found one, YRCI, a small business, that has unusual positioning. Read an interview with founder John Jaeger.
The Insider talked with five mutual and hedge funds that invest in the government services industry. Here's what interests them, plus other factors they might consider.
To reward the positive response to last month's Quotations from Chairman Lanza, we went back to Defense Acquisition Performance Assessment advisory panel testimony. Read the very candid observations of Larry Farrell, president of NDIA.
We'll have to wait until the "latter part of October" to see BearingPoint's fiscal 2004 results. The firm says its own struggles with Sarbanes-Oxley compliance are partly responsible for the delay. At the same time, BearingPoint prominently advertises its Sarbanes-Oxley services on its Web site.
KPMG LLP had its time in the barrel of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board. We suggest how you should look at the results from a business viewpoint.
Alan Chvotkin helps sort out what the legitimate parallels are and suggests how to proceed.