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Running IT Like a Business: How Technology Business Management is Shaping the Future of Federal Agencies
As the Government continually looks for ways to increase efficiency and encourage innovation, Information Technology (IT) is emerging as a solution to these needs. Recent Federal guidance mandates all agencies to adopt a new framework for better understanding IT costs. Technology Business Management (TBM) is a framework that incorporates IT departments into the overall business network, shifting away from treating IT as an independent unit. This provides a clear way to evaluate and manage IT, running IT as a business and communicating the value of new IT investments.
Northern Virginia Chamber of Commerce Nominates Arc Aspicio for Good Business Awards
Arc Aspicio is a nominee for the Greater Washington Good Business Awards, the premier event of the year for the Northern Virginia Chamber of Commerce. These awards recognize the leadership of individuals, businesses, and nonprofits that serve as champions for good in Greater Washington community.
Behavioral Science – Using Behavioral Science to Affect Action
How do organizations encourage behavior change in their customers? Increasingly, they focus on customer experience, and as a consequence employ behavioral science methodologies. At the heart of behavioral science is the consideration of how an organization can make small investments that generate incremental savings/returns while considering both customers and organizational benefits. One example is Transportation Security Administration’s (TSA) Pre✓® and U.C. Customs and Border Protection’s Global Entry programs.
A Talent Leader Perspective: What Makes a High Performing Team?
At Arc Aspicio, we build exceptional teams that deliver high quality and bold solutions for both our clients and our company. As a talent leader, I have spent the past nine years building consulting teams that achieve results. Before this, I was a college athlete on a successful sports team.
Storytelling with Data
In 2014, The World Bank conducted research on their website traffic to determine if anyone was reading what they published online. They found that one third of the documents were never downloaded. Forty percent had fewer than 100 downloads. Only 13 percent had been downloaded more than 250 times.
Arc Aspicio Sponsors Eighth Search Dog
Arc Aspicio sponsored their eighth search dog, Lexi, this month through the National Disaster Search Dog Foundation (SDF). SDF is a non-profit organization that trains rescue dogs and pairs them with first responders. Arc Aspicio has been sponsoring search dogs since 2011, when they first partnered with SDF.
What do Arc Aspicio and the Blue Rooster Have in Common?
A huge blue rooster that looked like it was made of paper mache. I was totally enthralled. I love blue. I love art. And here was an artist who took a huge risk making a sculpture of a giant blue cockerel and someone decided to unveil it on the vacant fourth plinth in London. Yes, I wanted an excuse to use the word plinth in a blog.
Developing Future Leaders
To stay competitive, organizations must continually identify and develop future leaders. Federal agencies and companies alike should intentionally integrate leaders into their human capital strategies as they prepare for the future of work.
Launching into #Action Through Strategy
As a new employee, your first company-wide meeting can make you nervous. This was how I felt.
Arc Aspicio’s recent Strategy Launch Day was so well planned and it involved participants so that I learned that I had nothing to worry about! The company treats each employee equally and equips even the newest joiners with the information and skills they need to have a meaningful experience
What Being a Consultant Means to Me
As a Consulting Associate at Arc Aspicio, I provide expertise and insight to help clients solve difficult problems. To be successful, a consultant does not need only to be a subject matter expert on their client’s industry and needs - though this often ends up happening over time.
Captivate Your Audience Through Design+Data
So often, senior leaders must communicate their strategic and simple vision in a world of growing complexity. They must make decisions – and frequently explain them – based on an enterprise view of their data. It’s getting easier to do this these days through data visualizations and infographics that speak to specific employee and stakeholder audiences. Design+Data is what we call it at Arc Aspicio.
Chief Data Officers: Six Steps to Manage Data as an Enterprise Asset
With an exponential increase in the types and quantities of data, organizations need defined strategies and techniques to manage data as an enterprise asset. To create enterprise-wide use of data, a Chief Data Officer (CDO) needs a clear data agenda for leadership and the whole organization to address current and future needs. CDOs should follow this six-part data plan to achieve short term capability gains and plot a path to greater enterprise data maturity.
Project Management: Making the Impossible Request… Possible
We tell ourselves, our coworkers, and our kids to at least try before saying “I can’t.” So, what happens when we are presented with an urgent challenge that, on paper, just seems impossible? The resources, the budget, and the schedule might just not add up.
Securing Cyberspace: Agile Strategy to Counter Changing Threats
Cybersecurity, managing and protecting computer systems from attacks, is evolving just as quickly as the techniques hackers use to cause damage. Historically, the public and private sectors believed that stronger technology and more advanced computer systems alone were enough to prevent attacks. As new trends emerge and the technologies used to both conduct and prevent hackings improve, cybersecurity strategies must remain agile, trying new tactics to counter changing threats.
Professional Services Council Elects Lynn Ann Casey to Board of Directors
Arlington, VA, (January 18, 2019) — The Professional Services Council (PSC) elected Lynn Ann Casey, Chief Executive Officer of Arc Aspicio, to its Board of Directors during its annual membership meeting. Casey will serve a three-year term.
Hacking Back – Do the Benefits Outweigh the Risks?
With the increased frequency and sophistication of cyber-attacks worldwide, companies and executives are becoming frustrated with a traditional focus on defensive tactics. As a result, some private sector actors are taking a more active role in cybersecurity by “hacking back” – hacking against the very groups that are attacking their systems in retaliation or to retrieve stolen data. As hacking back rises in popularity, it is important to consider a number of political and legal issues and the risks to counter-terrorism efforts.
Boldly Exploring Technology to Build an Innovative Workforce
Since I first learned about the Ctrl+C and Ctrl+Z keyboard short cuts in elementary school, I have been addicted to experimenting with new technologies that can improve productivity and innovation. It’s incredible to see a steady stream of new business products arrive into the mass market and bring exponential increases in productivity and innovation.
Rob O’Keefe Named CEO Report’s Innovator and Entrepreneur Award Winner
Arlington, VA, October 19, 2018 — CEO Report announced that Arc Aspicio President Rob O’Keefe won the 2018 Innovator and Entrepreneur Award. This award celebrates high-impact executives that are propelling their company forward with innovative ideas, products, and services.
LeadersNest Names Lynn Ann Casey a FedFem Award Honoree
Washington, DC, October 19, 2018 — LeadersNest named Arc Aspicio CEO Lynn Ann Casey a FedFem Award Honoree. The FedFem awards salute high-impact women executives and leaders of the government contracting community. FedFem Award Honorees blend their entrepreneurial courage and Federal government support that effectively impacts the industry, national economy, and the local marketplace.
Boosting the Mission: Developing Acquisition Requirements Guidance
To keep up with the fast pace of change in the field of Government acquisitions, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) components are developing their own acquisition requirements (AR) policies. However, without specific timeframes to finalize these policies, DHS agencies often lack guidance on how to develop ARs. Among DHS agencies, the U.S. Coast Guard is leading the way with their own formal policy to describe this process. To compliment the U.S. Coast Guard’s policy, DHS created the Joint Requirements Integration and Management System (JRIMS) to offer direction for agencies—to review, validate, and suggest solutions for capability gaps and requirements.