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Making Solutions Come to Life: Integrating Designs into Mission Operations

Making Solutions Come to Life: Integrating Designs into Mission Operations

Government programs are large and complex, and their customers and stakeholders are demanding and have different priorities and goals. Designing solutions to new challenges when programs have increased mission responsibilities or unexpected challenges is important. It gets hard when agencies need to incorporate these new processes, tools, and methods into their organizations and workflow without disrupting ongoing operations and while gaining the buy-in of the workforce that needs to make these solutions come alive.

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Key Components of Data Strategy

Key Components of Data Strategy

For many years, Governments have viewed data as a byproduct of activity with little value. This sentiment, however, is changing rapidly. Today, organizations are trying to get every little advantage they can get over another to achieve their goals, and in doing so, have taken advantage of what data has to offer.

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Amplifying Customer Experience By Looking Through a Behavioral Science Lens

Amplifying Customer Experience By Looking Through a Behavioral Science Lens

The emerging fields of Customer Experience (CX) and behavioral science have steadily grown in popularity over the past few years. Leading organizations worldwide are adopting and implementing CX to achieve great success. However, highly impactful tactics that lie at the intersection of CX and behavioral science are being overlooked and underutilized. By using a behavioral science lens, organizations can amplify CX initiatives to multiple their already impressive results.

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Data-Driven Mission Insights Through Design-Driven Dashboards

Data-Driven Mission Insights Through Design-Driven Dashboards

The amount of data that is available now and is still becoming available creates a wealth of opportunity for Government agencies and organizations to improve decision-making. With more complex and large data sets at its disposal, the Government can use data visualization to help increase understanding of what data is showing and what it means. In other words, data can be used to tell a story and help the Government can make better decisions.

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Eric Smith
Breakthrough Facilitation: Powerful Offsites Drive Mission Results

Breakthrough Facilitation: Powerful Offsites Drive Mission Results

Senior leaders in Government increasingly recognize the value of an offsite or workshop for their leadership team. It can jump start a strategy, solve one of the organization’s biggest problems, launch a new program, or help make data-driven decisions. Offsites allow teams to concentrate on a strategy, an initiative, or a complex problem that they otherwise cannot devote time to due to other deadlines, distractions, or day-to-day responsibilities.

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Lynn Ann Casey
Behavioral Science in the Government: Strategically Designing Actionable Conversations

Behavioral Science in the Government: Strategically Designing Actionable Conversations

Conversations are key for exchanging thoughts and ideas and creating an opportunity to listen to each other. Though the purpose of discussion is to advance and increase comprehension of an idea, not everyone leaves a conversation with a clear path forward. In fact, people often leave conversations uncertain. In cases like this, a follow-up conversation is required, increasing the time it takes to act and reducing momentum in providing measurable results.

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Spark Stakeholder Innovation in Your Strategic Communications

Spark Stakeholder Innovation in Your Strategic Communications

As communicators, we develop comprehensive strategies that outline how to use a variety of communication channels that promote our messages or campaign platforms with the hopes of informing, inspiring and motivating our audiences to action. But, what about your stakeholders – those individuals from whom you seek buy-in? Have you systematically thought about who they are and what they can offer?

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Culture Insight 5: Live Values of Loyalty and Respect

Culture Insight 5: Live Values of Loyalty and Respect

Arc Aspicio continuously fosters values of loyalty and respect among its employees. We look for it in in the people we hire. But it does not end there. A career with our company includes a fundamental understanding and cultivating of respect and loyalty in everything we do. By emphasizing loyalty and respect and finding people who innately hold these values, our employees reflect them outward to our clients while solving their most complex problems and serving their mission.

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Culture Insight 4: Collaborate and Be Social

Culture Insight 4: Collaborate and Be Social

Think back to your first day at a new company. Most likely, things were unfamiliar, and you may have felt a little overwhelmed from meeting so many new faces and entering a new work environment. At Arc Aspicio, we are proud of a culture that strives to make every employee, new or seasoned, feel welcome and included so that they are ready to collaborate and develop relationships within our company.

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Culture Insight 2: Work, Lead, Act

Culture Insight 2: Work, Lead, Act

Work, Lead, Act. This is one of the five areas of Arc Aspicio’s culture that represents how we work every day for our clients to change the world. To me, Work, Lead, Act means that we own our work, are relentless in execution, are resilient in the face of failure, and exhibit leadership and passion in all we do.

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Culture Insight 1: Bravely Explore and Innovate

Culture Insight 1: Bravely Explore and Innovate

Exploration comes in many forms, like choosing the less-defined trail on a hike, putting the navigation system away and driving to see where the road takes you, or finally taking that creative writing class you always wanted to take. For a lot of people, exploration simply means taking the time to do something without knowing what the outcome will be.

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