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Recap & Recording: Missed Connection – Looking for Mutual GovCon Understanding
May 21, 2019
GovCon is full of missed connections.
Whether it’s the disconnect between Government and Industry or between best practices and operational reality, these disjointed concepts are quietly affecting your bottom line. Public Spend Forum and The Pulse as discussed three critical GovCon topics:
Key...
Recap & Recording: How to Buy Agile Development & Agile Consulting Services
May 9, 2019
Agile development is a hot topic today, given the pace of technological and social change. Ever since the infamous launch and crash of Healthcare.gov, public organizations have recognized its value as a replacement for traditional software development models like waterfall. But while the...
Implementing robotics and RPA in the public sector
Dec 12, 2019
Experts from Convedo tell Consultancy.uk how RPA can benefit the public sector. Because government departmental work requires a high level of non-strategic tasks like data entry, data collection, validation, and repetitive consolidation-type processes, automation, in the shape RPA, could rectify...
Digitalisation of the NHS – Cyber security in the healthcare supply chain
Dec 5, 2019
Orpheus – the UK government-accredited cyber threat intelligence company – has produced a paper on cyber security risk in the supply chain of the National Health Service (NHS). It looks at key findings on leaked credentials, suppliers at risk, gives average vulnerability scores of companies it...
Bigger Isn’t Always Better – Don’t Overestimate Economies of Scale
Dec 2, 2019
Excerpt from “A Procurement Compendium”
Why do we assume that bigger is better in procurement terms? That, if I aggregate my spend, if I have more volume to offer the market, then I will get a better deal? Why should this be so? It can only be because the supplier benefits from the economies of...
Top Government Contractors Providing Working Dogs and Related Services
Nov 9, 2019
By now you’ve heard the story about how a military working dog played an instrumental role in chasing down the leader of ISIS and helping to prevent major injury to everyone involved in the mission. But did you know that working dogs have been a part of government procurement for decades?...
Report Finds Growth in Cloud ITSM Markets and Highlights Major Suppliers
Nov 6, 2019
The global cloud information technology service management (ITSM) market size is forecasted to grow from an estimated value of $4.4 billion in 2019 to $10.4 billion by 2024. The ITSM market is made of solutions service portfolio management, problem and incident management, service desk software,...
E-procurement Enabling Procurement Transformation
Nov 4, 2019
New York City and Arizona are part of a growing e-procurement trend that cuts across the public sector and commercial industry. In a case study presented by the Governing Institute and Ivalua, we take a look at how these organizations are modernizing their procurement processes for more effective...
Top Suppliers Highlighted in Global Military Virtual Training Market Report
Oct 31, 2019
The “Military Virtual Training Market” shares the potential supply and demand, value, competition of the market as well as the top players to watch within this emerging market. Different organizations, manufacturers, and vendors also play a role in the market.
These top players are employing...
Suppliers Worth Watching Within the Extended Reality Market
Oct 22, 2019
Augmented and virtual reality products and services are a hot topic in the public sector. With applications ranging from training to simulations to data interaction, nearly all government organizations stand to benefit from extended reality solutions.
And the industry has definitely taken note,...
Defence Secretary Ben Wallace addresses the NATO Parliamentary Assembly on Cyber Security
Oct 17, 2019
The UK Defence Secretary addressed parliamentarians from across the NATO Alliance at the NATO Parliamentary Assembly this week. “For a long time there has been pressure for us all to increase investment in defence. And the United Kingdom is proud to have heeded that call. Last month our spending...
Suppliers for Virtual and Augmented Reality Products and Services
Oct 11, 2019
Augmented and virtual reality products and services are a hot topic in the public sector. With applications ranging from training to simulations to data interaction, nearly all government organizations stand to benefit from extended reality solutions. To help you understand this ever-changing...
