ABOUT THIS COURSE This two-day course will prepare functional managers and analytic practitioners to finally make sense of data analytics and take control of the analytic process. “Transforming Data to Decisions” develops core skills for data analytics and lays the foundation for data-intensive analytic projects that deliver insight, clarity, confidence and actionable decision support. Attendees will learn the four major types of p...

This course is designed to help scientists and engineers plan and conduct experiments and analyze the data to develop predictive models used to optimize processes and products and solve complex problems. DOE is an extremely efficient method to understand which variables (and interactions) affect key outcomes and allows the development of mathematical models used to optimize process and product performance. The models also provide an understand...

Overview:Writing SOPs or procedural documents can be challenging at times. However, writing SOPs is overall a straightforward process. However, enforcing what you already created and implemented in the pipeline is another story. The term SOP is very obvious. We have seen "clearly written description of how specific tasks are to be done." Another satisfactory definition would be "detailed written instructions that achieve the uniformity of the...

Lowest Price Technically Acceptable (LPTA) – Training for Government to Avoid the Frustration of Not Awarding a Contract the Government Knows May Not Meet its Best Long Term Program and Cost Interests.Almost every discussion with government CXOs, Program Managers, Contracting Officers and other Managers revolve around the challenges of evaluating proposals and selecting contractors based upon Lowest Price Technically Acceptable (LPTA) a...

Gain an understanding of HUD Section 3 regulations and challenges to avoid penalties, suspension, or worse. Many recipients including attorneys, developers, contractors, city managers, superintendents, mayors, city administrators, county and municipal officials, public relations directors, and other government professionals of HUD funding who are required to comply with Section 3 requirements fail to document their efforts to hire low and very...

Following the presidential election every four years, the Executive Branch goes through a massive, months-long transition; as one Administration departs and another takes office, thousands of career civil servants have to weather the inevitable turbulence that comes with it... and still keep the government running all the while. As anyone who’s been through this knows, that’s no small feat, and the 2016/2017 version may be even mor...

The GSA Federal Acquisition Training Symposium will take place May 10-11, 2016, at the Von Braun Center in Huntsville, Alabama. This event is specially designed to benefit federal government employees and military members who make or influence procurement decisions. An invaluable experience for acquisition or program managers, the training and exhibition provides you with opportunities to: Build your acquisition knowledge with our extensive, t...

Understand how to make sense of the myriad of requirements of the public records and public meetings laws in Washington. The public records and public meetings laws provide multiple challenges to local government agencies. The agency must provide training on an ongoing basis to protect taxpayers from daily penalties and legal fees, and to reduce the amount of the daily penalty if a record is inadvertently withheld. The public meetings laws red...

In the last eight years, tens of millions more Americans are online, and mobile devices continue to radically change how citizens interact with government. The Administration’s digital strategy is pushing agencies to deliver better services at a lower cost, whether the mission is to support the warfighter overseas, to teach in classrooms more efficiently, or to assist in ending homelessness, and ever-smarter mobile devices are part of th...

The White House set a goal of raising the government wide engagement score to 67% by the 2016 Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey. This workshop is designed to help Federal leaders understand how to effectively cultivate a culture of engagement that connects each employee to the mission of their organization through engagement and excellence in order to lead to higher organizational performance, employee empowerment and an effective performance...