You Need Only ‘One Minute’ to Get Ahead

If there ever was an international classic in business and management books, “The One Minute Manager” (William Morrow) by Kenneth Blanchard and Spencer Johnson would be it. Published in 1982 and hailed as a No. 1 bestselling phenomenon, the book has taught millions of managers in Fortune 500 companies and small businesses nationwide how to [...]

Wednesday Wins: Your Weekly Recap of the Biggest GovCon Contract Awards

Good news for Northrop Grumman this week: the firm landed a $100 million BPA to go along with a $775 million CANES award from the Navy.
SAIC turned heads with a $625 million software deal from the Navy and added a BPA through subsidiary R.W. Beck for good measure.
Paul Cofoni chimed in on CACI’s new DoD [...]

Jonas Blogs on “Smarter-er” Organizations

In a recent blog post titled “On A Smarter Planet…Some Organizations Will Be Smarter-er Than Others,” Jeff Jonas described what will happen to firms who handle prediction-enabling information better than others.
“The winners will be those organizations that make better decisions, faster,” writes Jonas.  “How fast?  Fast enough to do something smart as the transaction is happening, [...]

Executive Profile: Cyril Garcia of Capgemini

Cyril Garcia is strategy director at Capgemini and serves on the Group Executive Committee. He is  a 1989 graduate of the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris, a major French business and politics school. He began his career in 1991 as an adviser to the then-Minister of Industry Dominique Strauss-Kahn. In 1993, he joined Bossard Consultants, [...]

Executive Profile: Tony Spehar of Northrop Grumman Corporation

Tony Spehar serves as vice president and program manager for the Intercontinental Ballistic Missile Prime Integration Contract at Northrop Grumman Corporation. Most recently, Spehar was the chief engineer and director of the company’s Missile Systems Center of Excellence. Prior to that, he was vice president and general manager of the former Kinetic Energy Interceptors (KEI) [...]

Executive Profile: Dave Melcher of ITT Defense & Information Solutions

Dave Melcher is senior vice president of ITT Defense & Information Solutions. He joined ITT in 2008 as vice president of strategy and business development for defense. He was named president of ITT’s defense business and elected a corporate vice president later that year.
Before joining ITT, Melcher held a variety of roles during his 32 [...]

Executive Profile: Michael Cowan of Deloitte Consulting LLP

Michael Cowan is chief medical officer at the federal health sector of Deloitte Consulting LLP. He joined Deloitte in June 2009 upon its acquisition of BearingPoint’s Federal Practice. He is responsible for clinical leadership in healthcare, social services and Federal health consulting. He leads the development of new service offerings and the strategic recruitment and [...]

Executive Profile: Paul Nedzbala of SRA International Inc.

Paul Nedzbala is vice president and director of health research and informatics at SRA International Inc. Nedzbala manages the day-to-day operations of the global health sector unit, which provides research, informatics and IT services to the U.S. public health sector arena.
Nedzbala joined SRA in the acquisition of Constella Group, LLC, in August 2007. He was [...]

Sweet Dreams

If you’ve heard it once, as executives that are mostly sleep deprived, you’ve heard it dozens of time. Proper amounts of sleep significantly improve your quality of life.  Although most executives generally clock in about six hours a night, the Mayo Clinic recommends adults and seniors snooze between seven and eight hours a night.
A good [...]

Executive Profile: Don Picard of HP

Don Picard is vice president and segment leader of federal healthcare for HP’s U.S. Public Sector. He is responsible for business with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, including the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the Food and Drug Administration; the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs; and the Military Health System [...]

Executive Profile: Ray O. Johnson of Lockheed Martin Corporation

Executive Profile: Tom Anderson of Wyle

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