Synopsis: Today’s organizations need to have people who can develop new kinds of solutions to meet pressing demands. Yet the words creativity and innovation often intimidate our people. Even if our organizations have creative people, our organizational cultures tend to suppress innovation. This “minds-on” course will provide the tools and techniques to reverse these trends. On Day 1, we will focus on helping employees enhance...

While ACT-IAC strives to forge strong government-industry partnerships, Harvard Business Review describes how customer service is at an all-time low in the United States. How can industry contractors provide better customer service to their government partners? How can government employees provide better service to their constituents and other federal customers? This course will describe the role of customer service; discuss customer turnoffs...

Synopsis: As an emerging business in the federal market how do you respond to the bid requests of the federal agencies? As a federal technology worker how do you write a proper statement of work? What are the various bids that need to have a response? When is too much information not applicable? This course will provide the basic tools in order for an individual to read a government requirement document, decide if the requirement is one for yo...

The Small Business Alliance presents Networking for People who Hate Networking with Devora Zack. Have you ever felt like you’re wasting your time at networking events? Not known whether an event would be a good investment? Or gone to a networking event alone and just didn’t know where to start or how to break into a conversation? Then this interactive program is for you. It doesn’t matter whether you’ve been in the busi...

THIS IS A CONFERENCE THAT HAS SOLD OUT FOR THE LAST 20 YEARS! The 2014 Executive Leadership Conference goals are simple: Connect great people with great ideas to inspire Leadership and Innovation in Radically Changing Times. In government today, an emerging collaborative ecosystem is transforming how, and with whom, people work. This requires that we adopt new approaches to carrying out agency missions and providing citizen services. ELC...

The 2014 Executive Leadership Conference goals are simple: Connect great people with great ideas to inspire Leadership and Innovation in Radically Changing Times. In government today, an emerging collaborative ecosystem is transforming how, and with whom, people work. This requires that we adopt new approaches to carrying out agency missions and providing citizen services. ELC’s Premise: Technology Both Addresses and Poses Our Toughest C...

The Rocky Mountain Chapter of the American Council for Technology & Industry Advisory Council (ACT-IAC) is pleased to announce that Scott Hogg, Chief Technology Officer at Global Technology Resources, Inc. (GTRI), and a founding member of the Rocky Mountain IPv6 Task Force, will speak at The Egg & I on October 23rd on Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6). During this presentation he will be addressing the current state of IPv6 adoption a...

Understanding how the government evaluates contractors’ proposals is a key step in pricing a deal to win. In this unique course, we review how the government contracting officers analyze contractors’ costs and prices; how they acquire their data; what reviews are performed; how data is validated; and how strategies are changed depending on the type of contract. Armed with this information, contractors can avoid the pitfalls that ca...

Come join the Small Business Alliance and the Small Business Administration on October 16th at the Ronald Reagan Building for Women Owned Small Business Straight Talk featuring SBA WOSB Guru Shuraie Mackin and International Trade Specialist Tanya Smith. This interactive event will debunk myths you may have heard about the WOSB certification and it’s limitations.

Come join the Small Business Alliance in-person or on-line on October 9th for an informative presentation given by the Small Business Administration’s HUBZone Program leadership team on how becoming a HUBZone firm or partnering with one can boost your business and community. The HUBZone Program was created in the late 1990s and was established primarily to stimulate capital investment in urban and rural communities designated as HUBZones...