This Potomac Forum Training Workshop will help agencies comply and meet NARA records management requirements. As Agencies work to meet upcoming deadlines for managing federal government records, NARA continues to focus on ways to help agencies implement electronic records management including shared services, training, digitization, GSA partnerships, and how to manage emails and other records in accordance with regulations and policy and e-di...

This Potomac Forum Training Workshop will help you develop or fine-tune the expertise needed to align your organization with key category management principles, and begin executing key category management actions defined in the OMB M-19-13 Category Management: Making Smarter Use of Common Contract Solutions and Practices. Learn how to better manage your organization by applying category management principles, processes, and tools from subject...

Government agencies are facing ever increasing challenges to modernize and engage with citizens and stakeholders through digital channels. But you can’t just flip a switch to become a digital government. Change like that takes new tools, new processes and a new way of thinking. Essentially, you need to transform the way you work. But with regulations, security concerns and diminishing resources that can be easier said than done. That...

Federal, State and Local Knowledge Management professionals have been working on turning information into knowledge since the 1990’s. The need for government to learn, innovate, adapt and change continues to grow in importance. Knowledge Management can be a key driver for positive change and should be used to solve agency problems and help agencies perform better. By implementing and enhancing KM strategies, government agencies can more...

Overview: With the Technology Business Management (TBM) outlined as a priority in the President's management agenda, and the progress made by OMB/GSA in formalizing the overarching approach to TBM for the federal government, agencies must be equipped with the right knowledge to make their TBM implementation decision to ensure alignment with their missions, goal, structure, and IT environment. This workshop aims at providing the actionable ele...

Learn ways to improve your communications strategy at this one-track, government training designed to bring together senior-level, government communicators to share tips and tricks to solve your biggest challenges. Discover cost-effective ways to maximize employee engagement, achieve mission-critical results and enhance communication efforts, including how to: Operate digital communication tools within the boundaries of government restrictions...

This workshop will focus on the Office of Management and Budget’s recent April 2017 memo calling for a Comprehensive Plan to Reform the Federal Government. This one day course is designed to offer a framework into how category management and shared services can serve as enablers for improving the efficiency and effectiveness of agencies, one of the four categories each agency is required to address and align to its mission, role, and pe...

With the recent headlines regarding government email retention and e-discovery, it is important to understand how the NARA/OMB regulations and deadlines will impact your agency. This one-day Potomac Forum Workshop will focus on the activities mandated by the NARA/OMB Records Management Directive. Key executives from NARA and government agencies will discuss the directive and its implementation. Detailed review and analysis of the directive wi...

2017 DATA CENTER BRAINSTORM - Data Center Optimization: The Piggy Bank for Federal IT Modernization In 2016, the White House pushed IT modernization to the forefront of Federal agencies’ agendas – with an updated Data Center Optimization Initiative (DCOI) and the Federal Information Technology Acquisition Reform Act (FITARA) paving the way. 2017 brings a new Administration. IT modernization is still center stage of Federal IT agend...

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. “Advancing the Analytics-Driven Organization” 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 maj...