In 2009, the Ways and Means committee put forth the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act or HITECH Act. The bill states that Health information technology helps save lives and lower costs. One of the four major goals of the legislation is to “Strengthening Federal privacy and security law to protect identifiable health [...]
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As with all of government, the Department of Defense is facing slimmer budgets and looking at ways to save money. Basically as Ashton Carter, Deputy Secretary, Department of Defense, put it: “To do more, without more.” In December 2010, John Young, a senior fellow at Potomac Institute for Policy Studies and a former U.S. undersecretary of defense [...] There has been an ongoing discussion in Linked-In about why some procurement saving initiatives or strategic sourcing plans fail to realize the savings they are projected to have. The comments to the questions have revealed a few likely reasons so many projects fail. I work primarily with government agency buying groups, but the following comments pertain [...] As is the case with commercial shoppers, government buyers can also benefit in a number of ways from shopping online. 1. Convenience and time saving From the Contracting Officer’s perspective – writing a general purpose contract one time and letting buyers make purchase orders against that contract saves a lot of time. A number of federal agencies have [...] I saw a discussion recently on Linked-In on why companies are turning toward having a few preferred suppliers rather than selecting items on price alone. This strategy is known as Strategic Sourcing. The question spurred quite a discussion. Here are some of the key points. Price alone has nothing to do with material standards, product quality, or [...] There are a number of arguable benefits to the consumer of online shopping verses traditional brick and mortar stores. 1. Convenience and time saving – Shopping on the Internet can save time. A consumer does not have to travel to a store or adjust his schedule around the store’s hours. No longer does a consumer have [...] Over the last 15 years, eCommerce has fundamentally changed the way we buy things. Before the advent of eCommerce, individuals and businesses looking to purchase items were forced to either shop from store to store, or search through stacks of paper catalogs and then call the merchant to order. Now you can sit at a computer in [...] While re-arranging my office space, I came across a book on government supply chain management. In 2004, the Honorable Jacques S. Gansler, former Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics, and Robert E. Luby Jr., Vice President, Supply Chain Management at IBM published a book titled: Transforming Government Supply Chain Management. In the book, [...] For a number of years now, the business community has benefitted from the impact of Business to Business (B2B) markets. Their impact on the economy is evident in several ways: Transaction costs. Three cost areas are significantly reduced through the conduct of B2B e-commerce. First is the reduction of search costs, as buyers need not go through multiple [...] Continuing our discussion of Service Oriented Architecture, let’s look at some of the chief benefits. SOA is designed to eliminate dependencies on a particular implementation technology. When services are accessed through a common interface, the underlying implementation can change without changing the systems that build upon them. The implementation of the service can change for many reasons, [...] |
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