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September 30, 2009
TCG Receives 2009 Inc. 5000 Award
We’re pleased to announce that TCG President Dan Turner officially accepted TCG’s 2009 Inc. 5000 award from Inc. magazine at the Inc. 500|5000 Black-tie Gala Dinner and Awards Ceremony on Friday, September 25, 2009 at the Gaylord National Convention and…
June 1, 2009
NGMA lunch canceled
The NGMA training lunch at which Dominic Sale, the OMB GMLOB Portfolio Manager, was scheduled to speak has been canceled. Apparently things are so hectic at OMB that it’s proven impossible to schedule any appropriate time.
The next NGMA lunch…
June 21, 2010
New on tcg.com
We’ve added case studies for LAMHDI and BFEM to the TCG website. Be sure to check them out!…
September 20, 2011
Reverse Project Estimation
TCG has a big goal we have been working towards for a number of years now. The plan is to save American taxpayers ONE BILLION DOLLARS by 2016. One of the ways we save government money is by suggesting and using existing…
March 6, 2008
Register for the 2008 Excellence.Gov Awards luncheon!
Registration is now open for the annual Excellence.Gov Awards luncheon, where all 20 of the award winners (list here) will be honored. The theme this year is “Improving Organizational Performance Using Information Technology”. (Disclosure: I’m the co-chair of the awards…
February 1, 2013
OMB to Host Webinar about Proposed New Federal Grants Regulations
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) will host an informational webinar with members of the grants community on February 8, 2013 at 11:00 a.m. regarding OMB’s proposed grants reform initiative. No advance registration will be required for the webinar,…
September 3, 2007
OMB on GMLOB: “Align with one the three Consortia Leads. There’ll be no more”
On Friday OMB made a significant announcement about the GMLOB to the CIO Council mailing list:
In the FY07 President’s Budget, OMB designated three agencies as consortia leads for the Grants Management Line of Business (GM LoB): the Department of Education,…
April 27, 2023
Kanban Best Practices to Elevate Client Services
By Tige Nishimoto, TCG Agile Capability Lead
As Agile practitioners know, one of the more popular lean-workflow management methods is Kanban. Kanban helps visualize work, maximize efficiency, and improve continuously. Work is represented on Kanban boards, allowing users to optimize…
November 11, 2008
Lines of Business: OMB’s Mistakes and How It Can Fix Them
Here is the fundamental challenge: Each new grant program passed by Congress creates a tiny new fiefdom in a government agency. This fiefdom directly gets funding and has the ability in many cases to set up its own management processes and systems.…
June 15, 2011
NITRC Passes Milestone
NITRC–the Neuroimaging Informatics Tools and Resources Clearinghouse–recently passed the 3,000 registered users level and now has 383 registered tools available for users. TCG built and operates NITRC for NIH. Under this contract, TCG established a web-based clearinghouse for neuroimaging analysis tools,…