Informing effective and efficient decision-making
Pivotal is committed to delivering timely research that addresses the significant business and technology challenges facing the public sector. As part of this ongoing effort, we follow a knowledge area approach, which results in a series of research and consulting efforts relating to particular knowledge areas, which we call Domains.
The following is a list of the specific research under consideration within each domain over the next 6 months. We are here to serve your needs. If you believe that there is an important topic that we are not addressing, or if the focus of our research is not on target, please let us know.
- The role of the Program Manager
- Multi-contractor management/integration
- Earned Value Management (EVM)
- Best Practices in Systems Engineering/Information Management
- The SEI Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI)
- Using management dashboards to drive performance
- Strategic planning best practices in government
- EVM vs. qualitative risk analysis: Can government improve IT and program management? Research prospectus available!!
- Realigning strategy and program planning (PART)
- Best Practices in IT project management
- Effective project termination
- The costs and benefits of PMO for public sector software product implementations
- The future of strategic human capital management in the US government
- IT and business alignments: Strategic planning and information technology acquisition
- Best public procurement practices: the use of procurement outsourcing in the public sector. Research prospectus available!!
- The large complexities of managing small business programs. Research prospectus available!!
- Bridging military and business culture in acquisition management
- Use procurement performance measures at different stages of procurement
- Acquisition oversight costs: The true costs and success of public sector vendor evaluation
- Risk management and acquisition reform
- IT and business alignments: Strategic planning and information technology acquisition
- The evolving role of the federal government procurement officer: best practices of IT procurement officers
- Benchmark Report: Information Management infrastructure costs for US Army, Navy and Air Force Research, Development and Acquisition Commands
- The use of procurement outsourcing in the public sector
- Public sector outsourcing partnerships: strategies for public sector business process outsourcing (BPO)
- State government outsourcing strategies: best practices and lessons learned
- The evolution of the Public Sector call center
