TCG Saved Taxpayers $1 Billion!

Don’t call us heroes. We did not save children from burning buildings, steal from the rich to give to the poor, or save our city from the forces of darkness. We did something much more frugal: We saved U.S. taxpayers…

Shared Services Gets Needed Governance in New Memo M-19-16

by Dave Cassidy, Vice President OMB has given federal shared services a renewed boost with memo M-19-16, Centralized Mission Support Capabilities for the Federal Government. While there’s plenty of new ideas in this memo, and it rescinds a ton of…

Shared Services Maximize Federal Grants for Discovery Science

The Neuroimaging Informatics Tools and Resources Clearinghouse (NITRC) is one of TCG’s longest-running projects and is among the most fruitful government shared services. What started as a small project to create a way for the federally funded neuroscience community to…

Why We BHAGed

Explained in a Positively Distinct Video   Is BHAGing a thing? Is it BHAGing or bhaging? It may sound vulgar but we swear it’s pure, unadulterated awesome. A BHAG – a Big, Hairy, Audacious Goal – as defined by business…

A Case for Embracing Shared Services

Keeping track of an $81.5 billion IT portfolio across 26 agencies with staff spread throughout the nation and, in some cases, overseas, is hairy, to say the least. There are bound to be duplication of efforts, systems, and software. For…

What Were They Thinking?

Realizing the Benefits of CMMI Have you ever picked up someone’s work while they were on vacation and thought to yourself, “What were they thinking?” Maybe they set up a document in an illogical way, or you can’t figure out…

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…