Tag: budget formulation and execution
October 16, 2020
Apportionment Tool Receives Innovation Award from Public Sector 360
When you think of innovative technology in the government sector, artificial intelligence, robotic process automation, and blockchain may spring immediately to mind. Sometimes, however, innovation relies not on the newest tech but using existing tools as elegant solutions to complex…
May 15, 2019
New Resources to Roll-out and Mature TBM at Federal Agencies
The General Services Administration (GSA) and Department of Education (ED) recently published a TBM Playbook, calling for seven activities they consider key to starting a successful TBM program. The playbook is a compilation of best practices and lessons learned from rolling out TBM…
May 3, 2019
Moving Past Compliance to Getting Real Value From Your TBM Program
The federal Capital Planning and Investment Control (CPIC) policies established in 1996 were a great first step toward understanding and managing IT investments. But just as government’s use of technology has evolved over the past 23 years, so have the policies…
April 25, 2019
What’s the Process for Creating Federal IT Policy?
Managing more than $80 billion of IT investments across 26 agencies is no small feat. Using sophisticated tools such as ITDashboard.gov, the U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB) works with agencies to collect vast amounts of data and uses…
January 30, 2019
A TBM Maturity Model for Federal Agencies
It has only been two budget cycles since the Office of the Federal Chief Information Officer (OFCIO) at the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) changed the IT budgeting process to be based on Technology Business Management (TBM)…
August 14, 2018
Ready or Not, Here it Comes: Prepare for Technology Business Management
What is TBM?
IT supports most aspects of a modern organization’s performance but it’s historically been difficult to correlate IT investments to business outcomes. Technology Business Management (TBM) is a way to address that challenge. TBM is an expense and budgeting framework and…
July 17, 2018
TCG to Continue Support of the Budget Line of Business and MAX.gov Technology Services
Washington, DC —TCG, an award-winning information technology solutions and advisory services provider, has been awarded the Budget Line of Business (LoB) and MAX.gov Technology Services contract from the U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB).
Under this contract, TCG will…
June 13, 2018
Budget Line of Business 2018 Spring Forum Session Recordings Now Available!
TCG and other federal leaders presented developments, resources, and technology solutions for the federal budget process at the 23rd Annual Budget Line of Business (Budget LoB) Spring Forum. A recording of each session will be made available to those who registered…
December 18, 2017
Shared Services that Streamline Government Processes
Built from a shared service, as a shared service, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Budget Formulation and Execution Manager (BFEM.gov) supports the strategic planning, formulation, and performance management of the federal budget. Initially designed as a tool for the Treasury to collect information…
September 9, 2020
Apportionment Manager
Challenge
An efficient Apportionment process requires effective coordination between an agency and its bureaus. Agencies addressed their internal processes, workflows, and submissions with a disparate collection of tools, shared drives, email and paper, creating challenges with version control, transparency, and processing…