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September 2020 Newsletter
Note from the CEOThis is a remarkable time for Women-Owned Small Business (WOSB). For only the second time since its inception, the WOSB Federal Contracting Program not only reached, but exceeded its target to achieve five percent of all awarded contracts during...
You Can Still Grow Your Business During a Crisis
As it became clear that the COVID-19 pandemic was going to impact all businesses, we gathered together as a company to assess our next steps. I asked my team two key questions. First, we needed to determine what decisions had to be made immediately in anticipation of...
Managing Project Change to Your Benefit
Challenge A large federal nuclear facility did not have an integrated standard formal outage process. The informal outage process has resulted in failed outages, higher project and operations costs, inefficient management of systems maintenance and unplanned...
Management Solutions Proves Pandemic is No Barrier to Business Growth
Knoxville, TN — August 25, 2020 — Management Solutions, a national award-winning performance management and consulting services firm, today announced significant company growth led by several important contract wins from some of the nation’s largest...
Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management Awards Management Solutions Four-Year Contract
Oak Ridge, Tenn. – On June 30, the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management (OREM) awarded Management Solutions, LLC a four-year contract to provide business and administrative support. The contract to the Knoxville-based, 8(a),...
Serving Our Communities
Management Solutions, LLC promotes a work environment that recognizes we are part of something larger. We believe in being good stewards in our local communities and offer a variety of opportunities for involvement to our employees. We not only work in our communities...
July 2020 Newsletter
June has been a very busy month for Management Solutions, highlighted by the successful launch of our new subsidiary, Talent Solutions. Talent Solutions is a purpose-driven workforce development and recruitment firm created to meet the overwhelming need to identify,...
Management Solutions Launches Workforce Development And Recruiting Subsidiary
New Firm will Recruit, Train and Deploy Professionals to Fill the 15M Vacant Project Controls Jobs Nationwide. KNOXVILLE, Tenn., June 15, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Management Solutions, one of the nation’s most successful performance management and consulting...
Proud supporter of Mission of Hope
Management Solutions is proud to be a Green Sponsor at this year’s 14th Annual Mission of Hope & Chick-fil-A Golf Classic. “It’s an honor to partner with an organization that’s making such a huge difference in the lives of so many families in the...
The Restoration House Breaks Ground on Phase 2 of The Village
Management Solutions was proud to be part of the groundbreaking ceremony to start Phase 2 of The Village. Upon completion of The Village, TRH will expand capacity from 8 units to 25 units which will impact 140-160 single mothers and 280-320 children over the next 10...
Project Management Assessment and Recommendations Process White Paper
By Cherie Chance & Scott Major Implementations of project management offices or project management governance often have limited success due to a poor understanding not only of where the organization is starting but also of what they are trying to achieve...
Want the value of EVMS without all the rigor? Consider Earned Value Lite
By: Rose Echols, Senior Project Controls Specialist Many project managers may shy away from using a traditional Earned Value Management System (EVMS) because of the complexity, rigor and additional cost of maintaining it. There is, however, another way to get the...
Best Practices for Continuous Improvement
By: Chris Bible, Program Manager Our customers are the reason that our business exists. Consistent conformance to our customer’s expectations is critical to our success. By striving to exceed our customer’s expectations, we can set the bar for quality standards...
Cost and Schedule Management Still Matter
Over the last decade, there has been a lot of focus on the newer ideas and trends in project management. Agile management, strategic alignment, stakeholder management, mobile project management apps, and big data analytics are just a few trends that are helping to...
Make Room For Project Management in Organizational Change Management Projects
Business transformation is the buzz. It is happening on a small scale and on a mega-scale in businesses we interact with every day. Industry experts abound in process reengineering. So, lest we lose our heads and believe that fundamentals aren’t necessary to success,...