Helpful Strategies for Controlling Change to Your Projects
By Jen Emswiler | Harkcon’s Program Control Analyst How do you control changes to your projects? When there are approved changes within the scope of your project, what are you doing to ensure that these changes are controlled? Rory Burke states, “The project manager must be able to develop a fully integrated information and control system to plan, instruct, monitor and control large amounts of data, quickly and accurately to facilitate the problem-solving and decision-making
How to Do Invoicing the Right Way
By Ali Waterman | Harkcon’s Financial Specialist Invoicing can be a tedious process for any company, but there are ways to simplify the process and breeze through it every month. Here are some tips and tricks I use to manage the invoices for Harkcon. Create an invoice template that can be used across multiple contracts. It will save time when creating new contract invoicing and helps standardize all the invoices. At Harkcon, I have two templates; one for Firm Fixed Price cont
Quick Guide: 8(a) Business Development Program
By Kristin Ghanem | Harkcon’s Contract Management Specialist Government contracts may be set-aside for small businesses who meet the following certification and socio-economic category requirements: 8(a) Business Development HubZone Program Woman Owned Small Business (WOSB) Program Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) Program In the next series of posts, we are going to spend some time discussing the basic requirements of each program and the steps you need
Making your Marketing Plan Work for You
By Marty Jenkins | Harkcon’s Communications Specialist Something totally unforeseen has happened and my marketing plan has stalled! Should I throw out my plan and try again next year? Maybe I will just sweep it under the rug because…eh, I wasn’t that serious about it anyway. After all, it was more of a suggestion! What is the real benefit of following it? It has already started to crumble and fall apart, right? WRONG! It is in moments like these that you need to firmly immers