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Record Nr.

UNINA9910461782703321

Autore

Frey Robert S.

Titolo

Successful Proposal Strategies for Small Businesses : Using Knowledge Management to Win Government, Private-Sector, and International Contacts / / Robert S. Frey

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boston : , : Artech House, , 2012

[Piscataqay, New Jersey] : , : IEEE Xplore, , [2012]

ISBN

1-60807-475-7

Edizione

[6th ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (723 p.)

Collana

Artech House technology management and professional development series

Disciplina

658.804

Soggetti

Proposal writing for grants - United States

Small business - United States - Finance

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Successful Proposal Strategies for Small Businesses Using Knowledge Management to Win Government, Private-Sector, and International Contracts-Sixth Edition; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1 Competitive proposals and small business; 1.1 Overview; 1.2 From set-asides to full-and-open competition; 1.3 Small business constraints; 1.4 Maximizing small business strengths; 1.5 SBIR and STTR programs; 1.6 Organizing your company to acquire new business; 1.7 Effective strategic and mission planning; 1.8 Converting knowledge into proposal success.

1.8.1 KM benefits proposal development1.8.2 Internal and external clients: looking at clients in a whole new way; Endnotes; Chapter 2 Strategic partnering and subcontracting opportunities; 2.1 Subcontracting opportunities and pathways to success; 2.2 Critical success factors; 2.3 Specific strategies for achieving subcontracts; 2.4 Becoming part of a governmentwide acquisition contract (GWAC) team; 2.5 How mentor-protégé programs can help your business; Endnotes; Chapter 3 Marketing to and with your clients; 3.1 More than just selling; 3.2 Transactions are personal--people buy from people.

3.3 Listen to your client3.4 Infuse marketing intelligence into your



proposal; 3.5 Intelligence gathering and analysis techniques; 3.6 Call plans; 3.7 Maintain management visibility on your contracts; 3.8 Project managers as client managers; 3.9 Commercial off-the-shelf acquisition; 3.10 Pursuing firm-fixed-price and invitation-for-bid opportunities; 3.11 Using the request for information and the request for comment as valuable marketing tools; 3.12 Contractor prequalification statements; 3.13 Ethics in marketing and business development.

3.14 Advertising, trade shows, and high-impact public relationsEndnotes; Chapter 4 Requests for proposals; 4.1 Overview; 4.2 Part I--the schedule; 4.3 Part II--contract clauses; 4.4 Part III--list of documents, exhibits, and other attachments; 4.5 Part IV--representations and certifications; 4.6 The importance of Section L (instructions to offerors); 4.7 Section M (evaluation criteria): toward maximizing your score; 4.8 Greatest or best-value approach; 4.9 Emphasis on performance-based acquisition (PBA); 4.10 Influencing the content of an RFP--legitimately.

4.11 Other types of solicitation documentsEndnotes; Chapter 5 Private-sector solicitation requests; 5.1 Grant proposals--winning what you bid; 5.1.1 Letters of inquiry; 5.1.2 Balancing the technical and the nontechnical; 5.1.3 Standard grant proposal components; 5.2 Nongovernmental organizations (NGOs); Chapter 6 The federal acquisition process: emerging directions; 6.1 Major trends going forward; 6.2 Rapid order task response; 6.3 Federal procurement process overview; 6.4 Statutory and regulatory requirements for competition; 6.5 The source selection process; 6.6 Full-and-open competition.

Sommario/riassunto

Here's your one-stop-shop for winning new business! The new, Sixth Edition of this perennial bestseller updates and expands all previous editions, making this volume the most exhaustive and definitive proposal strategy resource. Directly applicable for businesses of all sizes, Successful Proposal Strategies provides extensive and important context, field-proven approaches, and in-depth techniques for business success with the Federal Government, the largest buyer of services and products in the world. This popular book and its companion CD-ROM are highly accessible, self-contained desktop refe.



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910783315303321

Autore

Jonas Raymond <1954->

Titolo

The tragic tale of Claire Ferchaud and the Great War [[electronic resource] /] / Raymond Jonas

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2005

ISBN

1-282-76312-1

9786612763120

0-520-93828-3

1-59734-947-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (232 p.)

Disciplina

282/.092

B

Soggetti

World War, 1914-1918 - Religious aspects - Catholic Church

Sacred Heart, Devotion to - France - History of doctrines - 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The Great War in the European imagination -- Miracle or "miracle?" -- Carnal vision and saintly ambition -- Spiritual patronage and a mission to save France -- Silent eruptions : Claire and her public -- In the footsteps of Joan -- A kind of apotheosis : Claire goes to Paris -- Claire's story goes public : the Sacred Heart and the Union Sacrée -- Consecration by proxy -- The unraveling -- The unmaking of a saint -- Prologue as epilogue : the story of Jonas.

Sommario/riassunto

This is the moving and improbable story of Claire Ferchaud, a young French shepherdess who had visions of Jesus and gained national fame as a modern-day Joan of Arc at the height of World War I. Claire experienced her first vision after a childhood trauma in which her mother locked her in a closet to break her stubborn willfulness. She developed her visionary gifts with the aid of spiritual directors and, by the age of twenty, she had come to believe that Jesus wanted France consecrated to the Sacred Heart. Claire believed that if France undertook this devotion, symbolized by adding the image of the Sacred Heart to the French flag, it would enjoy rapid victory in the war. From



her modest origins to her spectacular ascent, Claire's life and times are deftly related with literary verve and insight in a book that gives a rare view of the French countryside during the Great War.