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North Central Region
NCWC Training Conference
Tools in NISH Toolbox
Martin Williams, Vice President
Regional Operations
August 18, 2009
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NISH As A 2010 Resource
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Trust and Collaboration
What is Trust? I could give it a dictionary
definition, but you know what it is when you
feel it. Trust happens when leaders are
transparent, candid, and keep their word. Its
that simple. Jack Welch
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Collaborating with Partners

• Products contracts with multiple producers
• Customers want more quality, design,
  innovation, choice, convenience, and service
• With few transactions
• And for less money, effort, time, and risk
• Visit with Nancy Heimbach, Deputy Director,
  DSCP

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Partnering Opportunities for 2010

• NIB Products and Services AbilityOne Brand
• Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business
• Small Business
• Source Small Disadvantaged Veterans Owned Small
  Business Conference.

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Prime Contractors

• General Dynamics
• The Boeing Company
• BAE Systems, Inc.
• SAIC
• Angela Gress McKinster
• Lockheed-Martin
• Source 2010 NIB Conference.

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NISH's Quality Management Team

• Quality processes to continuously review
  the quality of services and to generate
  improvements that will benefit customers
• Colonel Wilson, DSCP

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Unemployment in NC Region
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Engine of Social Change

• CRPs are the hidden engine of social
  change/ economic impact for people with
  disabilities
• Work together to sustain and expand
  successful programs

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Engine of Social Change

• Expand our success to large-scale
  footprints
• Document Destruction
• Call Centers
• Contract Closeout
• DPW

Source Harvard University, March 2009.
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NISH Challenge

• Grow more jobs for people with disabilities at
  15 percent per year
• Develop capacity for new lines of business
• We need to develop bench strength to support
  Strategic Business Development growth
• Risk Management
• We need to maintain all Procurement List
  (PL) projects

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NPA Challenges

• Sustain programs despite budget cuts
• Continue to provide work for more severely
  challenged workforce
• Adjust to new definition of significantly
  disabled
• Weather the storm