Embrace Role-Model Proposal Best Practices
Three Takeaways from New APMP Proposal Industry Benchmark Report November is National Inspirational Role Models Month. Role models are passionate about creating value in their organizations. Proposal and bid teams need to embody role-model best practices to develop...
How to Motivate SMEs to Ensure Better Compliance with Deadlines?
Continuing our series, we now turn our attention toward the education of the SME team. Some of your SMEs will likely be familiar with RFPs and proposals, but others may not. Have you ever thought about whether each SME truly knows the process and the purpose of the...
Part Two: How to Motivate SMEs to Ensure Better Compliance with Deadlines?
In our initial article on this topic, we turned the question around – focusing on how we as Proposal professionals can first evaluate and manage our own efforts to better assist our SMEs. ‘Be a Servant First’ is the strategy where we ask how we can be of assistance...
Back to the Desktop – Real-Time Co-Authoring in Microsoft Word 2016
The emergence in recent years of the Web-based version of Microsoft Word has led some people to speculate that the desktop version of Word would one day soon become obsolete. But nothing could be further from the truth. In the 2016 release of Office,...