GS-10F-0084J
Management Worlds
MOBIS
Under Contract # GS-10F-0084J Management Worlds offers:
SIN 874-1: CONSULTING
SERVICES
SIN 874-2:
FACILITATION SERVICES
SIN 874-3: SURVEY
SERVICES
SIN 874-4: TRAINING
SERVICES AND RATES
SIN 874-7: PROGRAM
INTEGRATION AND PROJECT MANAGEMENT SERVICES
SIN 874-1: CONSULTING SERVICES
In
today s rapidly changing environment, all government organizations are facing
complex issues that affect their management approaches. Management Worlds can provide expert advice,
assistance, and guidance in management integration services, and solve an array
of complex management problems through our unique interventions. These services may include management and
leadership studies, strategic planning, analysis and development of new
approaches for process and productivity improvements. Implementation of recommendations may involve
performance improvement technologies, educational design using simulation
technology, web-based knowledge management systems or paper systems, whichever
is most appropriate and cost effective.
Management
Worlds has a proven track record in helping organizations manage by projects,
define performance problems, identify root causes, determine solutions, and
implement solutions that get results.
Our performance technologies, consulting and skilled facilitation are
used to provide expert analysis and provide sound recommendations to
organizations. We also provide timely
interventions to project start-up teams by providing appropriate strategies
that can help make their project endeavor more cost effective.
Project
Management Performance Support
Management
Worlds' Performance Support offerings encompass the customized design,
development, implementation and evaluation of products and services for the
purpose of increasing learning and performance for individuals in a program or
project team setting. Our Performance
Support approach is a process that links learning with direct application. There are three broad stages in our
Performance Support strategy diagnosis, implementation, and evaluation. All stages of Performance Support are closely
integrated and collaboration with the project manager and team is essential.
Management Worlds
recognizes that Project Managers benefit from credible metrics about their
performance. We therefore provide
assessment diagnostics to measure performance in an area and then provide
prescriptive strategies to enhance that performance. In assessing performance we use diagnostic
instruments ranging from simple, low-cost yet high-value methods thru more
robust and expensive tools. We then
consult with clients to interpret results and build developmental strategies.
These baseline assessments, along with periodic re-assessments, give trend
metrics that document the effects of our performance strategies.
Management
Worlds assessment tools cover the following performance areas: organizational,
teams, individual focused assessments, and are designed to increase the utility
of survey data, reduce user time to complete, and provide for electronic
database trend analysis and profiles. We have available organization, team
performance, individual leadership, coaching skills and interpersonal
competencies, organizational characteristics and employee attitudes.
Project
Managers can be in charge of all selections, including what service, by whom it
is administered and when it is given. The content assessment scores are under
the sole control of the project customer. These assessments are available for
use in enhancing project performance.
Project
Leadership Assessment and Development
measures the effectiveness of a leader's behaviors, as (anonymously) observed
by project associates. Scores and conclusions are under the control of the
person assessed.
Project
Culture and Climate Assessment and Development measures the efficiency of a project organization's
culture, as (anonymously) observed by members of the organization. Or, it
measures the efficiency of behaviors across an interface between organizations,
as (anonymously) observed by members of the organizations.
Project
Teamwork, Teammate Assessment and Development
surveys team members quickly and anonymously for strengths and opportunities
for improvement within the project. Development of teamwork is guided by the
results of the survey.
Project
Knowledge Assessment And Learning is a
web-based application designed to measure the content of project management
knowledge that project people possess and need to have on the job. This
application has both a learning mode with private scoring and an assessment mode with scores available to authorized people.
This supports a specific definition of project knowledge, individual learning
and group assessment. Organizations and Project Managers may consider putting
their project's team members through this assessment to develop a baseline of
knowledge.
Executive
Coaching in person, by phone
or on-line to help senior managers identify critical success factors, identify,
strengths and weaknesses in the organization or in themselves and develop
action plans.
Project Life Cycle Support
When
project teams require assistance, another resource is our "Project Life
Cycle Support". For teams preparing
for a project review, seeking help with programmatic documents,
or determining the next critical step in their team development, Management
Worlds' services increase the project team's probability of success by
delivering the right support at the right time.
Management
Worlds can provide expertise throughout a project's life cycle, from project
initiation through implementation and evaluation. Support ranges from
consultations on team performance to tailored instruction and project
management approaches. Specific developmental activities can be provided on
topics such as the construction of work breakdown structures, planning and
scheduling, risk management, requirements definition, systems engineering,
earned value management, and review preparation.
Project
Management Development Process
Knowing the critical
behaviors that distinguish highly effective project leaders from less effective
performers is the cornerstone of staffing and of determining developmental priorities. Management Worlds coaching and facilitation
support can help you identify these success behaviors for your core project
jobs. Management Worlds can help devise a road map of competencies required to
attain the necessary project management professional development goals. The
process provides a learning strategy to develop project managers -- a strategy
that integrates coursework with knowledge sharing, performance support
activities, and workplace experiences.
Management
knowledge, as opposed to technical or scientific knowledge, is much more tacit
than explicit. Management knowledge can be problematic because it is highly
contextual and complex and difficult to render into generically valid forms.
Management Worlds can help your organization embody knowledge, connect it,
articulate it and share it. We have a unique approach to storytelling and sharing,
case studies, and open forums. We can
help you build and support project manager communities of practice by capturing
and disseminating good practices from your best project management performers.
Management Worlds has
researched project management best practices for over 20 years. Using that knowledge, Management Worlds created and developed
templates for web-based interactive case studies and story-based on-line
learning and printed materials. We help clients develop knowledge
sharing strategies, processes and support that become
the foundation for learning solutions that help solve complex project
management problems. Our assumption is that much of the knowledge about making
projects successful already exists in your organization and by many of your top
performers. These highly treasured, experienced and skilled people stand to
offer high value to all your projects. Establishing the right systems and
processes that aid in capturing and managing these reusable assets is critical
to achieving more project successes.
With
our extensive range of content specialists, Management Worlds and our digital
division, 16by9studios, help provide knowledge and learning solutions through a
combination of means, including web-enabled products and performance support
tools, mobile learning, innovative workshops, and knowledge sharing
resources. Our knowledge solutions are
delivered via desktop, laptop, handheld, or in the classroom. We also can meet a client s requirements for
application development, implementation
and hosting, information architecture, digital animation, film and video,
interactive multimedia, management, and other services related to on-line,
wireless, and broadband applications.16by9 s team of creative directors,
writers, content designers, information architects and programmers provide user
experiences from concept and design to implementation and delivery.
Web Capabilities
Management Worlds has
experience providing on-line performance enhancement to large government
agencies and private industry. We offer
innovative ways of approaching traditional business challenges and we have the
skills and expertise to extend these unique solutions to the program and
project management community. Our
performance enhancement solutions have included everything from courses and
user research to interactive case studies and project management and leadership
tools all on-line. Below is a sample of
some of the solutions we can provide:
On-line Discussion Boards and Chat Sessions to extend the program and project management community to
the on-line environment and create opportunities for knowledge sharing and
idea centers. This provides the
opportunity to discuss project challenges and solutions in an open forum with
fellow program and project managers.
Create events around special subject matter experts and topics where
participants can submit queries, ask advice, and discuss unique challenges they
face in their day-to-day duties.
Customized On-line Courses Performed in collaboration with team experts, Management
Worlds can design an e-learning web course outlining and teaching some of the
fundamental tenets of project management. By drawing on some of the greatest
challenges faced by management teams, case-based e-learning courses include a
series of interactive exercises, examples, and lessons learned that are
intended to teach management skills necessary for ensuring success.
Mini Leadership Tools to
create mini-tools that allow project managers to explore, learn about, and
implement popular leadership theories and techniques. Each tool will not only teach effective
leadership, but also introduce ideas that project managers can apply to their
projects, no matter how large or small.
In addition to the core responsibilities of a project manager, several
mini-tools focus on the soft skills or people skills necessary to become an
effective project manager. Tools often are delivered in sets of 5-6 by theme
and accompanied by worksheets that engage the user.
Interactive Case Studies that
aim to expose practitioners to real-life, relevant and intellectually engaging
situations, thus enabling them to optimize operations, increase productivity,
and hone their leadership skills through an efficient transfer of best/good
practice knowledge. All case studies are
based on actual projects.
Project Team Profiles.
Management Worlds has
designed, developed, distributed, processed and created profiles, assessment
instruments and surveys to support the achievement of program and project
objectives for teams within the organization.
Profiles are available to promote connectivity with the public and to
promote self-awareness within the organization.
On-line Performance Enhancement Tools and Assessment To better assess the performance support needs of individual
projects and their managers, Management Worlds utilizes very robust assessment
tools that link performance support and knowledge capture. Utilizing the collected information drives
team alignment, gains agreement about important issues, and assures discipline
for executing an action plan tied to accountability. Dynamic models help teams find key result
areas, make comparisons between senior officials (program manager) and a team's
responses (project manager, team, vendors, suppliers, etc), as well as compare,
map and validate the findings to accountable actions.
Server Management and Maintenance for any tools or a subsidiary web site that includes
updating and refreshing it with new content, fixing bugs, and archiving
documents. Maintenance includes ensuring
that all solutions adhere to our customer s IT standards and regulations.
SIN 874-2: FACILITATION SERVICES
Management Worlds
provides facilitation and related decision support services to agencies engaged
in collaboration efforts, working groups, or integrated product, process or
self-directed teams. Management Worlds consultants have extensive experience
in bringing together diverse teams and groups with common and divergent
interests and mind models that may require a neutral party to assist them in:
the use of problem solving techniques; resolving disagreements and divergent
views; defining and redefining an agenda; convening and leading large and small
group briefings and discussions; providing a draft for the permanent record;
recording discussion content; focusing decision-making; debriefing; overall
planning.
Management Worlds
facilitation services help organizations manage team processes and outcomes to
improve teamwork with collaborative problem solving. We guide intact project teams through
decision-making, problem solving and planning techniques, and lead large and
small project groups through briefings and discussions. Our performance consultants have excellent
interpersonal and communication skills that enable them to facilitate diverse
groups in both industry and government. In addition to the related project
assignments presented below, Management Worlds workshops that include our
simulation technology teach participants these competencies. Also, in
developing, customizing, or modifying our simulations, we facilitate forums in
user and senior management collaboration sessions to gain valuable input into
how to change the existing models to more closely parallel the organization or
environment, processes. and procedures.
Project Team Development
Interventions
Project
managers and team members learn to produce high performance teams in a workshop
tailored to address specific project challenges. The workshop surveys a
project's current team performance, and then presents intervention strategies
for creating and sustaining a more effective teaming environment.
Creating and Building Productive Teams. Whether co-located or teaming remotely, project staff must
meet the challenges of building trust, empowering others, providing feedback,
and managing conflicts. Management Worlds consultants work with project
managers and team members to apply the key attributes of high performance teams
and to understand how they are re-enforced and challenged by organizational
strategy, business management decisions, and work environment. Coaching and
workshops also help teams to adapt quickly to dynamic situations.
Individual & Team Coaching can
help project leaders drive project performance to higher levels. Management
Worlds coaching support give these individuals and your organization every
opportunity to succeed through our individualized, in-depth coaching programs.
Team and leadership performance drive your success. Don t leave these critical
developmental activities to chance. Our coaching help can raise the performance
of teams and leaders to new levels of excellence through our professionally
facilitated programs.
Effective project planning enables
practitioners to reduce the scope and quantity of problems during
implementation. Management Worlds delivers planning and scheduling support to
project teams when they need it and where they need it, by working on-site at
Center locations.
In planning sessions, Management Worlds
coaches prepare project managers and their teams to deliver the right technical
solution on time and on budget. Coaches assist teams to develop concepts,
strategic plans, business cases, requirements, and Work Breakdown Structures,
as well as to address any other planning challenges.
Technical
Project Management and Systems Engineering
We recognize that schedule and budget are merely important
constraints within which you must deliver a technical solution. Our
methodology is designed to focus on all three critical aspects; technical,
schedule, and budget to ensure that you "deliver the right solution, at
the right time, for the right cost." Most methodologies focus solely on
the schedule and budget aspects of project management and ignore the technical
aspects of managing a project. However, "it does no good to deliver
the wrong thing on time or under budget." Success requires that you
deliver a technical solution that meets the customer needs within the
constraints of time and budget. Managing technical projects requires a
different and unique set of skills a set of skills that Management Worlds can
provide through our just-in-time facilitated coaching and consulting services.
Whether a team requires help with project planning, risk management, or project
tools, Management Worlds consultants help teams master the technical issues,
tools, and skills of effective project management -- from analyzing tough
issues through meeting complex technical challenges during any phase of a
project's life cycle.
Proposal Management provides
world-class consulting, mentoring, training, and assessment services to
organizations and project teams involved in Technical Project Management (or
Systems Engineering) for the development of competitive proposals.
Management
Worlds can also find the right project Expert Practitioner who has deep
experience in applying specific knowledge and technology to your business
environment and help increase productivity and probability of project success.
Subject
Matter Experts
Management
Worlds can locate the appropriate Subject Matter Expert within an organization
who has the deep theoretical and practical knowledge who can also coach to
increase productivity and probability of success. This is particularly true
when you need a member of your team with the mastery of knowledge that brings
creative synergy to handle a difficult situation. The subject matter experts
assist project people to do the project's work. They do not deliver work
product, and they do not displace any project people or resources.
SIN 874-3: SURVEY SERVICES
Management Worlds
provides expert consultation, assistance and deliverables associated with all
aspects of surveying within the context of a Government Organization.
Management Worlds has significant experience in designing, developing,
tailoring and administering surveys and assessments and analyzing their
results. We have provided services to
collect and assess the performance of individuals and organizations using
various types to surveys. Our surveys range from simple questionnaires to more
complex robust feedback instruments and techniques. Our expertise includes, but
are not limited to, the following areas of survey services: planning survey
design; defining and refining the agenda; administering surveys using various
types of data collection methods; sampling; survey development; database
administration; analysis of quantitative and qualitative survey data; pre-test
or pilot-test surveying; survey reliability and validity assessment. Our
reports include: description and summary of results with associated graphs,
charts and tables; description of data collection and survey administration
methods; discussion of sample characteristics and representativeness
of data; discussion of recommendations and follow-up actions.
SIN 874-4: TRAINING SERVICES AND RATES
Management
Worlds provides our project management simulations to Fortune 100 Companies and
the Federal Government. In the Management Worlds core courses, project
practitioners learn about the fundamentals and the complexities of project and
program management. Additional courses focus on technical project competencies,
business project management, program control, Work Breakdown Structure, cost
estimating, requirements, proposal writing and teaming.
This course provides
application of project management techniques for personnel managing work at the
project level. Participants learn about project management through lectures,
discussion and practice. Participants work together in teams on a project
management simulation and learn to apply project management principles as they
develop a productive team.
Major Topics and
Course Highlights: Project Planning Process; Project Control; Team Process;
Refining Objectives & Priorities; Resources Planning; Personality Types;
Action Planning; Team Development; Decision Making; Lessons Learned; Baseline Management;
Risk Management; Managing Complex Projects; Change Management
Stakeholder
Management; Communications; Leadership; Team Assessments.
Format: Computer
simulation, lecture, discussion, hands-on, practical exercises and case
studies.
Length: 4-5 days
Minimum number of
participants: 15
Maximum number of
participants: 30
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Number of Days |
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4 - 5 days |
$16,958 |
*Yearly fees refer to
Contract Years and do not include travel and hardware expenditures.
This hands-on,
practical workshop covers the big picture of managing complex programs and
projects by taking an enterprise-wide view of project management. The course
theme is balancing competing priorities for business success, customer satisfaction
and workforce management. Participants take over and manage a multi-project
management simulation.
Major Topics and
Course Highlights: Program/Complex Project Management; Enterprise-Wide Project
Management; Enterprise-Wide Systems Perspective; Thinking Strategically;
Enterprise Metrics; Capacity Planning; Cross Project-Function Team Development;
Balancing Business Success; Customer Satisfaction and Workforce Management;
Portfolio Project Management; Leadership and Influence; Organizational Risks/Constraints;
Aggregate Planning; Strategic Implementation; Aligning Priorities With
Organizational Strategy; Best and Emerging Practices.
Format: Lectures,
discussion, computer simulation, hands-on, practical group exercises, case
studies, individual and team assessments.
Length: 5 days
Minimum number of
participants: 15
Maximum number of
participants: 30
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Number of Days |
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5 days |
$17,506 |
*Yearly fees refer to
Contract Years and do not include travel and hardware expenditures.
This two or three-day
workshop provides a ten step process to plan and control projects. The workshop
covers the fundamentals of project management tools and techniques.
Major Topics and
Course Highlights: Project Management; Project Definition; Work Breakdown
Structure; Generate Tasks; Roles and Responsibilities; Task Sequencing
Resource Scheduling;
Schedules; Project Budget; Risk Management; Monitor and Control; Post-Project
Review; Critical Path Method; Gantt Charts; Networks; Resource Allocation
Charts; Responsibility Matrix; Baseline Management.
Format: Lectures,
discussion, small and large group exercises, case studies.
Length: 2-3 days
Minimum number of
participants: 20
Maximum number of
participants: 30
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Number of Days |
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3 days |
$9,875 |
This five-day
workshop integrates strategic planning and implementation along with building a
highly productive cross-functional team. With the use of a computer simulation,
teams composed of five participants manage an organization for 2-3 years over
the five days.
Major Topics and
Course Highlights: SWOT Analysis; Integrated Business Planning
Strategic Plans;
Strategic Control; Strategic Objectives; Strategic Implementation
Projects for Change;
Complex Trade-offs; Opportunity Management; Tactical Plans
Management
Information; Decision Making; Team Development; Risk Management
Improvement
Projects.
Format: Lectures,
discussion, small and large group exercises, computer simulation, assessment
instruments.
Length: 5 days
Minimum number of
participants: 15
Maximum number of
participants: 30
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Number of Days |
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5 days |
$16,608 |
Operations
Management Computer Simulation
This
five-day workshop integrates planning, executing and teamwork in a highly
interactive and experiential course format. Teams of five participants gain
hands-on experience by managing a back office operation for 6-8 simulated
months in the five days.
Major Topics and
Course Highlights: Production Management; Capacity Planning
Volume Forecasting;
Backlog Management; Customer Satisfaction; Contingency Planning; Quality and
Error Rates; Team Development; Decisions/Trade-offs
Constraint
Management; Productivity; Timeliness; Transaction Costs; Unit Costs.
Employee
Satisfaction; Turn Around Time; Performance
Management.
Format: Lectures, discussion,
group exercises, assessment instruments, computer simulation, group discussion,
action and reflection.
Length: 5 days
Minimum number of
participants: 15
Maximum number of
participants: 30
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Number of Days |
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5 days |
$16,608 |
Overview
In
today s rapid changing environment, all government organizations are facing
complex issues that affect their management approaches. Management Worlds provides expert advice, assistance,
guidance in customizing project management integration services and our unique
approaches to solving complex project management problems. This service may include management and
leadership studies, strategy planning, analyses and development of new
approaches for process and productivity improvements. Implementation of recommended approaches may
involve performance improvement technologies, educational design using
simulation technology, web-based knowledge management systems; whichever is
most appropriate and cost effective.
Management
Worlds has a proven track record helping organizations to manage-by-project,
define performance problems, identify root causes, then determine and implement
result-oriented solutions. Our
performance technologies, consulting and skilled facilitation provide expert
analysis and sound recommendations to organizations and project start-up teams
that can help their entity become more cost effective, often leading to timely
interventions. Management Worlds is also
a Registered Education Provider of the Project Management Institute (PMI). Several of our consultants have held officer
positions within PMI, and we have also been involved with their Benchmarking
Studies.
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Labor Category |
April 15, 2004 |
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Director/Producer |
$174.56 |
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Education Design Director |
$130.92 |
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Creative Director |
$137.16 |
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Technical Director |
$124.69 |
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Graphic Designer |
$87.28 |
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Conference/Workshop Planner |
$62.34 |
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Secretary/Office |
$49.88 |
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Senior Partner Consultant |
$187.03 |
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Senior Consultant |
$162.09 |
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Consultant |
$137.16 |
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Senior Facilitator |
$162.09 |
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Coordinator |
$62.34 |
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Senior/Simulation Designer/Programmer |
$168.33 |
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Simulation/Technical Designer/Programmer |
$112.22 |
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Project Manager |
$149.63 |
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Information Architect |
$124.69 |
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Senior Survey Analyst |
$87.28 |
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Survey Analyst |
$62.34 |
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Database Analyst |
$62.34 |
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Network Producer |
$99.75 |
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Researcher |
$87.28 |
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Writer |
$56.11 |
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Editor |
$44.89 |
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Associate Producer |
$112.22 |
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Production Crew Member |
$99.75 |
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Production |
$93.52 |
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Post Production Editor |
$93.52 |
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Production Illustrator |
$93.52 |
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Photographer |
$149.63 |
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Management Worlds Clients + Users
AT&T, Audubon,
Boeing, Caterpillar, CIBC, Citicorp, EPA, General Electric, General Motors,
Lockheed-Martin, Merck, NASA, National Parks Service, Nokia, PBS, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Procter & Gamble, The U.S.
Navy, United Nations, United Technologies, Universal Pictures, University of
Maryland, Warner Brothers, The World Bank, World Resources Institute and many
others.
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