Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC)
IMS is positioned to provide full support to any company faced with the challenges of relocation, expansion, or local representation in conjunction with the mandates of the Base Realignment and Closure Commission.Complete our simple Needs Assessment Survey* and we'll help you to establish important relationships with the Maryland companies you need for support of a seamless migration. This Survey is designed to help companies committed to CECOM contracts. We will shrink your time to market by working with you to develop relationships with the appropriate Maryland service providers.
Your survey responses are totally confidential. After we receive the results, an IMS partner will respond directly to discuss your specific needs. At that point, if you want to make contact and work directly with a service provider in Maryland we will be happy to make the connection for you and support the relationship until you are satisfied with the results.
(*In order to take this survey and submit the results successfully you need the latest version of Adobe Reader.)
Top 10 Reasons to Strategically Plan for BRAC
10. Set specific objectives for sustaining your business in Maryland. Good management requires setting specific objectives, tracking, and following up. Many existing businesses manage without a plan. How do they commit to what's supposed to happen or measure results?
In truth, you're really taking a short cut if planning is in your head - and good for you if you can do it - but as we acknowledge that BRAC will impact how our business grows, we want to organize, plan, and communicate priorities to focus our team through the change process. Be strategic. Gather information that’s critical and develop a plan; don't just wing it.
9. Share your strategy, priorities and specific action points with your senior staff, partners and significant personnel. Our business life goes by so quickly: it’s a sprint just answering phone calls, voice messages, e-mails, RFQs, RFPs, putting out fires. Wow. Where are my program managers? Don't the other people in your business life need to know what's supposed to be happening? Don't you want them to know? What information do you need to share?
8. Dealing with displacement. Displacement is by far the most crucial, practical business concept you've never heard of. It goes like this: "Whatever you do do, there is something else that you don't do." Displacement lives at the heart of all business strategy, yet most people have never heard of it. So, what do you do?
7. Decide whether or not to rent new space. Rent is a new obligation. Do your growth prospects and contract requirements justify this? What will it cost, where will you locate? Shouldn't you have that information?
6. Hire new people. This is another new obligation. How will new people help your business grow and prosper? What exactly are they supposed to be doing? Are they available in Maryland?
5. Decide whether you need new assets, how many, and whether to buy or lease them. How long will these important purchases last? Use your plan to help decide what's going to happen in the long term. This plan will provide important input to the classic decision: make vs. buy.
4. Share and explain business objectives with your management team, employees and new hires. Make selected portions of your plan part of your relocation and new employee training.
3. Develop new business alliances in Maryland. Set targets for new alliances, and how you will find and communicate with them. Who can help you in the new location? Are they trusted? Do they know your industry and speak your technical language? We do!
2. Deal with professionals. Share selected highlights of your plan with your attorneys and accountants, and, for significant objective response, qualified management and program consultants.
1. Grow your business in Maryland. Ensure you have sustainability with your client base and think of BRAC as an opportunity for growth and expansion.
Is your head whirling yet?In truth, you're really taking a short cut if planning is in your head - and good for you if you can do it - but as we acknowledge that BRAC will impact how our business grows, we want to organize, plan, and communicate priorities to focus our team through the change process. Be strategic. Gather information that’s critical and develop a plan; don't just wing it.
9. Share your strategy, priorities and specific action points with your senior staff, partners and significant personnel. Our business life goes by so quickly: it’s a sprint just answering phone calls, voice messages, e-mails, RFQs, RFPs, putting out fires. Wow. Where are my program managers? Don't the other people in your business life need to know what's supposed to be happening? Don't you want them to know? What information do you need to share?
8. Dealing with displacement. Displacement is by far the most crucial, practical business concept you've never heard of. It goes like this: "Whatever you do do, there is something else that you don't do." Displacement lives at the heart of all business strategy, yet most people have never heard of it. So, what do you do?
7. Decide whether or not to rent new space. Rent is a new obligation. Do your growth prospects and contract requirements justify this? What will it cost, where will you locate? Shouldn't you have that information?
6. Hire new people. This is another new obligation. How will new people help your business grow and prosper? What exactly are they supposed to be doing? Are they available in Maryland?
5. Decide whether you need new assets, how many, and whether to buy or lease them. How long will these important purchases last? Use your plan to help decide what's going to happen in the long term. This plan will provide important input to the classic decision: make vs. buy.
4. Share and explain business objectives with your management team, employees and new hires. Make selected portions of your plan part of your relocation and new employee training.
3. Develop new business alliances in Maryland. Set targets for new alliances, and how you will find and communicate with them. Who can help you in the new location? Are they trusted? Do they know your industry and speak your technical language? We do!
2. Deal with professionals. Share selected highlights of your plan with your attorneys and accountants, and, for significant objective response, qualified management and program consultants.
1. Grow your business in Maryland. Ensure you have sustainability with your client base and think of BRAC as an opportunity for growth and expansion.
We know that planning like this can be daunting! So, from one business to another - how would it feel to have a partner who will work with and guide you through the hurdles? We're positioned in Maryland to do just that.
Contact us at 410.494.4495 ext 201 or through the form at Contact Us here on our website.
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