ASAE Members Gain OKR Insights from Chris Lyons

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In this article, DIS’s Chris Lyons examines how the objective and key results (OKR) management method can achieve organization-wide commitment, alignment of effort, and data-driven results that create outstanding outcomes from teams and faster achievement of strategic priorities.  The OKR approach moves goal setting away from measuring output of an organization’s own work and processes […]

Mark Forman’s Federal Tech Talk Interview Ranks #3 most popular podcast of the year

Mark Forman

Mark Forman joined John Gilroy, host of Federal Tech Talk, in July 2021 for an engaging discussion about what it takes to achieve federal information technology goals. By the end of the year, the interview ranked #3 among all Federal Tech Talk’s shows for the year. DIS Executive Vice President of Enterprise Optimization and Transformation […]

Mark Forman Breaks Down Zero Trust on Government Matters

Mark Foreman smiling at camera during an interview on Government Matters TV.

Mark Forman, DIS executive vice president, met with Mimi Geerges for the Security Matters segment of Government Matters to do a deep dive into zero trust and the process it will take to get government security to that goal. “Cyber security has always been the basis of understanding IT assets,” explains Forman. “All these legacy applications don’t really have good security built into them. It’s just not […]

20 Years Later: Mark Forman Reflects on his Experience as first Federal CIO

Mark Forman

DIS is thrilled to have the expertise of Mark Forman, Executive Vice President of Enterprise Optimization and Transformation, on our executive leadership team. In a recent article Mark wrote for FCW, he reflects on 20 years of experience in the federal IT space. He provides insight into creating a citizen-centered government by engaging, collaborating, and making fact-based decisions.  “Twenty years ago today, I began work […]

Mark Forman Talks JEDI Contract Cancellation and the Future of DoD’s Cloud Strategy

Mark Forman interview with Emily Murphy

With the Department of Defense (DoD) Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) cloud contract cancelled, the conversation has turned to how DoD can restructure to build an optimal enterprise cloud capability with a different model. Mark Forman, executive vice president of DIS, demonstrated his extensive expertise in enterprise optimization and government IT in a recent conversation with […]