Throughout 2020, BRMi volunteers stepped up and reached out to make a difference through BRMi Cares activities. From virtual 5k runs to raise awareness to donations that assisted families in need, BRMi employees answered-the-call in difficult times. BRMi Cares’ leader Marie Han noted that “As a team, we did a lot more than I thought we [...]
This year, BRMi team members sponsored 27 children, helping to fill their little hearts with Christmas joy! As part of our commitment to philanthropy, BRMi Cares, our charitable program, recruited sponsors to “adopt an angel” through the Salvation Army Angel Tree Program. The Salvation Army, which sought to provide gifts for over 6,000 families in [...]
Chris Niedermayer BRMi's President, Mike Battle, has announced the retirement of Chris Niedermayer, the company's Senior Knowledge Officer. Mr. Battle says: "Chris has decided to fully retire and enjoy the fruits of his incredible career with his wife Jackie in scuba diving spots around the world. Chris has had an indelible impact on [...]
Many of us are fulfilling our mission functions remotely in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The initial chaos of the disruption is now fading as we settle into new operational patterns. This universal situation does not need to interfere with plans to start or continue former transformation efforts, particularly incremental improvement projects that may provide [...]
BRMi supports information governance (IG) strategic planning and implementation for the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). BRMi recently won the opportunity to apply its proven and effective program maturity approach to FERC’s implementation of identity, credential, and access management (ICAM) policies, organization, process, and technology improvements. This additional work reflects our passion for supporting our [...]
Building applications to run in containers, such as Docker, has become ubiquitous as organizations embrace DevSecOps. Containers, as the name implies, contain all the code, runtime libraries, and configuration hooks required to run a software application. Each new release is built into exactly one copy of a container that is easily promoted from development through [...]
COVID-19 has disrupted pre-pandemic processes for delivering services. Most organizations have adjusted to new approaches and identified previously unrecognized benefits for service providers and recipients. Now is the best time to continue streamlining these new service delivery processes and automate them using robotic process automation (RPA) tools to maximize universal value. BRMi’s expertise in process [...]
One constant in Presidential administration transitions are changes of leadership and/or direction in executive departments and independent agencies. Transition change is a fact of life in federal agencies even when the same administration remains in place. There will likely be new political appointees who have an agenda and a will to get things done quickly. [...]
It can be a challenge to comprehend how gradual or even dramatic changes in the business environment affect your delivery of services. These may include economic, regulatory, workforce, supply chain, and any number of other business environment fluctuations. Making timely decisions to effectively mitigate negative impacts is dependent upon data—data that is captured, analyzed, and [...]
A priority for BRMi during the global pandemic has been the evolving needs of employees and finding new ways to support each person’s mental and physical health. BRMi recently partnered with a local yoga studio, Flow Yoga Center, to provide a lunch time class using Zoom. BRMi employees and leadership (Dro, Mike, Anita, Helen Ann, [...]