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In an effort to provide the highest level of service to both clients and employees, BCforward recently joined the American Staffing Association (ASA), which promotes legal, ethical and professional practices for the staffing industry. As an ASA member, BCforward’s past, current and future clients can be assured that BCforward adheres to best practices in the staffing industry and is well-informed on subjects including employment law, industry information and education, and standards of conduct. In fact, ASA members are the largest community of staffing professionals, industry experts and business...


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This afternoon, BCforward representatives attended the annual Indiana Business Opportunity Fair presented by the Indiana Minority Supplier Development Council (IMSDC) at the JW Marriott downtown Indianapolis. Named the largest minority-owned business in Indiana in 2010, BCforward hosted a booth and raffled off a Kindle Fire. The fair is the largest event of its kind in Indiana and brings together majority corporations and minority businesses. This year, the event included more than 100 exhibit booths, educational seminars, MBE matchmaking and networking opportunities. BCforward, currently...


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Our own Anika M. Calloway, Esq. has been named to the 2012 Indianapolis Business Journal Forty Under 40. Anika has served as General Counsel at BCforward since mid-2011. She is an alumna of Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia and Tulane University School of Law. Ms. Calloway was admitted to practice law in the State of Indiana in 2002 and has worked in the technology and legal industries since 1997. Prior to joining BCforward, she was a Staff Attorney at Simon Property Group, L.P. and has served as an Attorney at Barnes & Thornburg LLP and as a Judicial Law Clerk to the Honorable Patricia...


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The definition of Agile is: “quick and well-coordinated in movement.” Your company is launching a new project and your boss asks you if you think the new project would be a good candidate to work as an Agile project. Your company is rather traditional, branching out occasionally to try new things, but you are not sure if this project is appropriate for an Agile approach. You definitely want the project to be successful. What do you need to consider when making a decision of this type for your new project? Here are some major factors to look at when considering an agile project approach. Is...


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Managing Projects for over 20 years has taught me a few things about what attributes a good project manager must possess. A good part of my role today is to find and place contract project managers. Great PMs have many traits and you can read tons of articles on what attributes comprise a good PM. After reading and reflecting on several of these article and then looking back over my years of project delivery and hiring PMs, I have compiled these 5 attributes I look for in a great contract project manager: PM Technical Knowledge: You must be able to demonstrate that you know a little about...


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2011 was a banner year for BCforward. We formed new partnerships, won exciting contracts, gave back to the community and put hundreds to work. We got started in January with the creation of Stafforward, a wholly owned subsidiary that serves the existing BCforward presence in the administrative, accounting, clerical, warehousing, healthcare, manufacturing and industrial fields by providing staffing, outsourcing, managed service programs and payroll services. Stafforward was created in order to respond to the growing customer demand for talent acquisition in these fields. In April, our President...


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On October 6th, 2011 several BCforward employees participated in the Lilly Day of Service. Lilly’s Global Day of Service in Indianapolis represents powerful community collaboration. It brings together 30 organizations, private companies and government agencies working together to improve our city. This partnership began in 2008 when Lilly engaged more than 7,500 volunteers in service. Through work at over 50 projects throughout Indianapolis, over 30,000 hours of service was completed in just one day. The results from this day were amazing with almost 2,000 trees planted, 18 school grounds...


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BCforward employees recently participated in the Indiana Sports Corporation's Corporate Challenge. The overall results for the challenge have not been posted yet, but BCforward finished 9th out of 37 teams in Division 1 for the competitive events. One of the highlights was BCforward taking first in Division 1 for the cycling time trial with Tim Haseley being the top overall male competitor. Each event participated in generated points for our team. BCforward finished with a total of 1626 points. Our top four individual point earners were: Brandon Emkes- 274 points Lisa Meyer- 179 points Marissa...


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Over the past year, our recruiting demands have doubled and in turn our team size has nearly doubled as well. As BCforward continues to grow, opportunities have become available for our valued employees to take on more responsibility. We have always looked internally first for people to assume more responsibility. Christina Nash has accepted a new role as Director of Recruiting. In this new role Christina will be responsible for coordinating all recruiting efforts within BCforward. In addition, Christina will work to streamline and gain efficiencies for our recruiting processes, including the alignment...


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BCforward, a leader in IT outsourcing and staffing solutions today announced the formation of PMforward.  This division will provide project management consulting services, centralized management of project delivery, leadership coaching and training, process improvement identification, and management of PMO methodologies. “BCforward has always had a quite sizable project management office, with over 300 resources spread nationwide. We decided to create PMforward because it helps current and potential clients truly understand what our capability is” said Terrill Krigger, Director of Account...


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