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Three Reasons Public Sector Must Transform Grants Management NOW

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To reduce inefficiencies and fraud, grant activities are governed by several regulations including these two relatively recently enacted laws: The Digital Accountability and Transparency Act of 2014 (DATA Act) – This law expands on federal awards reporting reforms that began with the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006.

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Zip Forward 2024: Forging paths to sustainable success

Spend Matters

So, the term ‘spend orchestration’ that some like to use is really just upgraded spend management. Real guided buying, a term coined by one of this article’s authors in 2006 (a fact hilariously pointed out by a speaker at the Zip conference) is actually fairly complicated , but making the complex simple is harder than the opposite.