Points of View
Welcome to the “Points of View” Page for SET™. Here we regularly share our thoughts on capturing competitive pursuits, particularly as they apply to SET. We hope that you find them interesting, thought-provoking, and valuable with helping you win your next bid.
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All the Best,
Peter Lierni
Co-Founder, SET
Points of View Previews
- The Potential Impact of Elon Musk’s and Vivek Ramaswamy’s DOGE on GovCon
- “Methinks Thou Dost Protest Too Much.” Are Your Competitive GovCon Bids Really Protest Proof?
- What Is the Responsibility of the C-Suite in Enabling a Competitive GovCon Win?
- The Least Expensive Way to Grow Your GovCon Business Is to Continually Ready for Recompete, and Organically Expand within Your Existing Client Agency
- With Emerging Use of AI Across the GovCon BD Lifecycle, Where’s the Thinking?
- Is Your Program Manager Killing Your GovCon Business?
- Why Is the Amount of Time That a Typical GovCon Capture Manager Stays Employed with a Company Increasingly Getting Shorter Post-Pandemic?
- Is Your Capture Manager A Hack?
- With Competitive GovCon Pursuits, How Do You Prevent Capture Drift?
- “$%@! Prompt This!” ― A GovCon CEO’s Feelings About Using AI at His Company to Win Competitive Bids
- Are Your Company’s GovCon Business Development Lifecycle Efforts Additive?
- You Win or Lose Competitive Pursuits in Capture
- Without An Upfront Capture-Based Blueprint to Win a Competitive GovCon Pursuit, How Can You Satisfy the Customer’s House?
- You Are Winning, But Can You Scale?
- The Biggest Issue in the GovCon Proposal Creation Process
- Stuck in the Middle―“What Can Mid-Size Players in the GovCon Marketspace Do?”
- Winning Competitive GovCon Pursuits Really Is About Realizing That “We Are in A Thinking-Person’s Business”
- It Is Proposal Strategies that Really Underpin a Competitive GovCon Win
- Here’s the Dirty Secret: Government Evaluators Do Not Even Know What Win Themes Are
- Do You Really Have a Discriminator for Your Next Competitive Bid?
- Internally-Derived Competitive Intelligence—Your Company’s Real Equity
- Have You Done a Thorough Competitive Assessment to Win the Deal?
- “We Lost Our Last Competitive Pursuit on Price.” Oh Really?
- Which Type of Capture Manager Is Leading Your Competitive Pursuit?
- Do You Know What the Ideal Winner Looks Like to Win Your Next Competitive Pursuit?― It’s Not You
- In Competitive Government Pursuits, “Hope Is a Bad Strategy”
- Do You Know the Key Factors Necessary to Win Your Next Competitive Pursuit and Why They Are Important to the Customer?
- Do You Really Know What Is Keeping the Customer Up at Night?
- Is Probability-of-Winning (P-Win) A Sufficient Measure for Competitive Pursuits?
- The Hybrid Workforce Is Here to Stay ― Now How Do We Win Competitive Pursuits?
- In a Competitive GovCon Bid, Do You Have All the Pieces of the Solution to Win?
- How Can You Disruption-Proof Your Future Capture Efforts?
- Are You Doing What Is Necessary to Enable Your 3rd-Party Consultants to Help You Win?
- How Do You Become Protest-Proof With Your Competitive Bids?
- Does Being a Capture Manager Make You Feel Nervous?
- Do You Know the Capture Manager Creed?
- Alright Capture Manager,”Show Us What’s Really Behind Those Slides”
- The Death of Thinking
- Too Busy to Win, But Definitely Have Enough Time to Lose
- Artificial Versus Authentic Intelligence in GovCon
- Anyone Can Win Once in GovCon, But Can You Win Twice?
- The Competitive Win Starts Way Before the Proposal
- Congested, Contested and Competitive FedCon
- Capture Debt – Delay, Cut Corners, and Settle for Suboptimal Performance
- Position, Navigation, & Timing in Capture
- Admiral Rickover’s 7 Rules
- “I Assume, I Believe, and I Think” — Words Which Often Contribute to GovCon Competitive Losses
- The Relationship Between the Cognitive Domain of Bloom’s Taxonomy and the Solution Engineering Network™
- Stop the Bullshitting at Your Company’s Color/Gate Reviews
- Does Your Company Too Often Experience a Beat Down?
- Work on the Capture & Work in the Capture
- Attention GovCon C-Suite: Do Your Capture Managers Just Squeeze Time & Money from You?
- Do You Know the DNA of A Competitive Win in GovCon?
- Where the “$%@!” Did This Come From?
- Without Strong Capture, the House of Artificial Intelligence in GovCon Is Either Upside Down or Collapsed
