BioSignia and L1 Enterprises Announce Partnership Promoting Breakthrough Health Risk Assessment Technology to Federal Agencies

Durham, N.C., April, 2009 - BioSignia, a leading technology company bringing predictive modeling solutions to the preventive healthcare market, today announced a strategic partnership agreement with L1 Enterprises, a service-disabled veteran owned company selling and distributing medical and safety/emergency equipment to government agencies. The agreement allows L1 Enterprises to actively promote BioSignia’s Know Your Number® to the wellness, disease management and medical management segments of the Veterans Administration, Department of Defense and other Federal Government Agencies.

The Know Your Number® technology is unmatched by any health risk assessment tool. The report combines clinical data with lifestyle, disease and family history to provide a snapshot of a person’s risk of nine obesity related chronic diseases. The colorful easy to read report also shows how to reduce those risks and allows people to track their progress.

The strategic partnership opens new business opportunities for BioSignia in the Federal Government arena. “Our Know Your Number® Program is a best-in-class approach that provides a personalized disease-specific risk assessment (DRA) tool that transcends the standard health risk assessment technologies (HRA),” says Mark Ruby, Vice President of Business Development at BioSignia. “Our partnership with L1 Enterprises lets us offer this powerful tool to various organizations in the Federal Government and make a significant impact on disease prevention as well as improvements in health outcomes and costs.”

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Understanding and Managing the 4 Generations in the Workplace

There is much agreement in business about generational diversity in the new millennium for American workers. First, most business researchers agree that there are 4 very different generations in the workplace: the Veterans, the Baby Boomers, Generation X, and Generation Y workers. Second, many business leaders and managers agree that getting these groups to work together effectively is challenging. Finally, many workers agree that the different generations look at each other with confusion and suspicion as they interact together in the workplace. As a result, generations are colliding in the workplace and business professionals are working hard to contain the organizational damage that occurs. Managers and leaders must first understand each of these groups, however, before they can stop generational collisions from occurring in the workplace.

The book, Generations at Work, by authors Zemke, Raines, & Filipczak, provides useful information for understanding each generation and working with them effectively. Each generation is shaped by its year of birth, age, and critical events that occurred in society. These differences give each generation unique work values and work ethics and preferred ways of managing and being managed.

The oldest generation in the workplace is the Veterans. The Veterans were born between 1922 and 1943, and they are also known as the Greatest Generation, Loyalists, and the Traditionalists. Notable members of this generation include Jimmy Carter, Geraldine Ferraro, and Warren Buffett.

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Government vs. Corporate Contracting

Government vs. Corporate Contracting

June 28, 2010 by Clovia Hamilton

In this economy, businesses need not put all of their eggs in one basket.  They should seek public government contracts and private deals.  There are set asides in government contracts for small businesses, woman owned businesses, veteran owned businesses, and minority owned socially and economically disadvantaged businesses.  In order to be eligible, these businesses have to get registered and certified.  Businesses that do not meet these categories can team with businesses that do in order to take advantage of set asides.

I worked in government for more than 25 years and began the business development journey in 2005.  I have met thousands of business owners.  One topic that seems to confuse some business owners is whether their government business registrations and certifications can be used in corporate contracting.  Well, no.  Corporations have supplier diversity programs and look for Women Business Enterprise (WBE) and Minority Business Enterprise (MBE) certifications which differ from those in federal, state, county and city programs.

Government Contracting

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