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Robbins-Gioia, Expert Choice Form Alliance
Management consultant Robbins-Gioia LLC (www.robbinsgioia.com) Wednesday announced an alliance with Expert Choice Inc. (www.expertchoice.com), a maker of decision support software.
Expert Choice will contribute implementation and training support to the pact, while Robbins-Gioia will provide its methodologies for strategic planning and program management. The companies plan to provide tools and processes in such areas as portfolio prioritization, vendor selection, new product development, and systems integration.
Robbins-Gioia offers consulting services to state, local, and federal government as well as commercial markets such as automotive and financial services. Expert Choice has more than 50,000 users, according to the company. Customers include Ford, IBM, General Motors, U.S. Navy, U.S. Army, and the Federal Aviation Administration.
John writes the Contract Watch column and his own column for the Channel Insider.John has covered the information-technology industry for 15 years, focusing on government issues, systems integrators, resellers and channel activities. Prior to working with Channel Insider, he was an editor at Smart Partner, and a department editor at Federal Computer Week, a newspaper covering federal information technology. At Federal Computer Week, John covered federal contractors and compiled the publication's annual ranking of the market's top 25 integrators. John also was a senior editor in the Washington, D.C., bureau of Computer Systems News.