Baldwin Hackett & Meeks, Inc. Corporate Blog

BHMI has demonstrated resilience through difficult economic times in the past and continues to do so in today’s economy.   Read the full press release to learn how.

BHMI will be showcasing its Concourse Financial Software Suite™, a proven back-office processing solution for electronic payments transactions, at the 2012 PULSE Conference. To learn more, read the full press release.

Software Infrastructure Partnering is a form of outsourcing whereby a company chooses an external enterprise software development partner to serve as a virtual extension of its internal technical staff. BHMI has a long track record of successful software infrastructure partnerships.

BHMI’s newest software infrastructure partnership is with SharedHR.  To ensure SharedHR could remain focused on providing its clients the industry’s best human resource management services, the company selected BHMI as its software services partner.

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SCOLA, a non-profit organization that helps people around the world learn about other cultures, languages, and ideologies, has selected Baldwin Hackett & Meeks, Inc. (BHMI) and Attivio to unify access across its vast array of multi-language learning resources. BHMI is a proven software services company that designs, develops, implements, and supports enterprise applications for businesses in a wide range of industries. Attivio’s award-winning Active Intelligence Engine® (AIE) seamlessly integrates internal and external structured data and unstructured content sources to rapidly provide a more dynamic and engaging online experience.

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No matter an employer’s goals for a company wellness program, without employee engagement the program will fail.  Employee engagement is critical to the success of any and all well-being, health, and productivity programs.  Of this fact, SimplyWell is well aware.  That is why their population health management program is specifically designed to maximize participant engagement and provide measurable results to both employee and employer.  SimplyWell understands that health, work, and life are interconnected, and they have teamed with application developer, BHMI, to ensure their health and wellness application engages program participants on a personal level.  SimplyWell’s HIPAA-compliant web-based population health management application offers employees and patients individualized and actionable health information based on their lab and test results, health risk assessment, and self-reported medical history.  Metrics such as body mass, weight, blood pressure, cholesterol level, and overall health score are always visible in the employee’s personalized dashboard and can be charted over time.

Employers that have achieved real returns from wellness programs can easily recognize the role employee engagement has played on the success of their program.  That is why more and more employers are offering incentives to employees in an effort to promote deeper engagement.  A recent article published in the Omaha World Herald discusses this trend.  The article states that if Alegent employees hit a certain health score or improve their scores by a certain amount, they get a $520 reduction in insurance premiums for the year.

The article quotes Michael Demman, CEO of SimplyWell.  “It used to be that employers would give employees a discount on their premiums or some sort of monetary compensation if they simply attended a health screening,” he said. “More employers are going that next step. They’re using a health score or some sort of scoring system that is directly tied to objective clinical data, such as improvements in body mass index, cholesterol level, or blood pressure. They are using this health score as the measurement of whether an employee is entitled to an incentive.” SimplyWell is an Omaha-based company that runs corporate wellness programs for more than 130 companies nationwide.

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The PMI Heartland Chapter is the Omaha chapter of the Project Management Institute (PMI).  PMI is one of the world’s largest professional membership associations, with half a million members and credential holders in more than 185 countries. It is a not-for-profit organization that advances the project management profession through globally recognized standards and certifications, collaborative communities, an extensive research program, and professional development opportunities.

This is Cheryl Fizgarrald’s second year on the Board of Directors as Vice President of Membership.  Cheryl is a Senior Project Manager at BHMI.  She believes the annual  Professional Development Day is one of the Heartland chapter’s greatest educational opportunities.

This year, the event will be held on Monday, September 17th at the Embassy Suites LaVista Conference Center and is open to Heartland Chapter members as well as non-members.  The event is suitable for a wide spectrum of individuals involved with project management, from those who would like to determine if a career in project management is right for them or are new to the field to those with decades of experience in project management.

It will be a day of networking, opportunities in professional / leadership development, and refinement of project management knowledge and techniques.

For this year’s event, the chapter is bringing in three high-profile keynote speakers:

1. Tom Osborne, Athletic Director at the University of Nebraska
2. Bill Rancic, Original Apprentice Winner, Entrepreneur, and Author
3. Barb Stennes, President and CEO of Resources Unlimited, the #1 worldwide distributor of the Edward de Bono Thinking Systems

Click here for more information or to register.

Cheryl Fitzgarrald is also hosting a book discussion group.  The group met in early April to discuss The Lazy Project Manager by Peter Taylor.  The next discussion will be held on Tuesday, July 10^th.  The chapter is currently soliciting suggestions for books (through May 20th), voting between May 21st – June 3rd, and announcing the book to be read on June 4th.  To vote, please visit the PMI Heartland (NE) Chapter group on Linked In at:  http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=2793105&trk=hb_side_g

The mission of Union Pacific’s Women in Technology (WIT) is to be nationally and globally recognized as highly technical women who strive to make a positive impact in technology by leading innovative efforts in programming, infrastructure and operational support strategies.

WIT holds various events to discuss topics of interest to women in technology.  This year, a panel event was held on March 29th at Union Pacific headquarters in Omaha, NE.  Lynne Baldwin, President of BHMI, was invited to be a part of a panel discussion among three women in technology about their careers in the technology industry.  The panelists each shared their stories of how they had advanced in the industry to the positions they hold today and answered questions from the 100 WIT members in attendance about opportunities, what the future holds, and more.