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Monthly Archives: July 2014
Owning an IT Infrastructure is NOT a Core Competency of Most Businesses
Today’s C-suite leaders share that owning an IT infrastructure is not a core competency of their businesses and acquiring an infrastructure becomes less palatable unless the result directly contributes to improving the business or mission. However, they do want the end result — analytics and data discovery that will make the business more effective, efficient, and profitable. Continue reading
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Defense Acquisition – “Where Did That Requirement Come From, Anyway?”
The PBS series “Connections” was always interesting for me, because it joined the dots between present-day wonders and the science and invention required to make them so. It showed how various discoveries, scientific achievements and world events were successively interconnected to bring about particular aspects of modern technology. For a requirements developer and strategic planner, it provided interesting perspective.
Do you know where the requirement for the height and width of the USAF’s C-17 was derived? Among many other large items, the C-17 had to carry an Abrams tank, so it needed to be so many feet high and wide.
That is interesting bar conversation, until you ask where the Army derived the height and width of an Abrams tank? …..
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Corporate Re-Organization – Efficiency, Effectiveness, and Improve Mission Results
Stick around long enough and everything eventually cycles back. The USAF’s just announced re-org replays some parts of previous structures that may seem somewhat familiar to those who claim part of the past. At Air Force Materiel Command, after the … Continue reading
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Business Value is Driven by Data Context — Big Data Provides Challenge & Opportunity for Additional Insight
Technology is an enabler of new ways to improve the business and getting to the end result. If the next Uber drives down the cost, makes the ride better, improves the publishing process so that more writers are willing to … Continue reading
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Facebook’s “Altering Behavior” Occurs When Any Biz Wants to Improve Customer Experience & Result
The media hype on Facebook is spun as “altering behavior” to make it appear their business analysis is a bad thing. But that is what we all do when we’re tying to improve our business — tweak out the things that don’t work and replace it with products, designs, or services that work better. Good data analysts learn to fail fast and move on to what succeeds. Continue reading
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The Defense Acquisition Conundrum: Requirements, Performance, Oversight, Effectiveness, and Efficiency
Defense Acquisition exists to acquire a service, tool, or product needed to accomplish a mission or function in better fashion, more efficiently, more effectively, less cost. In an earlier and simpler time, the requirement was for rifles, bullets, clothes, food that … Continue reading
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Is It the Rules or the Inability to Make a Decision Inside the Rules That Is Hampering Military Acquisition?
A recent Reuters article pointed to the current acquisition rules as hampering our ability to quickly respond to cyber attacks against the networks, weapons, and the industry at larger. There is without question a large bureaucracy that often seems more … Continue reading
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Can We Help in “Bending the Cost Curve” in the Acquisition Process
The Air Force’s Acquistion lead, William LaPlante is launching an initiative to improve the acquisition process called “Bending the Cost Curve”. In a speech at the Atlantic Council he shared that the AF needs to get better with the up-front … Continue reading
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DIA Is Improving the Mission Through Big Data Analtics, Co-Mingling Data in the Cloud, and Focusing IT on the Business Processes
This is a really big deal and huge step! The Defense Intelligence Agency is focused on co-mingling data, self-discovery, and contextual analysis. The lifeblood of intelligence is not raw data, but the process and quality of analysis that turns the … Continue reading
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What Big Data Can Tell Us About Our Health – It’s All About Medical Honesty, Not Privacy
Bloomberg.com recently had an article that highlighted the potential use of any available data to better understand their patients’/customers’ health and fitness lifestyle. This is essentially the same information that retailers use to market new products to potential new customers, … Continue reading
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