Tag: science

Organizations Bleeding Out (The Unknown Loss)

Paying Folks to Learn and Leave It is easy to talk about statistics and point out numbers associated with employee turnover.  It isn’t easy for organizations to quantify what the turn over actually is costing.   Human resource information systems exist that can provide some numbers but those are numbers are essentially an average range. […]

PKM From Person to Enterprise (Business Book Summary Edition)

What is PKM? Personal knowledge management from Collabor8now Ltd That was the easy part. How does PKM translate from the employee to the enterprise? Example #1 How to make beef jerky (steps http://www.wikihow.com/Make-Beef-Jerky) Explicit Example #2 (steps with video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfgSCMxttCc) Tacit Example #3 The list (http://allrecipes.com/recipe/docs-best-beef-jerky/) Explicit  All personal.  The real question here is HOW did I get this information […]

The Doctor will See You Now – Context = Business Quick Fix

Chances are if you go to the doctor you will have a short conversation, a quick check up and some blood work.   When your results come back your doctor will call you in to discuss your findings.   If your doctor practices medicine as a modern practitioner and there are any problems found they will look […]

In support of our Warfighter Creed

Perception  “Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.” – Albert Einstein Google “Contractors Creed” and this is what you get from http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.php?57037-Contractors-Creed THE CONTRACTORS CREED I am a contractor. I look out for myself, the operators to my left and right, and no one else. I will always take advantage of the fact […]

“It boiled down to courage and tenacity”: My “Inbox Interview” with Howard Cohen, Community Manager at DISA Forge.mil and Technologist by Chris Maher

I was interviewed a few weeks back by Chris Maher on Linkedin.  The topic was concerning “Trusted Computing”  and ramblings on security. CM: Howard, as you know, I quoted you at the 2011 NSA Trusted Computing Conference & Exposition: “Well.. I believe in Americans. I believe that when we see various challenges that we individually […]

Happy 4th of July (SPECIAL DISPATCHES FROM THE FIELD)

Today is the 4th of July.   What does it mean to you?  Joni Douglas writes “Do we ever reflect on the hardship and terror that the early Americans must have lived through day after day? Do we truly understand the hopes and dreams that lay secretly hidden away in the hearts of the people back […]

Community Management Metrics

Community Metrics in Context In late 2011 I started working for DISA on the Forge.Mil project.   Forge.Mil is a really great concept that was born out of the need for a change in the Department of Defense concerning software development and application life-cycle management.  Some the concepts that attracted me to Forge (that is […]