by dbward@mitre.org | Oct 30, 2019 | Innovation, Mindset
Disrupting Acquisition Blog Innovation By Dan Ward & Deb ZidesHardware assembly instructions are notoriously difficult to follow. Sometimes it’s because the words and pictures on the page were badly written, poorly labeled, or visually ambiguous. Other times the...
by ltedder | Oct 8, 2019 | Mindset
Disrupting Acquisition Blog Lorna Tedder Everyone seems a little frantic to figure out Middle Tier of Acquisition (MTA) as well as non-FAR-based Other Transactions because we all know you can’t go fast with the FAR and DoD 5000, right? You’d almost think this kind of...
by petemodi | Sep 12, 2019 | Agile, Digital, Mindset
Disrupting Acquisition Blog Digital Thinkers50 is a leader in identifying, ranking, and sharing extraordinary management and business thinking. If you haven’t seen their site and annual awards, it’s definitely worth browsing to learn from some of the...
by ltedder | Sep 10, 2019 | Mindset
Disrupting Acquisition Blog Mindset As an acquisition professional, I wasn’t trained in a silo: I was trained in a cave. I got all the right certifications and then some, yet only now do I understand how much I missed—and how little I understood about anything outside...
by Roger Thrasher | Sep 9, 2019 | Mindset
Disrupting Acquisition Blog Mindset Honed by hundreds of years of battlefield experiences, many militaries have developed “Principles of War” to represent leading truths in the conduct of warfare. Not surprisingly, there is overlap between various statements of such...
by ltedder | Aug 27, 2019 | Mindset
Disrupting Acquisition Blog Mindset It can’t be just you. Ever. No matter how good you are at disrupting the status quo. It can’t be just you out there, creating and driving change. If it is just you, then as soon as you’re gone, then so is the change. It’s true of...
