by dbward@mitre.org | Apr 1, 2020 | Innovation, Rapid Acquisition
Disrupting Acquisition Blog JTRS: A Cautionary Tale For Today A version of this post originally appeared in National Defense Magazine in 2012. It has been edited and updated. In a January 2012 article titled Failure To Communicate, published on the Center For Public...
by m93718 | Mar 23, 2020 | Innovation
Disrupting Acquisition Blog The Game-Changer We’ve Been Expecting Isn’t a Technology “When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, ‘Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.’” ― Fred Rogers We...
by m93718 | Jan 23, 2020 | Innovation, Mindset
Disrupting Acquisition Blog The Pentagon’s Missing Whiteboards One day as I sat in a meeting in a Pentagon conference room, it hit me. There are no whiteboards in this room. In fact, most of the conference rooms lack a whiteboard. While individual offices and...
by dbward@mitre.org | Oct 30, 2019 | Innovation, Mindset
Disrupting Acquisition Blog You Should Make A Video By Dan Ward & Deb Zides Hardware 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....
by m93718 | Oct 29, 2019 | Accelerate, Book Reviews, Innovation
Disrupting Acquisition Blog Repeatability: DoD Innovation in a World of Constant Change Program Executive Officers, who we view as the key linchpins to rapidly delivering integrated suites of capabilities, should add Repeatability to their reading list. They should...
by m93718 | Sep 30, 2019 | Accelerate, Book Reviews, Innovation
Disrupting Acquisition Blog What Matters Now – Defense Acquisition Business Strategy expert Gary Hamel shared some great insights in What Matters Now: How to Win in a World of Relentless Change, Ferocious Competition, and Unstoppable Innovation. The following is...
