Smart Data: Enterprise Performance Optimization Strategy

DIFFERENT VIEWPOINTS: EXECUTIVE AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIST

This text is written from different viewpoints:

1. Government: James George is a government consultant who also has extensive commercial enterprise management experience and is also a business process improvement consultant.
2. Academia: Dr. James Rodger is a college professor and government and commercial consultant who worked with George on the Battlefield Backorder Initiative (B3I) and Supplier Response Improvement Program (SRI) for the U.S. Department of Defense. Dr. Rodger is an expert in the subject of decision support and management information systems.

The B3I/SRI project involved analyzing millions of backorder military parts records to determine attributes that could be used to predict, prevent, and mitigate perpetual shortages plaguing actual war combatants. The effort produced predictive methodology and algorithms that illustrate the applications of a part of our vision for smart data and smart data strategy. Former DOD client (retired), Donald Hall, collaborated with George in creating the Service-Oriented Enterprise (SOE) paradigm and notion of “smart data.”