Smart Data: Enterprise Performance Optimization Strategy

WHO NEEDS THIS BOOK?

The audiences for this book are:

• Government management and technical enterprise executives
• Commercial enterprise participants in government enterprise: systems integrators and prime and subcontractors
• Technology providers
• Academics: graduate students in private institutions as well as the Defense Management University and others
• Members of professional associations and international standards organizations
• Congressional staff and governance organization, such as Office of Management & Budget and General Accounting Office
• Governance boards

At the core is the desire to make a difference in government and commercial enterprise performance. By advancing this smart data strategy that was developed as a product of discussions during development, we show it has worked effectively in the past. One of our first products on this journey is to produce a powerful strategy for power-filled enterprise leadership.

As a consultant in the early 1990s, George used the phrase “catalysts for change and improvement” in an article for Business Engineering Newsletter to characterize various initiatives embraced by management for a period of time, however fleeting, for the purpose of motivating organizations to change their behavior. Such catalysts have life cycles. Recollection about the Western Electric Hawthorne studies prompted this observation. George thought it humorous that the act of studying workers' environment, changing lighting conditions, adding and removing light bulbs ...