Military IT Project Cycle Times

IT systems purchasing and development integrated with weapons system procurement processes results in glacial cycle times for solution delivery in the military technology space. Defense leaders are considering actions for improvement, but organizational complexity could be an insurmountable barrier. ...

... "Lynn said that it is unacceptable that, on average, it takes 81 months from the time a major DoD IT project is funded to the time its operational ... " ...

Via Information Week: IT Acquisition Reforms

Data Center Visual Map

HP offers solutions for data centers with scale that include visual maps of environmental performance for energy tuning and optimization. ...

... "The HP Data Center Environmental Edge solution offers a complete visual mapping of environmental variables so customers can quickly identify and take action on data center inefficiencies. " ...

Via HP: Scale-out Computing

Quantify Innovation Impact

GE launches healthcare strategy that requires innovative solutions to succeed. It expects to develop and deliver a portfolio of innovation projects in order to achieve the industry impact that it is targeting - cost, quality, accessibility, etc. The company will use external services to validate that its innovation projects really do "move the rock" in the healthcare space. ...

... "To date, Oxford Analytica has qualified seven GE products that yield 15 percent improvement in cost, access and quality, with 20 more in the pipeline. GE’s goal is to qualify 100 healthymagination innovations by 2015. " ...

Via GE: Healthymagination

Portfolio metrics ...

Oxford Analytica involvement in GE Healthymagination: "Oxford Analytica will now focus on this second stage, performance measurement, by reviewing GE's portfolio of innovations to determine whether they meet healthymagination standards and contribute to the declared objectives. "

Innovation at its Finest

Highlight video from All Things Digital Conference with great work by Dean Kamen and Deka Research ...

Organizing for Business Intelligence

Nice reference matrix on segmenting business intelligence needs to enable creation of targeted solutions. ...

... "Table 1 illustrates the characteristics and differences between strategic, tactical and operational BI. The business focus, users involved, currency of the data, and even the types of data used differ significantly, depending on the type of business intelligence. " ...

Via B-Eye: Operational Business Intelligence