Aug 15, 2016 | Analytic Tools, Blog, Cross-Organizational Information Sharing
If you’ve ever experienced weather-related turbulence while traveling on a plane, you know it can be a frightening experience. Understanding how weather events impact air operations can help pilots avoid potentially dangerous situations. The MITRE Corporation’s Center...
Aug 8, 2016 | Blog, Cross-Organizational Information Sharing
Cyber Denial, Deception and Counter Deception: A Framework for Supporting Active Cyber Defense, by Kristin Heckman, Frank Stech, Roshan Thomas, Ben Schmoker and Alexander Tsow, examines how using denial and deception (D&D) techniques can prevent cyber attackers...
Jul 28, 2016 | Assessment & Recognition, Blog
MITRE award winner Dr. Alex Tsow discusses a first-of-its-kind framework for active cyber defense at MITRE’s Knowledge Advantage Event May 19. (Photo by Jae Robinson)Authors: Donna Cuomo and Jean ColbertSince 2001, MITRE has run an internal, formal Knowledge...
Jun 27, 2016 | Blog, Collaboration, Partnerships and Social Media, Cross-Organizational Information Sharing
MITRE’s intranet team stays on top of trends like responsive design. They also keep us responsive to one another so that we can engage in the reachback that helps us answer our customers’ questions. In this post, the authors describe how MITRE’s Organization Pages...
Jun 21, 2016 | Blog, Collaboration, Partnerships and Social Media, Cross-Organizational Information Sharing
This second post on the challenges of retaining corporate know-how in the face of changing work-force demographics reviews an extended conversation among interested MITRE staff. Because it’s always easier to come up with ideas than to implement them, this group...
Jun 13, 2016 | Blog, Collaboration, Partnerships and Social Media, Cross-Organizational Information Sharing
This first of two posts covers some of the challenges of retaining the know-how of experienced staff in the face of changing work-force demographics. The authors compare tacit and explicit knowledge, and consider how companies might capture and retain this rich...
Apr 25, 2016 | Blog, Collaboration, Partnerships and Social Media
When you hear the word documentation, if the first image that pops into your head is the crummy user guide you just threw away, you are in for a surprise. In the hands of Alex Lyte, John Griffith, Tod Levitt, and Leo Obrst, documentation is an indispensable business...
Apr 18, 2016 | Blog, Collaboration, Partnerships and Social Media
MITRE’s Patient Toolkit mobile app enables chronically ill patients to better manage knowledge about their conditions, track their symptoms and medications, and communicate what they know to their healthcare providers. MITRE has a simple process to enable...
Apr 11, 2016 | Blog, Collaboration, Partnerships and Social Media
Cognitive assistance isn’t mainstream yet, but decision support tools that enable decision-makers to understand tradeoffs in multiple dimensions are available. Shawn Chin and Rick Haberlin, who built one such tool, make the case that “engagement requires visualization...
Apr 5, 2016 | Analytic Tools, Blog
Scott Lucas’s rich contribution to an ongoing conversation about how to help our sponsors understand and think about their data adds the caveat that good decisions don’t just come from the data itself, but from what organizations do with it and how they share their...
Mar 28, 2016 | Analytic Tools, Blog
Even wordsmiths like Amanda Andrei know that knowledge sharing unequivocally requires that words and pictures work together to get anything valuable done. Visualization and the training that makes it possible become more valuable every day. All of the posts for April...
Mar 15, 2016 | Blog, Collaboration, Partnerships and Social Media
In Liz Hayes’s post about routine check-ins, seemingly simple collaboration processes and trust enable hard-working, distributed teams to succeed. —Editor Author: Liz HayesI joined a new project last summer, a Global Information System (GIS) effort run by Keith W....
Mar 7, 2016 | Intranets, Business Process, and Knowledge Operations
Marcia Nunes’s post on mobile-friendly headers is a good reminder that ease of use is not magic, that human factors specialists are central to user experience, and that MITRE takes their counsel seriously.—EditorAuthor: Marsha NunesProviding a consistent user...
Feb 26, 2016 | Blog, Collaboration, Partnerships and Social Media, Documents, Intranets, Business Process, and Knowledge Operations
This guide describes and points to resources that help staff thrive in their assignments. It outlines the tools and systems in place for planning and execution, all in support of the way that MITRE does business. As staff enable reliable knowledge capture and reuse,...
Feb 26, 2016 | Blog, Intranets, Business Process, and Knowledge Operations, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, and Data Science
Authors: Marilyn Kupetz and Angela O’HanlonMITRE’s Analysis Tool Shed Lab (ATS) program is one of MITRE’s largest R&D Labs, focusing on analysis capability and analytic activity. Lab users acquire hands-on experience with 100+ tools and datasets, MITRE prototypes,...
Feb 4, 2016 | Blog, Collaboration, Partnerships and Social Media, Cross-Organizational Information Sharing
As a workforce becomes increasingly distributed, it is more important than ever to facilitate, ensure, and capture collaboration in order to share knowledge effectively and efficiently; effective communication is essential to achieving business goals. As mobile...
Jan 28, 2016 | Blog, Collaboration, Partnerships and Social Media, Cross-Organizational Information Sharing
Knowledge management is all about making sure that all components of an organization, project, or task can work together regardless of staff rotation. We capture, store, share, analyze, and share some more precisely because who’s coming or going will change. Sadia...
Dec 16, 2015 | Blog, Cross-Organizational Information Sharing, Intranets, Business Process, and Knowledge Operations, Knowledge Advantage
Brett Profitt’s observation that “MITRE sets teleworkers up for success, but teleworkers must endeavor to be successful” resonated. No matter how many business process tools an organization makes available, staff have to use them to good end. And he does, mentioning...
Dec 3, 2015 | Blog, Knowledge Advantage, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, and Data Science
MITRE’s knowledge-sharing culture incorporates many kinds of resources, from human, to traditional paper, to digital. For researchers like Melissa Dolph, the wealth of resources enables her to perform on behalf of customers and to network, both of which enrich her...
Oct 6, 2015 | Collaboration, Partnerships and Social Media, Cross-Organizational Information Sharing
The phrase corporate training may sound like, well, school, but in the hands of Lara Van Nostrand, it is anything but. Her team sets up collaborative learning experiences that take advantage of online classes held elsewhere (e.g., Coursera), interactive survey...
