Jan 4, 2021 | Blog, Cross-Organizational Information Sharing
Charles Schmidt worked with his leadership in the Cyber Security Technical Center to figure out ways to incentivize better use of Tech Stature to record outreach activities. The Collaboration & Information Management department in Corporate Operations created the initial ROAR website to record awardees, and the Digital Content and Creative department designed the ROAR ribbons with their roaring lion icon. Thanks to these collective efforts, the Ribbons for Outreach Activity Recognition, or ROAR, was born.
Dec 9, 2019 | Blog, Learning Organization
Innovation doesn’t just happen, and it cannot be forced. It takes time, effort, and commitment to find a new path forward. Still, sometimes asking the right question can set us on that path. That is the goal of MITRE’s Open Innovation Challenge.
Apr 15, 2019 | Blog, Learning Organization
A few days ago, I was taking an exercise class at the gym. The highly motivational instructor often tells the class, “Your goal tonight is to fail! If you get to the point that you can’t do the exercise or lift your weight, then you have achieved your goal of muscle failure!” It got me thinking…
Jul 16, 2018 | Blog, Learning Organization
Chances are, you’ve interacted with an embedded system today. Did you use a thermostat? How about a car? Or maybe a mobile phone? Or a television, a game console, an elevator, a train, a pacemaker?…
Jun 27, 2018 | Blog, Collaboration, Partnerships and Social Media, Intranets, Business Process, and Knowledge Operations, Knowledge Advantage, Knowledge Operations, Learning Organization
Federal acquisition is easy and straightforward, said no one ever. Rules, regulations, policies, procedures, definitions, requirements, contracts, forms—constantly updated …
May 24, 2018 | Blog, Collaboration, Partnerships and Social Media, Knowledge Operations
This award-winning project enables the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to forecast the future aviation fleet in the United States. Previously, having to contract externally for this forecast, the FAA had minimal insight into how the forecast was produced…
Oct 2, 2017 | Blog, Intranets, Business Process, and Knowledge Operations
When we interviewed Angela O’Hanlon 18 months ago, she reported that the key to the success of the ATS Lab was listening—to sponsors and industry, to staff and leadership. What did they need and want? This capability has since traveled a long way and shows no signs of...
Sep 28, 2017 | Blog, Knowledge Advantage
If staff do fabulous work, but no one can ever reference it again—well, that’s not a good outcome. MITRE always tries to bring our whole company to bear, and our products, when staff know where to find them, bear fruit over and over. MITRE Product Libraries make...
Jul 26, 2017 | Assessment & Recognition, Blog, Knowledge Operations
Author: Amanda L. AndreiPassionUncertaintyLearningDiversityThe reward of doing work wellThese were only a few of the answers MITRE employees gave to Dr. Peter Senge’s question, “Think of a team you enjoyed being a part of—what made it good?” at our annual Knowledge...
Jun 8, 2015 | Assessment & Recognition, Awards, Blog
Awards! Who doesn’t like to be recognized for good work? Yet Knowledge Management Awards programs are not ubiquitous. Marcie Zaharee discusses MITRE’s original awards program and its results. In 2016, MITRE will launch a new program, as the company explores the role...
