Jul 5, 2018 | Blog, Knowledge Advantage, Learning Organization
Our world and workplace are increasingly being aided by artificial intelligence, from personal assistants like Alexa to robots working on assembly lines. But, in most cases, people’s needs must remain front and center if…
Apr 12, 2018 | Blog, Learning Organization
Intellectually, rationally, we know that the people with whom we speak don’t always understand us and that ascribing fault is counterproductive…
Apr 2, 2018 | Blog, Learning Organization
When change management professionals step in to share their knowledge of how organizations can work better, they come with stories…
Oct 23, 2017 | Blog, Knowledge Advantage, Learning Organization
When I read Howard Gershen’s riff on counting with his fingers, what came to mind instantly was theory of mind in the way that I heard Alan Alda explain it at George Washington University as a guest speaker for the Smithsonian. We know that words and pictures work...
Oct 18, 2017 | Blog, Knowledge Advantage
Time, attention, and craft are among the most beautiful, lasting experiences one professional can share with another. The author, a student investigator at MITRE, reflects …
Sep 6, 2017 | Blog, Intranets, Business Process, and Knowledge Operations
Although I’m a mere mortal myself, I do admire leaders with the gift of inspiring—not ordering—others to collaborate and do meaningful work. Command and control approaches are easy to set up, but they don’t necessarily enable enduring greatness or creativity. The...
Jul 24, 2017 | Blog, Cross-Organizational Information Sharing
As co-chair of the Unmanned Aircraft Systems Science and Research Panel, MITRE’s Ted Lester recently presented an update on the past two years of the panel’s work, at the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International’s (AUVSI) Xponential 2017...
Jul 20, 2017 | Blog, Cross-Organizational Information Sharing
MITRE works with the Federal Aviation Administration to enable the safest, most efficient aerospace system in the world and to meet the evolving needs of the nation’s airspace. We have supported the FAA’s mission for more than 50 years and have operated...
May 31, 2017 | Blog, Cognitive Assistance, Cross-Organizational Information Sharing
The 42 staffers and interns who participated in MITRE’s 2017 Hackathon aimed to connect around problems not projects. and connect they did, using Discuss@MITRE, Github, Hackathon.io, Slack, our internal wiki (MITREpedia)–and these are just the tools. The...
Nov 14, 2016 | Analytic Tools, Blog
At his MITRE Innovation Speaker Series talk this past May, Ben Shneiderman talked about his newest book, The New ABCs of Research: Achieving Breakthrough Collaborations, a guide for junior researchers and a manifesto for senior researchers, academic administrators,...
Sep 13, 2016 | Awards, Blog
Even the perpetually frustrated cartoon character Dilbert might take heart if he were to find himself in a workspace that actually supported creativity in a flexible, casual environment designed for human beings. The fantasy is becoming reality as office design...
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...
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....
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...
Sep 24, 2015 | Blog, Collaboration, Partnerships and Social Media, Knowledge Advantage
Recent MITRE publication, Sociocultural Behavior Sensemaking: State of the Art in Understanding the Operational Environment, Demonstrates Value of Collaborative Knowledge Management Practices Dr. David Foster, a social behavioral scientist at MITRE, faced a challenge...
Jul 17, 2015 | Blog, Uncategorized
A good friend and mentor reminds me regularly that knowledge management is a journey, not a destination. Which makes maturity models the boon companion of the KM discipline. This post eyes the prize through the lens of a new volunteer effort that helps military...
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...
Mar 26, 2015 | Blog, Collaboration, Partnerships and Social Media
Gestalt Wikis at MITRE: Origins
This blog post is the first of four in a series about Gestalt Wikis at MITRE. MITRE began using wikis on the corporate intranet in 2005 with the volunteer grassroots creation of MITREpedia. MITREpedia uses open source MediaWiki[1] as its underlying wiki software. The objective as stated in its Main Page was to capture information about MITRE “people, projects, organizations, customers, technology and more.”[2] In a recent conversation with its founder, Harry Sleeper, the motivation behind MITREpedia was elaborated as to provide a collaborative environment where staff could author linked narratives of well-formed, detailed knowledge about their work.
Jan 20, 2015 | Blog, Intranets, Business Process, and Knowledge Operations, Knowledge Operations
MITRE started using SharePoint with a small pilot in 2003 and now has a robust set of several thousand intranet and extranet sites based on SharePoint 2010. It is used as a content management platform, a collaborative team platform (for projects, organizations and CoPs), for work process capture and scheduling, employee engagement, and blogging. It has become critical to MITRE’s business processes, resulting in an evolution of its capabilities over the years.
