Apr 1, 2019 | Blog, Cross-Organizational Information Sharing, Learning Organization
MITRE offered Discover Engineering Family Day visitors a chance to build their own tiny robots.Author: Russell WoolardWhat child can resist the challenge of building a tiny robot (or “bot”) using the head of a toothbrush, a button battery, and a pager motor?Judging...
Oct 17, 2018 | Blog, Learning Organization
James Ellenbogen and Ruba Emran. Photo: Andy CleavengerAuthor: Russell WoolardRuba Emran was assigned the task of exploring what she calls a “science fiction idea”—one that’s been around for a while, but whose time, so far as practical application, has not yet come....
Oct 1, 2018 | Blog, Learning Organization
Members of MITRE’s Multicultural Employee Resource Group celebrate Hispanic heritage at Luzia a Cirque du Soleil show inspired by the richness of the Mexican culture. Photo used with permission.Author: Dr. Asma AbuzaakoukWhat is the business value of inclusion...
Aug 20, 2018 | Blog, Learning Organization
Photo by rawpixel on UnsplashAuthor: Shelley KirkpatrickOnce every few months, I find myself in a meeting where a problem has just been solved and now some sort of action is needed to put a solution in place. My initial excitement about making real progress is often...
Jul 16, 2018 | Blog, Learning Organization
Photo courtesy of UnsplashAuthor: Amanda AndreiChances 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?Embedded systems are...
Jul 5, 2018 | Blog, Knowledge Advantage, Learning Organization
Author: Lisa PacittoOur 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 we hope to solve our most...
Apr 5, 2018 | Blog, Learning Organization
How might we redesign an organization to improve mission outcomes without assuming that reorganization is the right first choice? The authors suggest that leaders think carefully about the human systems they oversee and then review their options systematically. Yes,...
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. Stories about successful shifts in strategy and process. Stories of failure. The best might be stories about how to design for...
Jan 11, 2018 | Blog, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, and Data Science
In her previous post, Technical Challenges in Data Science, Amanda Andrei discussed the need for technical vigilance with experts Dr. Elizabeth Hohman, statistician and group leader within MITRE’s Department of Data Analytics, and Dr. Eric Bloedorn, senior principal...
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...
Jun 22, 2017 | Blog, Knowledge Operations, Strategy
MITRE is, and always has been, a learning company. It’s a point of pride among staff to be immersed in training, a new degree, a new book, a new talk. The key to making it all stick, however, is intent and practice. Whether you agree with the 10,000 hours concept or...
Mar 13, 2017 | Blog
In this post, Howard Gershen describes how he managed Samuel Johnson’s feat of making “new things familiar, and familiar things new” for colleagues with discriminating palates. Best part of his approach is that you can try it right away, adjusting, of course, to the...
Oct 31, 2016 | Blog, Cross-Organizational Information Sharing
Linda Fischetti, John Shottes, Lisa Tutterow, Cynthia Taylor Small, Steve Scott, Marianne Smith, Phil Trudeau, Lara Van Nostrand, and Stacey Zlotnick—who together bring expertise in learning, technology, and healthcare to the endeavor—created an interactive learning...
Sep 26, 2016 | Blog, Knowledge Operations
As MITRE’s Health and Wellness Program Manager, Susan Skelly knows what makes MITRE staff tick—literally. Susan’s account highlights her team’s approach to sharing health-related knowledge with staff immersed in their work. How does your company keep your staff...
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 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...
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....
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...
