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 Feb 12

Teamwork Gave US Clear Ocean View

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How Do You Give the US Navy and Coast Guard “Friend Or Foe” Awareness of Any Ship, Crew or Cargo Afloat Anywhere in the World - Fast? Ask Mike Krieger.

The Situation. The 9/11 planes had crashed into the World Trade Center and Pentagon. A year later a Cuban gunboat docked in Key West – undetected. The seas were wide open – and so were US ports. Neither the US Navy nor Coast Guard had “maritime domain awareness” – but needed it fast. But the information was locked up in stovepiped systems no one could share.

The Challenge: Get the services sharing information fast.

The Collaboration: Mike Krieger from the CIO’s office brought a small group of technically savvy, highly-authorized Navy, Coast Guard and Transportation folks together. Each had some of the data - none had the common operating picture. Krieger's goal: prove a solution not in years, but in 9 months. Read what happened next in this Bloomberg.com excerpt.

 

17
 Jan 12

Dead Phones Sent Wall Street a message

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How Do You Ensure Your Telcom Infrastructure Will Withstand The Next Cataclysmic Strike – And Keep Traders, Exchanges, and the Global Capital Markets Humming? Ask the New York Stock Exchange.

The Situation: The 9/11 attacks had devastated lower Manhattan. Even so, the New York Stock Exchange was ready to trade 24 hours later. The problem: Verizon wasn’t.

The Challenge: Rebuild the NYSE’s telcom infrastructure so it was resilient as never before – and no longer dependent on the telcom provider. Who would pay?

The Collaboration: SIAC, the NYSE’s engineering arm, had the plans waiting. Before crisis, they never made sense – or the SIAC engineers could never make the case. After crisis, it all looked different. Read what happened next in this Bloomberg.com excerpt.

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17
 Jan 12

With Safety, Alcoa Showed It's Mettle

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How Do You Energize Labor and Management to Collaborate for High Performance? Ask Alcoa’s Paul O’Neill.

The Situation: The American aluminum giant was back on its heels, struggling to overcome sluggish global demand and new competitors. Alcoa’s board brought on new CEO Paul O’Neil – the first outsider ever to run the company. His mission: restore Alcoa to its once-towering greatness.

The Challenge: Mobilize a workforce and management long at odds around a shared vision of high performance– something everyone could agree to, dig in for, and win on.

The Collaboration: It was all about safety. O’Neil set Alcoa’s goal at perfection - reducing workplace injury and death to zero. Those improvements would yield deep process knowledge, overall performance gains, and impossibly good returns to the bottom line. The results - for safety, and profitability - astounded all. Read what happened in this Bloomberg.com excerpt.

 

 

 

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29
 Nov 11

Rally Fighter: Collaborate for Design and Manufacture

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How Do You Engage Thousands of Automotive Enthusiasts, Crowd Source Design of a High-Performance Off-Road Racer, and Go from Global Concept to American Manufacture....in Twenty Four Months? Ask Local Motors' Jay Rogers.

The Situation: To John B. "Jay" Rogers the Big 3 car makers designed cars slowly; designs lagged the potential of software and materials; manufacturing was divorced from design; and results were always hit or miss with consumers.

The Challenge: Could Rogers, a Princeton/Harvard MBA and Marine Corp vet -  form a company that harnessed the energy of the global crowd of automotive enthusiasts in the design and build of  safer, more functional, lightweight and efficient cars – faster , better and cheaper than anyone on the market?

The Collaboration Rogers formed Local Motors. With contests and promotions it engaged a world-wide community of 5,000 automotive enthusiasts, and designed and built the Rally Fighter - a vehicle with a stunning exterior inspired by a WWII P-51 Mustang fighter plane. With performance that exceeds that of any competition, Rally Fighter is the next generation of automotive design: built by the crowd, of the crowd, and for the crowd – in twenty four months.  Read more, in “The Case for Collaboration”

 

25
 Nov 11

Submarine Sonar: Collaborate for Superiority

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How Do You Restore the Undersea Advantage of the World's Most Powerful Submarine Fleet – in Months, Not Years – After Its Sonar Has Been Compromised by Twenty Years of Espionage? Ask Bill Johnson, and the US Navy.

The Situation. In the 1990s the oceans had suddenly gone quiet for US subs stalking Russians. Unbeknownst to the Americans, the Russians had quieted their subs and were now stalking the Americans – using technology pilfered from the Navy by the Walker gang over twenty years of Soviet espionage.

The Challenge. Get America’s undersea advantage back – fast.

The Collaboration. Bill Johnson led the procurement of a new generation of submarine sonar – drawing on commercially available off-the-shelf sensors that he could refresh as fast as the market made available – with a design process that engaged the fleet, and competition that assured only best-in-class would go into the submarines. The results: 18 months from start the first boats set sail with sonar that transformed the Americans’ undersea performance. Read how, in “Can You Hear Me Now? Restoring the US Navy’s Undersea Advantage”.

 

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