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Network Centric Collaboration Power to the Edge

Network Centric Collaboration Power to the Edge. Michael Helfrich Vice-President, Applied Technology. Agenda. Background What we’ve Learned About Collaboration Organizational Reach Mobility & Disconnected Operations Adaptive, Self-Forming Networks Works the way People do What is Groove?

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Network Centric Collaboration Power to the Edge

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  1. Network CentricCollaborationPower to the Edge Michael Helfrich Vice-President, Applied Technology

  2. Agenda • Background • What we’ve Learned About Collaboration • Organizational Reach • Mobility & Disconnected Operations • Adaptive, Self-Forming Networks • Works the way People do • What is Groove? • DEMO: Battlefield Rapid Assessment During Operation Iraqi Freedom • Q&A

  3. Background • Lifetime of work in collaboration • Lotus Notes: Client/server application platform, for centralized business process reengineering • 90M seats deployed worldwide

  4. Organizational Reach • Corporations are centralized • Their operations are becoming highly decentralized • Value chain integration • Small unit swarming Supplier MyCorp Customer

  5. Organizational Reach “Discovery” I’d really like to see a third to half of ‘discovery’ come from the outside. I really want the doors open. A.J. Lafley CEO, Procter & Gamble

  6. Organizational Reach “Discovery” “We require interaction with a tremendous number of experts who are in industry, government, and universities all over the world, and there are lots of interactions where the task needs to be done and then the need disappears. We’re talking not just one, two, or three groups, but thousands…” Ford Calhoun CIO, GSK

  7. Mobility & Disconnected Ops “Wherever I go, there I am” Buckaroo Bonzai, 1984 • In the basement at the customer site • 30,000 ft. • Disconnected/Connected • Same-Time/Different-Time

  8. Self-Forming “Networks” • Adaptive systems approach • Prescriptive systems for collaboration are “languishing” • End-user driven, just-in-time: • Space/enclave creation • Application creation • Membership

  9. Electronic Mail The Event INFO PORTAL Fax • Defined business processes • Workflow • Best practices • Info access and publishing Telephone Instant Msging How people ACTUALLY behave How organizations are SUPPOSED to act Works the Way People Do

  10. Groove is… • A collaborationapplication… • Powered bymobilityservices… • On a standard development platform GrooveWorkspace YourApplication ApplicationDriven Development Platform ContentDriven ProjectDriven Mobility Services Security Synchronization Cross-enterprise/ Cross-firewall Bandwidth optimization Presence/Awareness Notifications/Alerts What is Groove?

  11. Hosting Switching Emergent Architectures “Social Software” “Smart servers” + browsing fabric = universal repository “Smart clients” + switching fabric = secure mobility

  12. Instantly brings together people, tools, and info • Cross-enterprise, across firewall boundaries • Custom solutions integrated with data systems, or • Project and meeting spaces adapted by users to their dynamic needs Groove’s Platform • Dynamic tools and components • Real-time, or Any-time • Across firewall boundaries • Self-healing, adaptive communications • Low vulnerability to SPOF or SPOA

  13. Groove auto-synchronized “shared spaces”Real-time interactivity

  14. Groove auto-synchronized “shared spaces”Online or off-line use

  15. Groove auto-synchronized “shared spaces”Centralized systems integration and management

  16. DEMO Operation Iraqi Freedom Battlefield Rapid Assessment

  17. SUNDAY March 16 MONDAY March 17 THURSDAY March 20 • 80 Users Deployed • Revised form multiple times w/instant transport/distr. • 40 Users Deployed • Humvees w/SAT Phones • DC, Kuwait, Iraq, NYC • RA Form Built • Space Created 20 March: Operation Iraqi Freedom begins 25 March: Talil Airfield Secured, first RAF received Chronology: Groove OIF SATURDAY March 15 • Request Rec’d • Embed JIT RAF process into Groove Forms

  18. Coalition Space Members

  19. CENTER EDGE Conventional Unconventional Systems People COP’s Action Teams Prescriptive Adaptive Process Practice Memory Knowledge Creation Philosophical Tension

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