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• The consequences of losing in Iraq.(Viewpoint essay)(Brief article)

  - 2007-07-01

  What happens when you take a 40-year-old CIA memo on losing a war and replace the word "Vietnam" with the word "Iraq"? The result is a set of conclusions that are just a true today. EXPERT ADVICE WORLD LEADERS NEED TO HEAR ...

  Tags: CIA, Iraq, Leadership, policymaker, Strategy, U.S., Vietnam, Viewpoint Corp.

• To defeat terrorists, military services must innovate, disrupt.(VIEWPOINT)(Column)

  - 2007-01-01

  BY ANY MEASURE, REFORMING THE half-trillion dollar, 3 million-member Defense Department is one of the largest innovation projects in history. Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld led the Pentagon's transformation efforts for nearly six years and trumpeted some transformation's successes. However, transformation as a...

  Tags: innovation, Iraq, Leadership, Strategy, U.S., U.S. Department of Defense, Viewpoint Corp.

• Building our science base: a viewpoint from the Soil and Water Conservation Society's executive director.(HOMEFRONT)(Viewpoint essay)

  - 2007-01-01

  Thanks to the leadership and hard work of Max Schnepf, we are celebrating 2007 with a new book entitled Environmental Benefits of Conservation Practices on Cropland: The Status of Our Knowledge. The book is a comprehensive literature review documenting the environmental effects of incorporating conservation practices...

  Tags: Benefits, conservation, Conservation, Leadership, Strategy, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Viewpoint Corp.

• Fundamental questions for the ESDP.(Planning World)(European Spatial Development Perspective)(Viewpoint essay)

  - 2005-11-01

  LORD PALMERSTON famously said of the Schleswig-Holstein question, a great 19th-century issue in European history, that only three people had ever understood it: one was dead, a second had gone insane, and he was the third--but he'd forgotten it. It must be like that with the ...

  Tags: Benefits, Europe, European Commission, FINANCE, France, Strategy, Viewpoint Corp.

• Quality Improvement From The Viewpoint Of Statistical Method

  BNET - 2003-08-01

  With the purpose of guiding professionals in conducting improvement projects in industry, several quality improvement strategies have been proposed which strongly rely on statistical methods. Examples are the Six Sigma programme, the Shainin System and Taguchi's methods. This paper seeks to make a rational reconstruction of these types of improvement...

  Tags: Quality Improvement, Framework, Viewpoint Corp., University Of Amsterdam, Six Sigma, Tqm/Six Sigma/ISO 9000, Process Improvement, Strategy, Quality, Business Operations, It Operations, Management

• Military depots: politics undermines cooperation; public-private partnering key to the long-term health of maintenance and repair depots. (Viewpoint).

  - 2003-07-01

  One of the more contentious issues that the Defense Department and Congress regularly debate is the operation of maintenance and repair depots. With just a few exceptions, the discussions in recent years have remained the same. Congress has legislatively declared its position on ...

  Tags: Government, Manufacturing, SOFTWARE, Strategy, U.S. Congress, U.S. Department of Defense, Viewpoint Corp.

• When universities act like businesses: quick decision making may be anathema to academia, but at Drexel, the motto is, "just do it." - Viewpoint

  - 2002-11-01

  Drexel University, Philadelphia's technological university, has accomplished an impressive list of national firsts, including a fully wireless cybercampus, distribution of speech recognition software to all students and staff, an online affinity bank, and a "computers-for-all" employee-benefit program. Over the past five years, since so many of these measures were put...

  Tags: decision-making, Drexel University, Strategy, Viewpoint Corp.

• Viewpoint: two respected industry figures have their say

  - 2002-09-30

  Q: What will happen to the STP push in Asia now that the US has abandoned t+1? Roger Quek Director of Corporate Marketing Asia Pacific Sungard Group "STP IS SIMPLY A WAY OF REDUCING OPERATIONAL EXPENSES. IT usually involves shutting down a multitude of systems that firms have...

  Tags: bank, Securities Industry Association, Strategy, Viewpoint Corp.

• Wanted: degrees of utility; University is excellent training in chemistry, but not in training chemists for industry. (Viewpoint).(Brief Article)

  - 2002-09-01

  When I graduated from McMaster University many decades ago, I must have known enough chemistry that I could call myself a chemist. Since then, I have been engaged in a number of activities including R&D and teaching, for which I was well prepared and for which I...

  Tags: chemist, chemistry, McMaster University, Strategy, training, Viewpoint Corp.

• Do OPSEC and risk management mesh? OPSEC and risk management both use an analytical process to prevent adversaries from exploiting assets. But there are key differences. (Viewpoint).(Department of Defense's operational security program model)

  - 2001-11-01

  The Defense Department requires that national-security-related missions or functions have an operational security OPSEC program and that they apply sound risk management principles when allocating resources to mitigate threats. Some private enterprises adopt these same principles to protect highly sensitive information or critical assets. But...

  Tags: adversary, asset, FINANCE, SECURITY, Strategy, U.S. Department of Defense, Viewpoint Corp.