HRM 3440 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Radio-Frequency Identification, Federal Aviation Administration, Internal Revenue Service
HRM 3440 Lecture 6 Notes – MITRE Taps the Brain Trust of Top U.S. Experts
Introduction
• Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags are used in a variety of settings.
• Game theory involves the use of information systems to develop competitive strategies
for people, organizations, and even countries.
• Informatics combines traditional disciplines, such as science and medicine, with
computer science.
• Bioinformatics and medical informatics are examples.
• A number of special-purpose telecommunications systems can be placed in products for
varied uses.
• MITRE Corporation is responsible for managing the Research and Development (R&D)
Centers for the U.S. Department of Defense, the Federal Aviation Administration, the
Internal Revenue Service, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, and the Department of
Homeland Security.
• MITRE also researhes e tehologies that ay assist i solig its liets’ proles.
• More than 7,000 scientists, engineers, and support specialists work in labs managed by
MITRE, ad ost hae aster’s or dotoral degrees.
• Staff members are engaged in hundreds of different projects across the company.
• Each staff member possesses valuable technical, operational, and domain knowledge
that MITRE wants to tap to its full value and potential.
• When knowledge management (KM) systems came on the scene in the mid-1990s,
MITRE immediately saw the benefit for its researchers and has been tinkering with KM
ever since.
• With so many research specialists engaged across its labs, the value of tapping each
other’s koledge ad ollaoratig o projets is iese.
• Hoeer, it’s a hallege to iterat effiietly ith lo oerhead hile researhers are
simultaneously working on hundreds of separate projects.
• For knowledge management, MITRE takes a gradual learn-while-you-go approach.
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