Re: [soa-forum] Invitation to April 17 Expedition wrkshp at NSF: Achievi

[shelly barrett <s_leigh_barrett@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi. 
I am Shelly from Texas. I have never really posted one comment to this forum as you all know, but I believe it's time.

Your ideas are nice and all, but step outside your boxes for just a moment and see this from average minds.

Since the government is for the people, the change has to come from the people. It's the change in the people that will bring change in the government. Sell the idea to the people and you'll get what you seek from the government. 


You can have 100 meetings about this, but until you walk to the canvas with a full pallet, your picture will not look right and it will sit gathering dust. So allow the people you seek change for, to actually be in the picture you present to the government. The outcome will surprise you.

Basically you're selling an idea with data, and anybody who has ever worked in sales knows the techniques to sell the product. Ideas are the same way. Take it to the people and sell it. It's like
 selling a hotel room to a hesitant buyer. Convince them that they want the room. They aren't just getting a hotel room for $139.00 they are signing knowing I've listened to them, took their needs and wants into consideration and sold them the best room I had at the best available rate with an I can attitude. 

And that is how you will obtain what you're seeking.

Thank you
Paul S Prueitt <psp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>  regarding this month's workshop, I would like to have posted in the
> soa-forum my comments about the agenda; and the timeliness of this.
>
> Workshop Purpose:
> > How can we achieve value and improve performance across the Federal
> > enterprise? This workshop intends to identify obstacles that potentially
> > hinder the Government from improving, and conduct a collaborative search
> > for
>  ways to overcome obstructions and deal with these tough issues.    We
> > have identified four major areas for discussion at this first Enterprise
> > Process Improvement Community of Practice (EPIC) workshop:
> > 1) Process Enterprise : How can we encourage Government to recognize the
> > value of describing, managing, and improving the processes we perform to
> > achieve our mission? How can we ensure that our business processes are
> > aligned to achieve organizational goals?
> > 2 ) Best Practice and Standards : How can we efficiently and effectively
> > incorporate standards-based best practices in the work that we do every
> > day? What value do international and national standards provide to the
> > Government?
> > 3)  Management, Change, and Culture : How can we promote process
> > improvement with executives, business partners, and organizational
> > managers? Who is responsible for process improvement and
>  enterprise
> > architecture? Is it beyond the CIO? How can we motivate the Government to
> > change?
> > 4)  Process Improvement and Enterprise Architecture : How are these
> > related? How can they be coordinated? How can we ensure "best practices"
> > are used in "to-be" processes? Can we tie process improvement to the FEA
> > Framework?
>
> see also the CIO Council wiki page
>
> http://colab.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ExpeditionWorkshop/Achieving_High_Ente
> rprise_Performance_By_Connecting_ProcessImprovement_KM_And_EA
>
> All of these issues are old issues, but presented in a refreshing way.
>
> The change of culture is the most difficult issue simply due to the power of
> the status quo - that status quo stability having received actually in the
> trillions of dollars from the federal government to support the IT
> industry... and in some small ways to make information technology the
> business opportunity that it has
>  become.
>
>
> Linking process models to existing enterprise architecture may merely
> strengthen the hold that improper and measurably unsuccessful IT systems
> have.  One has to be careful to point out that the social value of IT comes
> with a hidden cost.  Is the federal government funding the very paradigms
> that is causing the data -non-interoperability problem as well as the very
> expensive IT procurement process?
>
> The point of view that I have developed has largely been informed by the
> history of the 60 monthly meetings that Susan Turnbull has hosted in the
> executive offices of NSF, under the over sight of GSA.
>
> This point of view is presented in the Resilience Project White Paper, which
> readers may review at:
>
> http://www.ontologystream.com/beads/nationalDebate/ResilienceProjectWhitePap
> er.htm
>
> A solution to the cultural change problem is proposed in the White Paper.
>
>
> Paul S Prueitt, PhD (mathematics and
>  quantum cognitive neuroscience)
> founder:  www.secondschool.net and www.ontologystream.com
> 505-613-2108
>
>
>
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