Standardize essential operational data, processes, and business rules in order to significantly improve the DoD's ability to process and share information throughout the enterprise
Simplify overly complex business rules that unnecessarily complicate operations, lead to expensive and risk-filled solutions, and inhibit breakthrough performance improvement
Stovepipe operations must be eliminated from solution design and deployment, so that the DoD's historically narrow-focused approach to business gives way to an approach that seeks to optimize end-to-end business processes
Streamline DoD's core end-to-end business processes to eliminate non-value added activities and achieve significant improvements in the efficiency and effectiveness of business operations
Systems and Services must be deployed in a timely and cost effective manner with a conscious focus on sound requirements management and comprehensive risk mitigation to achieve improved efficiency and effectiveness
BTA Director David Fisher puts into context the roles of the CMO and DCMO and reviews six guiding principles to enable success in business transformation across DoD in a FederalTimes.com commentary.
BTA Director David Fisher was the guest on "Fed Talk" on Federal News Radio Friday, December 19. Fisher spoke about the challenges, opportunities and guiding principles for Business Transformation at DoD.
Full Interview. (mp3 file is courtesy of Federal News Radio)
"Hundreds of legacy business systems will be retired over the next few years, if one small Defense Department agency gets its way." - Gregg Carlstrom, FederalTimes.com
While it will be up to President-elect Barack Obama to fill a congressionally mandated deputy chief management officer position at the Defense Department, the Pentagon already is making preparations for the new official's arrival.
In a July 2008 article, published by The McKinsey Quarterly, the Department of Defense Business Transformation Agency Director David Fisher brings insight from his experience working in Silicon Valley to drive change in DoD’s business processes and information systems. Fisher provides an overview of DoD’s goals for transformation, reviews challenges in deploying technology and managing large-scale projects in support of transformation efforts, keeping people motivated, setting performance measures and lessons learned.
The U.S. Department of Defense, in response to Section 904 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008, has released a Strategic Management Plan and Section 904 Implementation Plan.
Final Section 904 Implementation Plan
FY08 Strategic Management Plan
The BTA training initiative serves to advance understanding of BTA’s programs through one-stop access to high quality e-learning products, tools, and resources.
BTA’s e-learning initiative currently offers the ACART v4.0 e-learning and tutorials on Standard Financial Information Structure (SFIS) and the Enterprise Transition Plan (ETP).
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