As usual your article was excellent. The driving in the dark quotes reminded me of the Rumsfeld quote "...there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns—the ones we don't know we don't know. And if one looks throughout the history of our country and other free countries, it is the latter category that tends to be the difficult ones".
There is also a related chart in a 10year old Volpe report showing constraints on a system as a triangle where the legs are technology, business / cost, and other (e.g., personnel, political, etc.). the points of the triangle are Conservative, liberal, and progressive. The best solution is represented as a point somewhere in the triangle that balances the constraints.
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the title is John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center’s suggested strategy to improve the capabilities and capacity of the current G081/Mobility Air Force Logistics Command & Control system. it's a 2012 report which I saved primarily because it has some good examples of the effects of poor data in maintenance systems. I'll send it to you if you can tell me how.
As usual your article was excellent. The driving in the dark quotes reminded me of the Rumsfeld quote "...there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns—the ones we don't know we don't know. And if one looks throughout the history of our country and other free countries, it is the latter category that tends to be the difficult ones".
There is also a related chart in a 10year old Volpe report showing constraints on a system as a triangle where the legs are technology, business / cost, and other (e.g., personnel, political, etc.). the points of the triangle are Conservative, liberal, and progressive. The best solution is represented as a point somewhere in the triangle that balances the constraints.
Thanks Bob and that's a great analogy! I'd be interested in reading that Volpe report - do you remember what that was called?
the title is John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center’s suggested strategy to improve the capabilities and capacity of the current G081/Mobility Air Force Logistics Command & Control system. it's a 2012 report which I saved primarily because it has some good examples of the effects of poor data in maintenance systems. I'll send it to you if you can tell me how.