CIO100 Presentation: Air Combat and Coal Cloud Agility
1. Air Combat and Coal
Understanding Business Agility and
IT Spending in the Age of Cloud
Dave Roberts
Sr. Director, Solutions Marketing
david_roberts@bmc.com
@sandhillstrat
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4. Air Combat and Coal
Understanding Business Agility and
IT Spending in the Age of Cloud
Dave Roberts
Sr. Director, Solutions Marketing
david_roberts@bmc.com
@sandhillstrat
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41. Although al Qaeda's decision-making loop was
quick, their ability to apply that in a systemic manner
was slow because it would take weeks or months to
put together a dramatically staged event like a bomb
attack in a crowded market. And that often gave the
coalition the ability to counter the insurgent’s efforts.
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42. “So by the time the surge comes along, what
[Gen. David] Petraeus did, which was brilliant,
was to decentralize our own OODA loop, if you
will, by delegating the responding authorities
down to brigade and, in some cases, battalion
level,” Scales said.
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43. “The enemy was still stuck with a classical Maoist-
type of decision-making apparatus while the
coalition had a much more streamlined decision-
making apparatus that allowed them to react very
quickly on the street.”
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