CONTINUITY OF BUSINESS AND GOVERNMENT:  Groove is mentioned in Edward Yourdon's new book "Byte Wars". The book takes a hard look at the impact of 9/11 on information technology organizations and the resultant architectures that will emerge as we face the fact that the only way to counter a decentralized threat is to fight in a similar fashion. Yourdon tackles the notion of emergent systems (a nicer way to frame what the IT guys, who take shots at me, call "disruptive technology") and the importance of just-in-time, ad-hoc, resilient systems.
Regardless of whether or not the target is government or commercial, four areas of focus are in order:
- OPERATIONAL CLIMATE: The battle is now and forever more asymmetric where groups will form, pulse, disband at a moment's notice
- ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURES: Power and decision processes are pushed to the edges where asymmetry and decentralization rules
- DECISION PROCESS: Command-and-control (deterministic) is no match for truly asymmetric (stochastic) threats
- FACILITATING ARCHITECTURES: The technical architecture must mirror the decentralized nature of the asymmetric, node-based organization. It can withstand sudden attacks at the node and not disrupt the entire system
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