Looks like the Defense Intelligence Agency is charging ahead in its adoption of collaboration tools, yet in a different way than in the past. According to Mark Greer, the agency’s deputy CIO in DIA: Interoperability runs through service-oriented architecture By Dawn S. Onley (GCN, March 13, 2006), it's no longer a debate about standardizing applications, but rather which data standards are supported under its Service Oriented Architecture.

Lewis Shepherd, DIA’s chief of requirements and research, mentions the agency's adoption of blogging and RSS as an example, “We have no idea what blogging is going to do in two to three years for intelligence analysis, but for a collaborative environment, it will probably dwarf what we could do with a designed system.”

If executives would rather follow than lead as far as technology adoption, as pointed out in my previous blog, then here's an organization to follow.

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