Day in a life: Optimizing decision advantage through digital transformation
Current members of the Microsoft Worldwide Defense and Intelligence Team reminisce about their days serving in the armed forces and discuss how digital transformation can optimize decision advantage.
Operating a military or defense command has become increasingly complex as the pace of global change accelerates. So military decision makers need the ability to better understand and address issues quickly. In this episode of the Day in a Life Series, AT Ball, Jeffrey Pearson, Tim Tieng, and Dave McMahon—former military service members who are current members of the Microsoft Worldwide Defense and Intelligence Team— discuss optimizing decision advantage through a retrospective view of their time in different branches of the US military.
From heavily relying on incoming data while in submarines to using inaccessible and siloed systems for mission-planning products, speakers share real-life examples from their service and discuss ways to improve and optimize decision advantage using Microsoft tools and technology, digital transformation, and more.
To find out more:
- Learn more about how Microsoft can support digital transformation in Defense and Intelligence
- Day in a life: Empower personnel and modernize facilities blog
- Day in a life: Transforming the capability lifecycle
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