April 2010 Hot Topic Meeting Announcement
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BREAKFAST MEETING		 Wartime Content, Records, and Knowledge Management

On the Joint Staff and Combatant Commands

  
 Thursday, March 25, 2010
Breakfast Event
The Universities at Shady Grove
About this event: 

Mark Patrick’s briefing will present the challenge of records management for the organization which supports the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the principal military advisor to the Secretary of Defense and the President of the United States. It will focus on the past two years—the Joint Staff’s continuing deployment of the Enterprise Content Management (ECM) tool Documentum, oversight of ten combatant commands’ records management programs, and the impact of web 2.0 technologies on workflow and records management in a fast-paced staff environment. It will describe where the Joint Staff is now and where it is attempting to go. Finally it will explore the cultural change which is evolving the way content and records managers must work in their organizations as traditional information management practices are absorbed as a subset of content management and that as a subset of knowledge management. This case study is made all the more intriguing as it unfolds in a rarefied environment—during a time of war in Iraq and Afghanistan, causing pressure on the knowledge workers who are required to research and draft advice that must come to the Chairman "at the speed his job requires."

"The Joint Staff must be capable of responding at the speed my job requires, not the speed that a particular process currently allows." -- Admiral Mike Mullen, CJCS Guidance for 2008-2009

About our speaker: 

Mark S. Patrick, Chief, Information Management Division
Joint Secretariat, Directorate of Management
The Joint Staff

 

Mr. Patrick is responsible for oversight of the Records Management Program for the Joint Staff and ten Combatant Commands on behalf of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The Chairman is assigned program responsibility by the Department of Defense, Chief Information Officer (DOD Directive 5015.2) who is the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Networks and Information Integration.


Mr. Patrick’s division is made up of approximately 30 civilian employees and one military officer serving as Deputy. It manages the official corporate archive of record for the "Top Five" of the Joint Staff—the Chairman and Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Assistant to the Chairman, Director and Vice Director of the Joint Staff. In addition to assisting staff action officers with research for current business, Mr. Patrick has responsibility for Joint Staff Enterprise Content Management policy, the Freedom of Information Act program, and Automatic Declassification Project. He is an alternate member of the Joint Staff’s Knowledge Management Board.
 

Over the past two and a half years, Mr. Patrick has focused on revitalizing and adapting records management practices while implementing well-governed Enterprise Content Management policy on the Joint Staff. Developing record and content capture processes that accommodate emerging web 2.0 tool use and dynamic, collaborative work poses tough challenges—cultural change that is expected to continue.

While on active duty, Mr. Patrick served as Deputy Chief, Information Management Division. He assumed his current position in September 2007 upon retiring from the U.S. Navy. Originally from Chesterfield County, VA, Mr. Patrick currently resides in Lorton, VA with his wife and three children.

Education  
2003-2004 Joint Military Attaché School, Washington DC (included 8 months of full-time Bulgarian language instruction)
2002-2003 Navy Fellow with 45th Senior Seminar at State Department’s Foreign Service Institute in Arlington, VA
2000 Joint and Combined Staff Officer School, Armed Forces Staff College, Norfolk, VA
1996-1997 MA International Relations, Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy, Tufts University, Medford, MA
1982-1986 BA Foreign Affairs, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA

 

 

  
Logistics

DATE:    Thursday, March 25, January 22, 2010

TIME: 7:00 AM Registration, Continental Breakfast, Networking
  7:30 - 8:30AM Presentation and Discussion
  8:30 - 9:00 Networking
     
PLACE:

 

The Universities at Shady Grove

9630  Gudelsky Drive

Building # 2, Room 1012

Rockville, Maryland 20850

Phone 301.738.6059

www.shadygrove.umd.edu

 

PARKING:  Available onsite at no cost

 

METRO:  Shady Grove Metro Station, RED Line:  Transfer to the Ride-on Bus, which goes directly to (USG)  http://www.shadygrove.umd.edu/about/directions/

COST:  AIIM, ARMA, IAC/ACT Member Rate $19, Non-Member Rate $29. 

Note:  Once reserved, cancellations must be received by 9PM Noon, Tuesday, March 23st  at rsvp@nccaiim.org.  AMEX, VISA,  MasterCard, or Discover credit cards are welcome. No shows will be billed.
 

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