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NATIONAL BUSINESS CENTER PROFILE
ODTAA – One Darn Thing After Another |
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| By Robert Scheibel |
Robert Scheibel
NBC CIO/Assistant Director, Information Technology
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Terrence, an educated African slave who lived in Greece more than two thousand years ago, has been credited by some critics with inventing the literary concept of a plot. Terrence’s plays were always action filled, his characters always moved rapidly from crisis to crises, some things were planned, some weren’t, there was a wild scramble, but in the end, all turned out OK. This series of events, which sounds like many of our own lives, was deemed: ODTAA – One Darn Thing After Another. Come to think of it, ODTAA perfectly describes Information Technology (IT).
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For NBC’s IT area, the last few years have been action packed, essentially ODTAA: the Y2K crises, data center consolidation, Internet shutdowns, IT security, new clients, aviation and fire support, enterprise architecture, Web exploitation, capital planning, e-Pay, Lines of Business, MIB data center move to the ESC, FBMS hosting, etc, etc. It has never ended. In fact the rate of change and the pressures on the IT community are at an all time high. The people on the NBC team, with Tim as our leader, withstood this onslaught of ODTAA and made it happen. This is NBC’s legacy, this is Tim’s legacy.
And what does the future hold? Rapid change, emerging technologies, new business processes, centralization and consolidation of infrastructure, new skills, cross-servicing on a scale we never dreamed of, service-oriented architectures, organizational transformation, and with all this: ever increasing demands and even more business transformation. The NBC is uniquely positioned within the federal government for the future. Time will tell if we succeed. But, with our experience with ODTAA, with new leadership on the horizon, don’t bet against the NBC.
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