Email Improvements: Gain Five Percent Labor Hours with Better Communication

Abstract

A number of methods and some software tools are examined that are proven to reduce the amount of time spent on email by an average of two hours per week per person, while at the same time increasing communications effectiveness. Improvement to Arnold Engineering Development Center (AEDC) Email communications would provide a five percent increase in available Arnold Engineering Development Center (AEDC) engineering labor hours. If used for additional, up front, life cycle systems engineering for improved requirements definition and analysis of alternatives, the ?cost avoidance? engineering hours could be used to significantly reduce the cost of performing ground testing. More engineering hours at no additional cost could be used to design and implement enterprise (shared functionality/services) vs. organization or location specific (non shared) solutions, leading to lower life cycle cost, more flexible, and a smaller amount and variety of hardware, software, and processes.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 30, 2009
Accession Number
ADA588655

Entities

People

  • Klaus Schug

Organizations

  • Arnold Engineering Development Complex

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Cyber
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Contracts
  • Costs
  • Cycles
  • Department Of Defense
  • Electronic Mail
  • Engineering
  • Engineers
  • Government Procurement
  • Governments
  • Information Overload
  • Life Cycle Costs
  • Life Cycles
  • Mobile Devices
  • Systems Engineering

Fields of Study

  • Computer science
  • Engineering

Readers

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  • Economics
  • Software Engineering.