You Gotta Start Somewhere
Technologies and Time Machines
Leadership
To NOVA and Beyond
100
Previously the Vice President of IT, this executive is well known for his WWT Line of Business presentation.
Who is Mark Franke?
100
The central focus of our Supply Chain Redesign project, this system shares its name with an exiled program with clairvoyant and cookie baking abilities in the movie "the Matrix"
What is Oracle?
100
Although you might want to be careful Googling it, this WWT acronym represents a set of tools and strategies created to develop and grow our leaders and employees.
What is IML?
100
This energetic astronomical phenomena catastrophically destroys massive stars or white dwarfs
What is a supernovae?
200
This exec started his career at at Telic Corporation, which was later acquired by Computer Sciences Corporation
Who is Joe Koenig?
200
This business intelligence data visualization tool was introduced to WWT by our Professional Services organization and it's name can be defined as "a picturesque grouping of persons or objects; a striking scene"
What is Tableau?
200
Along with "Five Dysfunctions of a Team", this is one of two books considered mandatory reading material for all WWT employees.
What is "Good to Great"?
200
According to the Harvard Business Review, calls for greater collaboration that are left unchecked can lead to to this detrimental effect.
What is "collaboration for collaboration’s sake"?
300
This WWT employee worked his way from intern to executive in less than 14 years
Who is Mike Taylor?
300
This time machine's interior is much bigger than the exterior and can blend in with it's surroundings using a "chameleon circuit"
What is the Tardis?
300
WWT's most valuable asset.
What is "the RIGHT people"?
300
This song's chorus starts with this lyric: "Some day you will find me, caught beneath the landslide"
What is Champagne Supernova?
400
In a recent blog post, this executive stated "if organizations want to innovate, they can’t always think of technology investments in terms of ROI."
Who is Jim Kavanaugh?
400
Credited with coining the phrase "Time Machine", this author published a novel by that name in 1895
Who is H.G Wells?
400
The first step in the WWT Coaching Tool.
What is identify (Clearly identify the issue)?
400
According to a recent NY Times article posted to the NOVA community, not everyone can be a leader, and the world needs these.
What are followers?
500
Starting his career as a programmer at Boeing, this executive still enjoys tinkering with PHP and building home automation software today.
Who is Bob Olwig?
500
This Javascript runtime environment used by WWT IT to build RESTFul APIs processes incoming requests in a loop, called the event loop
What is Node.JS?
500
In a High Performance Organization, the Business Management Process needs to align directly with these two things.
What are Culture & Core Values?
500
This WWT practice manager lead the NOVA 3.0 ATC tour
Who is Ivan Wintersteiger?