Tom chaired the interdepartmental committee that prepared guidelines for Australian Government agencies on electronic document management. Insight '98 is endorsed by the Australian Computer Society. This ability to access information from military and civilian sources throughout the world gives Blue Ridge a global command and control capability unparalleled in Naval history. The Blue Ridge is essentially a floating web server. Military personnel sit at PCs and laptops, using mostly ordinary office automation and internet software.
Equipment is tied down using webbing straps, rack mounting and in some cases adhesive tape.
We are in the middle of a revolution in the way organisations operate. That revolution is the Internet. One aspect of the change is that computer applications become more standardised. What once required an expensive new system design and development by experts, can now be done with low cost standard components, downloaded from the 'net. However, the essential ingredient is still to know what your business is and how to use the technology to achieve it.