About Us
For
more than 100 years the United States Navy has published The
Blue Jackets Manual as a training manual for every Navy recruit and
as a general reference book for the qualified seaman.
In the first chapter which covers naval
customs and courtesy, the manual explains that the only proper response
to a spoken order is: "Aye, aye, sir". This simply but powerfully confirms that the
seaman heard the order, that he understood the order, and that he would
comply with the order. This simple
response closes the information transfer gap between authority and
those under that authority and mitigates the risk that something may
not have been heard, may not have been understood, or may not be
complied with.
We at BLUJACKET were
inspired to use this same general principle when designing our
Internet-based application for Active Knowledge Transfer™.
BLUJACKET distributes information, verifies
that it was received, makes sure that it was understood and gives
management a reasonable expectation that it will be complied with. In BLUJACKET's design, we strove to make sure
that the end result would produce powerful results for businesses of
every size and type yet remain as beautifully simple as the Bluejacket
Manual's now famous instructions. That point at which the seaman
through words and gesture acknowledges his superior's directions is the
"point of compliance".
We invite you to use
BLUJACKET to help your organization
reach its own Point of Compliance.
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Our Team
 BLUJACKET Inc. is a
Silicon Valley-based developer of software-based compliance solutions. BLUJACKET currently maintains offices in the
Silicon Valley, Atlanta, Frankfurt, Liechtenstein and London. The
company's founders had been involved with numerous other companies in
building sales and channel partner organizations and had tried on
numerous occasions to use conventional training and e-learning packages
to convey business-critical information. Most
of these endeavors were somewhat disappointing because we weren't
usually conducting the formal training exercises that are well suited
to delivery using conventional technologies. We
were most often just sending information that we required to know that
had been received, had been read or seen and had been understood. This included "Active knowledge" like price
changes, sales tips, engineering changes, human relations info, and
sales spiffs. Accomplishing this with software that was originally
designed for delivery of courseware just didn't work very well. This is why we designed BLUJACKET to empower
the Active Knowledge Transfer™ that is at the heart of today's
effective organization.
Founders
Gary J. Johnson
brings over 20 years of senior management experience. He is the
founder of ForceField Inc. a service scheduling ASP, formerly the CEO
of Berkeley Software Design, Inc. and was instrumental to its
acquisition by Wind River Systems. Prior to that, he was President of
ClickSoftware, an enterprise service scheduling software provider. Johnson has also held senior sales and
operations positions at SCO, Convergent Technologies, Tandem Computers,
and Fairchild Semiconductor.
Ted George brings over 25 years of
industry experience to Blujacket's team. His experience includes the
successful design, development and delivery of hundreds of software
products and services ranging from operating systems and network
software to web applications. He is the Architect of the BLUJACKET
OnDemand and Enterprise Products. Previously he was Vice President of
Engineering and Co-founder of ForceField, Inc, developing optimized
intelligent scheduling solutions for field service organizations. Prior
to that he was Vice President of Design and Development at OnlineFocus
Inc. providing high-end web services to enterprise customers like
Morgan Stanley, FedEx, and Sun Microsystems. He has also held senior
Software Engineering management positions at InfoSpace, Inc., The Santa
Cruz Operation (SCO), Altos Computer, and Arete Systems Corporation.
Mark Trimue has 25
years of high-tech sales and marketing experience, having held
executive-level sales, marketing and business development positions
with Samna Corporation (acquired by Lotus Development Corporation),
Computone Corporation, Equinox Systems Inc., Berkeley Software Design,
Inc., and ClickSoftware Inc.
Steven
Beedle has more
than 20 years of experience in marketing and communications, with
expertise in markets ranging from Internet/enterprise networking and
enterprise IT to eBusiness and software as a service. Prior to
co-founding ZNA Communications in 1994 with partner Zee Zaballos,
Steven worked for American Express, Hitachi Data Systems, National
Semiconductor and SCO. Steven is managing editor of Blade Systems
Alliance's BladeLetter, and has served as executive editor of Linux
Server Computing magazine and chairman and co-founder of the Santa Cruz
Technology Alliance.
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