Are any of your commands using Slack as an avenue of communication to set/accomplish tasks due to the lack of automation?
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Why not just have them use their personal laptops to remote in?
http://www.acsim.army.mil/articles/remoteaccess.html
That way you can keep everything on your original unit SharePoint and systems of record instead of having to move it back and forth from a third party vendor?
Additionally, I have guys all over the world so Slack would allow ease of access for those detachments to their rear detachments.
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I take it he was involved in that Sigma Six stuff I'd read of for lean manufacturing, perhaos?
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