Of the products that have been recalled in recent years, most were first approved by the 510(k) process (see chart on previous page).

ECONOMIST: Medical technology

Now, Mr. Johnson is in the process of updating a chart he published in 2010 entitled "A Visual History of Daft Punk Helmets, " which diagrams the subtle evolution of helmets worn by the band.

WSJ: Fans Lose Their Heads in Pursuit of Daft Punk Helmets

In May, the U.S. Justice Department's inspector general issued a report on the watch-list process, including a flow chart describing how anyone suspected of terrorist ties passes through a series of lists, the most serious of which includes the Transportation Security Administration's no-fly list.

CNN: Air terror suspect was in database, not watch list

The answer is social computing, which views a company not as a static org chart and a number of interconnected process flows but rather as a social network with ad-hoc and ever changing relationships and interactions.

FORBES: Connect

In other words, his approach to investing was to construct stories so that the chart fit his expectations, and in the process, our investing friend may have put his portfolio at risk.

FORBES: The Irresistible Nature of Trading

The challenge that many companies have when attempting to create a data driven culture is that the glamorous part, the chart and graph at the end of the process, is really about 10 percent or less of the work.

FORBES: Ideas for Solving the 'Data' Problem First, the 'Big' Problem Second: The Pentaho Way

Understand what happened between the meeting by which this date was originally discussed, what happened in the process moving forward was the ramp up of troops actually happened faster than the original chart that the Pentagon had.

WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing