Download or read book An Acquisition Strategy Process and Organization for Innovative Systems written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a widespread belief that in the future some military threats might be quite different from those of the recent past-requiring a response by innovative system and employment concepts. Our present weapon-system acquisition process was designed for a different environment than the one that exists today and seems ill suited to meet demands posed by the apparent expansion of unconventional and asymmetric threats. In response to this new environment, recent calls for reform have placed special emphasis on the need for an acquisition process that is better able to satisfy the need for truly innovative system concepts. We outline a suggested acquisition strategy, process, and organization that would operate in conjunction with the present process, and that is specially designed for effective development of novel and more risky system concepts. We describe this strategy in enough detail to identify its key elements, suggesting how it could work and why we believe it would provide needed capabilities not present in our current acquisition process.
Download or read book An Acquisition Strategy Process and Organization for Innovative Systems written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a widespread belief that in the future some military threats might be quite different from those of the recent past-requiring a response by innovative system and employment concepts. Our present weapon-system acquisition process was designed for a different environment than the one that exists today and seems ill suited to meet demands posed by the apparent expansion of unconventional and asymmetric threats. In response to this new environment, recent calls for reform have placed special emphasis on the need for an acquisition process that is better able to satisfy the need for truly innovative system concepts. We outline a suggested acquisition strategy, process, and organization that would operate in conjunction with the present process, and that is specially designed for effective development of novel and more risky system concepts. We describe this strategy in enough detail to identify its key elements, suggesting how it could work and why we believe it would provide needed capabilities not present in our current acquisition process.
Download or read book A Guide to Innovation Processes and Solutions for Government written by Gregory C. McLaughlin DBA and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2015-08-25 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a roadmap for successful implementation of innovation for organizations working as subcontractors or suppliers for the federal government. With a focus on the federal sector, it details tools and processes that can make significant improvements in how the federal sector handles innovation opportunities. Presenting insights that can help readers bridge the gap between supplier and customer, the book includes many examples and a case study that illustrate the application of the methodology. It also includes process flowcharts, tools, and strategies for innovation within an agency or organization.
Download or read book Coordinating Requirements Budgets and Acquisition written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Panel on Defense Acquisition Reform and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Buying Military Transformation written by Peter Dombrowski and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2006-09-26 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Buying Military Transformation, Peter Dombrowski and Eugene Gholz analyze the United States military's ongoing effort to capitalize on information technology. New ideas about military doctrine derived from comparisons to Internet Age business practices can be implemented only if the military buys technologically innovative weapons systems. Buying Military Transformation examines how political and military leaders work with the defense industry to develop the small ships, unmanned aerial vehicles, advanced communications equipment, and systems-of-systems integration that will enable the new military format. Dombrowski and Gholz's analysis integrates the political relationship between the defense industry and Congress, the bureaucratic relationship between the firms and the military services, and the technical capabilities of different types of businesses. Many government officials and analysts believe that only entrepreneurial start-up firms or leaders in commercial information technology markets can produce the new, network-oriented military equipment. But Dombrowski and Gholz find that the existing defense industry will be best able to lead military-technology development, even for equipment modeled on the civilian Internet. The U.S. government is already spending billions of dollars each year on its "military transformation" program-money that could be easily misdirected and wasted if policymakers spend it on the wrong projects or work with the wrong firms. In addition to this practical implication, Buying Military Transformation offers key lessons for the theory of "Revolutions in Military Affairs." A series of military analysts have argued that major social and economic changes, like the shift from the Agricultural Age to the Industrial Age, inherently force related changes in the military. Buying Military Transformation undermines this technologically determinist claim: commercial innovation does not directly determine military innovation; instead, political leadership and military organizations choose the trajectory of defense investment. Militaries should invest in new technology in response to strategic threats and military leaders' professional judgments about the equipment needed to improve military effectiveness. Commercial technological progress by itself does not generate an imperative for military transformation. Clear, cogent, and engaging, Buying Military Transformation is essential reading for journalists, legislators, policymakers, and scholars.
Download or read book Securing the MRAP written by James Hasik and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2021-08-16 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dwight D. Eisenhower once quipped, “You will not find it difficult to prove that battles, campaigns, and even wars have been won or lost primarily because of logistics.” Military acquisition and procurement—that is, how a nation manages investments, technologies, programs, and support—is critical to wartime success or failure. When unexpected battlefield problems arise, how do the government, the military, and industry work together to ensure effective solutions? During the American counterinsurgent campaign in Iraq, the improvised explosive device emerged as a disruptive and devastating threat. As Humvees, and their occupants, were ripped apart by IEDs, it was clear that new solutions had to be found. These solutions already existed but had not been procured, highlighting the need for more effective marketing to the military by industry. The ultimate successful response—the mine-resistant, ambush-protected vehicle, or MRAP—required years of entrepreneurial marketing by the defense industry. In Securing the MRAP: Lessons Learned in Marketing and Military Procurement, James Hasik explores how these vehicles, which the American military mostly rejected despite the great need for them, eventually came to be adopted as the Pentagon’s top procurement priority. Hasik traces the story of the MRAP from the early 1970s to the future of mine-resistant vehicles on the battlefields of tomorrow. An important contribution to the seemingly disparate fields of marketing and defense policy, Securing the MRAP is an eye-opening revelation to defense industrialists, military officers, and government officials who want to understand how to avoid another IED-Humvee debacle.
Download or read book From Strategic Planning to Strategic Management written by H. Igor Ansoff and published by Wiley-Interscience. This book was released on 1976 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monograph of articles on strategic management techniques - covers the study of organizational goals, the personal development of the strategic manager and his recruitment, management development and placement, etc., and includes case studies of strategic management in Hungary, Japan, etc. Diagrams and references.
Download or read book A Guide to Innovation Processes and Solutions for Government written by Gregory C. McLaughlin DBA and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2015-08-25 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a roadmap for successful implementation of innovation for organizations working as subcontractors or suppliers for the federal government. With a focus on the federal sector, it details tools and processes that can make significant improvements in how the federal sector handles innovation opportunities. Presenting insights that can help readers bridge the gap between supplier and customer, the book includes many examples and a case study that illustrate the application of the methodology. It also includes process flowcharts, tools, and strategies for innovation within an agency or organization.
Download or read book MR written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Organizing for a Complex World written by Guy Ben-Ari and published by CSIS. This book was released on 2009 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mastering the Acquirer s Innovation Dilemma written by Valerie Bannert-Thurner and published by Springer. This book was released on 2005-11-01 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acquisitions are increasingly used to source capabilities, but often without success. Based on best practices from companies such as HP, IBM, GE and Intel, the book outlines the key factors impacting innovativeness post acquisition. These underpin a strategic acquisition and integration management concept. The author provides tools to support managers in their selection of the appropriate target, conducting a technology due diligence, and in choosing and managing the right integration approach.
Download or read book The Innovation Systems Cycle written by H. James Harrington and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2019-09-26 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Currently, the prime focus for US business plans should not be on the manufacturing process design and delivery processes, but on greatly improving innovation leadership, design engineering capability, and sales and marketing innovation. These three areas have been sadly lacking significant performance improvement during the past 20 years. The magic word for US business is "simplification." Most of the books written to date focus on the solution development aspect of the Innovation System Cycle, which is less than 15% of the total innovative system. Focusing on solution development is only the start -- the rest of the innovation system cycle is what turns an idea into a profitable business. The techniques in this book are directed at key tasks across the innovative process, such as maximizing quality, productivity, maintainability, usability, and reliability, while focusing on reducing the product cycle time and costs within the innovative process. This book uses more than 50 different approaches/concepts, which leads the reader in a very simple method for understanding, establishing, and effectively using an innovative system to provide a significant marketing advantage. Previous books have focused on what to do; however, this book focuses on how to do it. It transforms a complicated complex system into easy-to-use and understand methodology.
Download or read book The Application of Reengineering to the Acquisition Planning Process for a Major Weapon System written by Mark E. St. Mortiz and published by . This book was released on 1997-06-01 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Effective and timely acquisition planning is vital to the successful procurement of a major weapon system. However, the underlying process may not be well understood or defined, is labor intensive and heavily bureaucratic. Efforts to improve the planning function for a major weapon system traditionally focus on the people and organizational aspects without showing any real reductions in time or increases in productivity. New approaches, such as business process reengineering, now show considerable promise in dramatically reducing cycle times, especially when combined with information technology as an enabler. This paper explores the use of information technology in the development of an acquisition plan at a major systems command and suggests that process innovations of 50% or more may be possible. To accomplish this improvement, the process of developing an acquisition plan is redesigned using database and workflow systems as enablers to the process.
Download or read book Innovative Development written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Primer to Strategy Process Research written by Christoph Lechner and published by Cuvillier Verlag. This book was released on 2006 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Systems of Innovation written by Charles Edquist and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The systems of innovation approach is considered by many to be a useful analytical approach for better understanding innovation processes as well as the production and distribution of knowledge in the economy. It is an appropriate framework for the empirical study of innovations in their contexts and is relevant for policy makers. This text is the result of the work within an international inter-disciplinary network or "working seminar" with the task of building a more solid and sophisticated conceptual and theoretical foundation for the continued study of innovations in a systemic context. The book has three parts. The first presents an overview and tries to work out some conceptual problems. In the second, the systems of innovation approach is related to innovation theory. Part three is devoted to increasing understanding of the functioning and dynamics of systems of innovation. There is also an introduction where the genesis and anatomy of different systems of innovation approaches are discussed and where the systems of innovation approach is characterized in nine dimensions.
Download or read book Selected Rand Abstracts written by Rand Corporation and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes publications previously listed in the supplements to the Index of selected publications of the Rand Corporation (Oct. 1962-Feb. 1963)
