Download or read book Measuring Strategic Readiness written by Bradley Martin and published by . This book was released on 2021-07-30 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors explore a more expansive approach to readiness assessments that goes beyond the narrow lens of operational readiness and considers a broader set of dimensions that could affect readiness outcomes.

Download or read book AR 525 30 06 03 2014 ARMY STRATEGIC READINESS Survival Ebooks written by Us Department Of Defense and published by Delene Kvasnicka www.survivalebooks.com. This book was released on with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AR 525-30 06/03/2014 ARMY STRATEGIC READINESS , Survival Ebooks

Download or read book Strategic Readiness written by John C. Redding and published by Jossey-Bass. This book was released on 1994-03-11 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shows executives--anyone concerned with making change happen--how to move beyond the limitations of fixed strategic planning processes and programs to create a flexible, responsive organization that thrives in today's climate of uncertainty: the learning organization. Draws from an extensive study of two hundred change-oriented organizations including Honeywell and Motorola to identify a series of practical actions that can be used immediately to help develop a firm's capacity to learn.

Download or read book Military Readiness written by Richard K. Betts and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout most of American history, U.S. military forces proved unready for the wars that were thrust upon them and suffered costly reverses in early battles. During the Cold War, for the first time, U.S. defense policy tried to maintain high readiness in peacetime. But now, with the Cold War over and defense budgets falling, what will happen to U.S. military forces? Will they revert to a state of unpreparedness or find a new balance? Politicians and military planners alike have found this crucial issue especially difficult to deal with because they have often misunderstood what readiness really means. In this book, security expert Richard Betts surveys problems in developing and measuring combat readiness before, during, and after the Cold War. He analyzes why attempts to maximize it often have counterproductive effects, and how confusions in technical concepts cause political controversy. The book explores conflicts between two objectives that are both vital but work against each other because they compete for resources: operational readiness to fight immediately, and structural readiness—the number of organized units that increase military power, but require time during a crisis to gear up for combat. Betts also discusses the problem brought on by the Cold War and plunging defense budgets: mobilization readiness—the plans and arrangements needed to shorten the time for recreating a large military if it once again becomes necessary. Betts offers new ideas for understanding the dilemmas and tradeoffs that underlie debates on how readiness should be maintained in peacetime, and he explores the strategic consequences of different choices.

Download or read book Managing Military Readiness written by Institute for National Strategic Studies (U.S.) and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on 2017 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This paper presents an analytic framework that builds from previous work to yield the systematic and defendable readiness analysis that must underlie decisions ranging from budget allocation to force employment and even strategy development. To manage readiness, the Department of Defense must balance the supply and demand of deployable forces around the world. The readiness of an individual unit is the result of a series of time-intensive force generation processes that ultimately combine qualified people, working equipment, and unit training to produce military capabilities suitable for executing the defense strategy. While this discussion is a basic tenet of production theory, it had not been commonly applied to readiness management until recently. The important point here is that understanding how the readiness of military capabilities is generated provides the clearest picture of the current readiness status and whether that status is likely to change over time. Furthermore, it provides the best shot at identifying effective management policies to ensure that DOD can generate the capabilities that the Nation asks of it. This paper argues that traditional unit-level readiness metrics are useful as part of a larger readiness management construct, but by themselves they do not provide enough information to proactively manage strategically. This approach provides a clear explanation of the causes of readiness degradations and options for how to mitigate them that can be traced to precise resource investments"--Page 1.

Download or read book Strategic Planning for Results written by Sandra Nelson and published by American Library Association. This book was released on 2008 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The PLA Results Series has long served to help public librarians envision, evaluate, and respond to community needs with distinctive programs and services. Building from this proven model, Strategic Planning for Results is the fully revised version of Planning for Results, the foundational book in this groundbreaking series. Sandra Nelson, senior editor of the Results Series, focuses on the essential steps to draft a results-driven, strategic planning process that libraries can complete over the course of four months, regardless of organizational structure or size. Reflecting on the current planning environment for public libraries, Nelson makes the case for strategic rather than long-term planning and includes a wealth of information about understanding and managing the change process to help staff Assess the change-readiness of the library and preparing staff to implement forthcoming changes Simplify data collection and decision-making processes through the use of 14 reproducible workforms Identify service priority options and reach agreement as a group Successfully present and communicate within their library Including the newly revised and adopted Public Library Service Responses, along with case studies, workforms, and tool kits, Strategic Planning for Results offers librarians a wealth of ideas to effectively meet changing community needs.

Download or read book Army Strategic Readiness written by Department of the Army Headquarters, Department of the Army and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-07-06 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This regulation establishes the Army Strategic Readiness process and provides responsibilities for its execution.

Download or read book State of Readiness written by Joseph F. Paris Jr. and published by Greenleaf Book Group. This book was released on 2017-05-16 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accelerated Strategy Development and Execution The company of today has its supply chains and finances stretched further around the globe than ever before while simultaneously having increasing pressures to drive value across a complicated and fluid set of metrics and deliver innovations, products, and services more quickly and reliably. The competitive advantage belongs to the companies that can quicken their vision-building and strategy-execution efforts—the ones that can identify challenges more swiftly and accelerate their decision making so they are better able to formulate and deploy responses decisively yet with greater agility. To successfully accomplish this, companies will have to prioritize creating a culture of leadership that strengthens communication skills and emphasizes systems thinking by building capacity and capability that cuts across the business smokestacks and permeates the entire organization. In State of Readiness, Joseph F. Paris Jr. shares over thirty years of international business and operations experience and guides C-suite executives and business-operations and -improvement specialists on a path toward operational excellence, the organizational capability and situational awareness that is attained as the enterprise reaches a state of alignment for pursuing its strategies. In doing so, create a corporate culture that is committed to the continuous and deliberate improvement of company performance and the circumstances of those who work there—a precursor to becoming a high-performance organization.

Download or read book Military Readiness written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book NATO Doctrine Strategy and Readiness written by Charles W. Harper and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Defense Planning and Readiness of North Korea written by Ryo Hinata-Yamaguchi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-04-26 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How has North Korea developed and managed its military readiness to achieve its strategic ends? Hinata-Yamaguchi analyzes North Korea’s defense planning by looking at how political, economic, and societal factors affect the Korean People’s Army’s (KPA) readiness and strategies. He answers four key questions: How have the internal and external factors shaped North Korea’s security strategy? How do the political, economic, societal, and environmental factors impact North Korea’s defense planning? What are North Korea’s defense planning dilemmas and how do they impact the KPA’s readiness? What are the key implications for regional security and the strategies against North Korea? This analysis, drawing on various Korean, English, Japanese, and Chinese sources on North Korea and military affairs, will be of great value to strategists and policy analysts as well as scholars of East Asian security issues.

Download or read book Strategic Planning For Dummies written by Erica Olsen and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-03-03 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you’re starting a new business or planning your business’s future, there are plenty of things you should take into account. Strategic Planning For Dummies covers everything you need to know to develop a plan for building and maintaining a competitive advantage — no matter what business you’re in. Written by Erica Olsen, founder and President of a business development firm that helps entrepreneurial-minded businesses plan for a successful future, this handy guide covers all the basics, including: How a strategic plan is different than a business plan Establishing a step-based planning process Planning for and encouraging growth Taking a long-view of your organization Evaluating past performance Defining and refining your mission, values, and vision Sizing up your current situation Examining your industry landscape Setting your strategic priorities Planning for unknown contingencies If you’re in business, you have to plan for everything — especially if you intend your business to grow. Whether you’re planning for a small business, large conglomerate, nonprofit, or even a government agency, this book has the planning specifics you need for your organization. Step-by-step, you’ll learn how to lay the foundations for a plan, understand how your plan will affect your business, form planning teams, discover what your strengths are, see where you are, and, finally, plan where you’re going. And there’s much more: Learn to analyze business trends that will determine your business’s future Set measurable, realistic goals that you can plan for and achieve Make strategic planning a habitual part of the organization Prioritize multiple strategies that you can implement simultaneously Set a defining vision for the organization that guides all your planning and strategy This friendly, simple guide puts the power of strategic planning in the palm of your hand. For small businesses that can’t afford to hire strategic planning consultants, it’s even more imperative. Careful, constant planning is the only way to handle an uncertain business future. With this book, you’ll have all the step-by-step guidance you need to ensure you’re ready for anything that comes.

Download or read book Strategic Readiness written by Timothy Griffith and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Today, the American people are faced with more challenges than they have ever been faced with before. Challenges that are so complex, diverse, intertwined, and further complicated by factors such as globalization, climate change, authoritarianism, and technology that it is becoming extremely difficult to predict what the future of national security will hold. Simultaneously, the difficulty in establishing and maintaining a consistently resourced and coordinated strategy is muddled by partisan politics, annual budgets, a 4-year Presidential election cycle, and an unstable and unpredictable security environment. It is crucial that the United States, specifically the Department of Defense (DoD), develops a Strategic Readiness methodology by which its most important security strategies can be assessed periodically against the objectives that define them in a way that is credible to the whole of government. Strategic readiness is the comprehensive assessment of not only operational readiness data but the holistic view of how the DoD is meeting the objectives of the National Defense Strategy. Today, the Defense Department focuses their readiness efforts on individual problem sets, centered around U.S. strategic competitors. These problem sets encompass primary and supporting operational plans that are not always resource and readiness informed. Readiness efforts are also focused on establishing readiness goals based on supply versus demand from the Combatant Commanders. It is evidently clear after reviewing the current policies and procedures in place that the DoD lacks a Strategic Readiness methodology. The current readiness system is myopic and puts too much focus on operational and tactical level concerns. Research has shown that the methodology by which readiness is reported and tracked is solely based on objective metrics and plans. The current assessment methodology is effective at assessing operational readiness, but it was not designed to address strategic issues such as long-term strategic competition, rapid dispersion of technologies, and new concepts of warfare. It is important to understand that readiness defines not only the material capabilities to wage war but the non-material capabilities to train and equip forces and more importantly, the education and support mechanisms that build a resilient and ready force. The operational aspect, which is where the DoD focuses its readiness efforts, only represents the surface of the true definition of readiness. This paper offers a novel methodology to holistically assess strategic readiness. The methodology described in this paper facilitates the analysis of seven strategic readiness dimensions including: operational readiness, lethality, global posture, mobilization readiness, sustainment readiness, resiliency, and allies and partners. By assessing them individually and then collectively, against the National Defense Strategy objectives, a holistic assessment can be published and utilized to assess the DoD’s effectiveness at meeting their overall strategy. This methodology provides the DoD a dynamic tool that is easily modifiable as strategic objectives change or as the strategy changes based on real world events or changes in political administrations. More importantly, the DoD can use the results of the assessment to course correct the strategy and refine their approaches to meeting national security objectives. It is imperative that the DoD takes every step necessary to maintain an advantage against near-peer adversaries like China. Every dollar spent, training hour utilized, and decision delayed risks the ability of the U.S. to compete in the future. Without making corrections now to the comprehensive understanding of readiness, the DoD will be behind in great power competition for years to come. Due to the bureaucracy of how the government and DoD functions, decisions made now will have an impact for decades to come. Evidence of this is the 20-year acquisition timeline for the F-35 and multiple failed programs, mis-managed from their onset and by many measures, an inefficient use of government resources now under fire from the House Armed Services Committee Chairman. By not making corrections along the way and adjusting resources to meet higher priority needs and requirements, the DoD will not be as effective as possible. A feedback mechanism with actionable information is necessary to aid in this area and assist senior leaders in steering the department towards success. I recommend that the DoD adopts such a strategic readiness assessment methodology, built off the current statutory requirements for operational readiness. At the highest level, Congress should amend the National Defense Authorization Act to include updates to Title 10, sections 117 and 153, and mandate, at a minimum, an annual Strategic Readiness Assessment. This assessment should be briefed to the House and Senate Armed Services Committees prior to annual budget debates and in conjunction with SECDEF and CJCS testimony. The intent of the assessment would be to inform budget decisions with respect to strategy and provide actionable information for senior leaders and congress. The Undersecretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness (OSD P&R) would be primarily responsible for authoring the assessment and would rely heavily on other experts to inform the assessment. Along with the Strategic Readiness Assessment, OSD P&R should host bi-annual strategy development conference to review the strategy and provide updates to senior leaders and congress. Visualization of the assessment is critically important in ensuring that senior leaders understand the information and the impact of decisions made daily. Using the current Defense Readiness Reporting System Strategic, I recommend that a strategic readiness tool be implemented and employed in a dashboard type format, and example which you will see in Chapter 4. This program will allow stakeholders to implement their assessments, and using artificial intelligence, see the impact of not only operational decisions but strategic decisions. The DoD needs to take advantage of every opportunity to stay ahead of a rising Chinese global power. Every domain, every decision, and every task will have a role in the strategic race. It is imperative that the DoD thinks innovatively about how it measures strategic success and how it uses data to inform tactical and operational decisions that may unknowingly have strategic impacts. The comprehensive strategic readiness of the DoD is an area of immense value if measured and assessed honestly. After demonstrating effective utilization of the strategic readiness assessment methodology, the DoD should share its assessment and results with other government agencies such as the Department of State and the Department of Treasury to truly reinforce the whole of government approach that is so desperately needed in great power competition."--Executive summary.

Download or read book Army Strategic Readiness written by Sean M. Herron and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For many years, the Army's readiness assessment system was an aggregation of readiness assessments from individual units through multiple hierarchical levels to the strategic level. Assessment of strategic capabilities such as the organic industrial base, deployment and sustainment systems, and the training base were conducted separately and not integrated or aligned with resource decisions. Army Regulation 525-xx-B, Army Strategic Readiness, is being developed as a more comprehensive method for conducting a readiness assessment at the strategic level. This paper first examines the current readiness process and then reviews the major readiness enhancements in the Army's draft regulation. From this assessment it provides a method to improve AR 525-xx-B by directly linking readiness to resourcing decisions using an analytical framework. This framework will result in a more comprehensive and consistent assessment that communicates the degree of readiness achieved with the resources provided by Congress and the American people.

Download or read book Rethinking Readiness written by Stephen Watts and published by RAND Corporation. This book was released on 2024-06-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors offer a framework for how the U.S. Department of Defense might conduct a strategic readiness assessment and apply it to two defense policy issues: munitions procurement and planning modernization schedules across services.

Download or read book Military readiness reports to Congress provide few details on deficiencies and solutions report to congressional requesters written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1998 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: