Strategic Planning And The U S Air Force

Author : Michael J. Mazarr,Jeffrey Eggers,Diana Gehlhaus Carew,Caitlin Lee,Raphael S. Cohen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11
Category : History
ISBN : 0833098322

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Strategic Planning and the U.S. Air Force by Michael J. Mazarr,Jeffrey Eggers,Diana Gehlhaus Carew,Caitlin Lee,Raphael S. Cohen Pdf

"The U.S. Air Force has embarked on a new round of strategic planning, under the auspices of its 2015 Strategic Master Plan (SMP), to help set the future direction of the service. Refining the Air Force's strategic planning process may help the service align itself to its environment and keep key initiatives on track. To offer the Air Force actionable findings on strategic planning, we surveyed a number of major topics and literatures for common themes and findings. The basic concept and approach of the SMP has promise. Our review of history and theory supports the idea that a consistent, ongoing planning structure would offer important advantages to any military service. Yet we also found that the actual design and execution of the SMP could potentially obstruct, rather than facilitate, these objectives. The SMP retains many elements of an old-style strategic planning process — forecasting an identifiable future, building an exhaustive, pre-set plan, and identifying hundreds of specific tasks — which creates a focus on execution over creative and flexible responses."--Publisher's description.

Author : Michael Barzelay,Colin H. Campbell
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2003-07-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780815796077

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Preparing for the Future by Michael Barzelay,Colin H. Campbell Pdf

While the Clinton Administration and federal agencies were busy making government cost less and work better in the near-term, the United States Air Force was regularly visualizing the competencies needed to assure the organization's long-term effectiveness. As a result of steady efforts to prepare for the future conducted under successive secretaries and chiefs of staff, the Air Force has developed a distinctive approach to strategic planning. This approach is fundamentally concerned with ensuring that the organization's future capabilities support effective performance of future tasks. Such tasks are shaped by ever-changing policy objectives and circumstances of implementation. After eight years, the Air Force has not only successfully refined its distinctive approach to strategic planning, but has also leveraged change in programmatic decisions, human resource management, and operational technologies. This study provides an inside look at how the Air Force came to formulate and declare its "strategic intent" for developing the organization's capabilities over a timeline of more than twenty years. Air Force strategic intent is not a plan, but a shared commitment to strengthening specific core competencies and critical future capabilities. Michael Barzelay and Colin Campbell reveal how one of the nation's most significant public organizations has reassessed its own strategic intent. Drawing lessons from the Air Force experience, this book provides a significant contribution to public management research on innovation and executive leadership. One key lesson is that preparing for the future is a responsibility that organizations can discharge effectively if they combine insights with practical knowledge of executive leadership and the dynamics of policy change. Preparing for the Future provides a fresh argument about innovation and leadership in public management, while breaking new ground in the analysis of managerial practices, such as strategic v

Author : National Research Council,Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences,Air Force Studies Board,Committee on Improving the Effectiveness and Efficiency of U.S. Air Force Pre-Acquisition Development Planning
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2014-11-10
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780309313681

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Development Planning by National Research Council,Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences,Air Force Studies Board,Committee on Improving the Effectiveness and Efficiency of U.S. Air Force Pre-Acquisition Development Planning Pdf

The development and application of technology has been an essential part of U.S. airpower, leading to a century of air supremacy. But that developmental path has rarely been straight, and it has never been smooth. Only the extraordinary efforts of exceptional leadership - in the Air Forces and the wider Department of Defense, in science and in industry - have made the triumphs of military airpower possible. Development Planning provides recommendations to improve development planning for near-term acquisition projects, concepts not quite ready for acquisition, corporate strategic plans, and training of acquisition personnel. This report reviews past uses of development planning by the Air Force, and offers an organizational construct that will help the Air Force across its core functions. Developmental planning, used properly by experienced practitioners, can provide the Air Force leadership with a tool to answer the critical question, Over the next 20 years in 5-year increments, what capability gaps will the Air Force have that must be filled? Development planning will also provide for development of the workforce skills needed to think strategically and to defectively define and close the capability gap. This report describes what development planning could be and should be for the Air Force.

Author : Raphael S. Cohen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 0833096974

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Air Force Strategic Planning by Raphael S. Cohen Pdf

This report examines the history of strategic planning efforts in the U.S. Air Force. Ultimately, this report argues that the Air Force still needs strategic planning, but perhaps not in its current form.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Military planning
ISBN : 9781428982079

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Creating Strategic Vision by Anonim Pdf

Author : Maurice Matloff,Edwin Marion Snell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1953
Category : Combined operations (Military science)
ISBN : SRLF:AA0007075963

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Strategic Planning for Coalition Warfare, 1941-1942 [--1943-1944] by Maurice Matloff,Edwin Marion Snell Pdf

Author : Air Force Flight Test Center (U.S.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Strategic planning
ISBN : UOM:39015025230924

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Strategic Plan by Air Force Flight Test Center (U.S.) Pdf

Author : Bryan K. Hasty,Air force inst of tech wright-pattersonafb oh school of logistics and acquisition management
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 73 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1998-09-01
Category : Decision support systems
ISBN : 1423557816

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Effects of Group Support Systems on United States Air Force Strategic Planning Efforts by Bryan K. Hasty,Air force inst of tech wright-pattersonafb oh school of logistics and acquisition management Pdf

Strategic planning at an Air Force wing is a team based activity that offers many advantages to the Air Force. But, it is clear there are still questions about how to properly conduct strategic planning to produce the highest quality plans in the most effective and efficient manner. To answer this question, the Air Force created a research project aimed at discovering new methods to improve strategic planning at Air Force wing levels using a computer- mediated communication system. The research project's goal is to apply collaborative processes and technologies, such as Group Support Systems (GSS), to improve the quality of the strategic planning process. This thesis validated the measurement instruments and analyzed the data from one of those studies. The thorough evaluation of the measurement instruments led to validated scales that could be valuable for future use. The analysis shows a significant increase in overall plan quality, and increased participant satisfaction with both the process employed and the product created when the groups used a GSS instead of traditional face-to-face methods. These results lend support to the continued fielding of such systems to support the decision making process for these types of problems.

Author : Maurice Matloff,Edwin M. Snell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1953
Category : Strategy
ISBN : OSU:32435060838455

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Strategic Planning for Coalition Warfare, 1941-1942 by Maurice Matloff,Edwin M. Snell Pdf

A description of wartime national planning and military strategy as they affected the missions and dispositions of the U.S. Army in the defensive phase of coalition warfare.

Author : Maurice Matloff,Edwin Marion Snell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1953
Category : Military planning
ISBN : UOM:39015041888432

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Strategic Planning for Coalition Warfare, 1941-1942 by Maurice Matloff,Edwin Marion Snell Pdf

A description of wartime national planning and military strategy as they affected the missions and dispositions of the U.S. Army in the defensive phase of coalition warfare.

Author : Maurice Matloff,Edwin Marion Snell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 670 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1953
Category : Strategy
ISBN : WISC:89003638707

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Strategic Planning for Coalition Warfare: 1943-1944 by Maurice Matloff,Edwin Marion Snell Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:227895972

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Defining a Common Planning Framework for the Air Force by Anonim Pdf

This research was undertaken at the request of the U.S. Air Force's Strategic Planning Directorate. The task objective was to develop and help implement a common Air Force planning framework based on the strategies-to-tasks (STT)framework. Within the Air Force, the resourcing requirements and recommended allocations are developed within the Major Commands (MAJCOMs), and the Headquarters Air Force uses the Corporate Structure and the Air Force Board of Directors to look across all Air Force requirements and set institutional priorities. The purpose of this research was to develop a common planning framework that could extend across the Air Force, allow the corporate Air Force to develop and adjudicate requirements and resourcing options, and link to the external environment. The Directorate specifically asked that the framework incorporate the Air Force vision and capture nonoperational demands, and that the STT methodology provide the foundation for the framework.

Author : Maurice Matloff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Strategy
ISBN : UOM:39015010453937

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Strategic Planning for Coalition Warfare, 1943-1944 by Maurice Matloff Pdf

Author : Air Force Flight Test Center (U.S.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 27 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Strategic planning
ISBN : OCLC:25614982

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Strategic Plan by Air Force Flight Test Center (U.S.) Pdf

Author : Harry R. Borowski
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UCR:31210024769398

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Military Planning in the Twentieth Century by Harry R. Borowski Pdf

The essays, commentaries, and speeches which form this volume were presented at the Eleventh Military History Symposium, held at the United States Air Force Academy on 10-12 October 1984. This conference is a biennial event sponsored jointly by the Department of History and the Association of Graduates of the United States Air Force Academy. Begun in 1967, the series seeks to address problems in military history which have received limited attention and to provide a forum in which scholars may present the results of their research. In this manner we hope to stimulate and encourage interest in military history among civilian and military scholars, members of the armed forces, and the cadets of the United States Air Force Academy.