What the Army needs to know to align its operational and institutional activities
As the U.S. Army transforms its operating force, inevitably the institutional Army-the "generating force" that fills and sustains the Army's combat units-must change as well. The Army must transform its institutional activities to (1) align them with operating forces in ways that impr...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Santa Monica, CA :
RAND
2007.
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| Edición: | 1st ed |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009433087006719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Preface; Contents; Figures; Tables; Summary; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Chapter One - Introduction; Some Important Words; Road Map; Chapter Two - The Institutional Army and Its Place in the U.S. Army; Alternative Definitions of the Institutional Army; Military Leadership and the Institutional Army; Production Relationships in the U.S. Army; How Changes in Priorities Could Affect InstitutionalActivities; Summary; Chapter Three - Leadership Views on Change in the Institutional Army; High-Level Priorities Reflected in the Army PostureStatement; Priorities in the Army Campaign Plan
- What to Emphasize in the Institutional ArmySummary; Chapter Four - Translating Leadership Priorities into Metrics; Roles of Metrics in the Alignment of the InstitutionalArmy; 1. Performance of the Operating Force; 2. Outputs of the Institutional Army; 3. Stakeholders Who Care About the Outputs of theInstitutional Army; 4. Attributes of Institutional Army Outputs Relevant toStakeholders; 5. Key Subprocesses of an Institutional Army ActivityThat Help Generate a Flow of Output Today; 6. Formal Initiatives to Improve the Performance ofInstitutional Army Activities
- 7. Key Inputs to an Institutional Army ActivityFrom Questions to Metrics; Applying These Metrics to Support Formal ChangeManagement; Relationship of Value Chain Approach to the StrategicManagement System; Summary; Chapter Five - Medical Services; The Institutional Army Portion of AMEDD; A Map of IA-Medical Activities That Links TheirPerformance to Operational Goals; Critical IA-Medical Outputs and Associated Metrics; Insights for Evaluation of Value Chains Relevant to OtherArmy Functions; Chapter Six - Enlisted Personnel Accessioning
- Where Accessioning Fits in Institutional PersonnelActivitiesSetting High-Level Performance Goals for EnlistedAccessioning; Summary; Chapter Seven - Short-Term Acquisition Initiatives; Short-Term Acquisition; Setting High-Level Performance Goals for Short-TermAcquisition; Setting High-Level Performance Goals for Short-TermAcquisition; Summary; Chapter Eight - Conclusions; The Problem: Aligning the Operational and InstitutionalArmies; The Solution: A Strategic Approach to Change; One Useful Tool: Evaluation of Value Chains for KeyInstitutional Activities
- Bottom Line: Will the Senior Leadership Invest and Staythe Course?Appendix A - Relevant Aspects of Emerging Changes in the Operating Force; Appendix B - Simple Three-Sector Input-Output Model of the Army; Appendix C - Major Objectives of the Army Campaign Plan RElevant to the Institutional Army; Appendix D - More on Linking MEtrics to a Value Chain; Appendix E - Background on Army Medical Services; Appendix F - Army Strategic Management System; Bibliography
