Since military IT specialists are a scarce resource, it is also important that staff are able to administer their IT systems with little training. The systems used in operation should be kept simple and the human interface should be as familiar as possible Organisations have the capacity to behave in similar ways to people. Basic Operations are analogous to the basic tasks that the human body has to perform in order to survive such as eating, breathing, sleeping.
Organisations have similar tasks - pay wages, buying materials, order processing.
A Digital Nervous System can help automate these basic operations. Strategic thinking can be considered as the way that the human body takes in lots of information and finds new and insightful views. An organisation's staff is also capable of such innovation, provided they have the information and tools to do it. Strategic thinking should not be the preserve of business consultants or one-off projects rather it should happen every day. In the same way that the human body can see, hear, touch, smell and taste its external environment, so an organisation like the Ministry of Defence has external interactions with international partners and governments.