The agility advantage
Subtitle: a survival guide for complex enterprises and endeavors
By: David S. Alberts
Publisher: DoD Command and Control Research Program
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Washington, DC
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781893723238
Subjects: United States; Adaptability (Psychology); Evaluation; Complexity (Philosophy); United States. Dept. of Defense; Methodology; Organization; Command and control systems; Organizational effectiveness; Armed Forces
Other titles: Survival guide for complex enterprises and endeavors
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue: a call to action; title: Agility myths; title: Organization of this book; title: Fundamental concepts; title: Problem difficulty; title: Complexity; title: Introduction to agility; title: A new age; title: Understanding a new age; title: The information age; title: An information age military; title: A dawning of a new age; title: A plan to improve agility; title: Accept reality and the agility imperative; title: Understand and improve agility; title: Understanding agility; title: Defining agility; title: Basics of agility; title: Components of agility; title: Conceptual model of agility; title: From manifest agility to potential agility; title: Agility related hypotheses; title: Measuring agility; title: Agility experiments and analysis; title: Experimental campaign framework; title: Establishing a baseline; title: Looking beyond the baseline; title: Exploring an expanded challenge space; title: Picking the most appropriate option; title: Information sharing behaviors and policy choices; title: Impact of problem difficulty on organization-approach agility; title: Agility and cybersecurity; title: The advantage of being adaptive and flexible; title: Quantifying manifest agility; title: Potential agility; title: Limits of observation and experimentation; title: Developing a model of potential agility; title: The evidence for the components of agility; title: Identifying the enablers/inhibitors of the components of agility; title: Toward a model of potential agility; title: Improving agility; title: The agility imperative; title: The rigidity syndrome; title: The road ahead.