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The Functionalist Takeover and the problem of organizational design in the DoD

September 25, 2020 Eric Lofgren 0

[Secretary of Defense Neil McElroy] told the Senate Committee on Armed Services that the present assistant secretary could not “give orders.” McElroy proposed a civilian […]

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The Defense Department was never intended to innovate?

April 25, 2019 Eric Lofgren 0

Innovation leaders often cite Eastman-Kodak as an example of an enterprise that was too dim-witted to see the writing on the wall and so fell from its […]

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Can Israeli defense management help guide the U.S.?

February 23, 2019 Eric Lofgren 0

For the Pentagon, developing and deploying a major new system like this can take more than a decade. By contrast, the Israel Defense Ministry gave […]

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