CSAF Brown’s struggle against bureaucracy and why there’s resistance to top-down plans
CSAF CQ Brown’s desire to accelerate decision making in the Air Force — “accelerate or lose” — seems to not be going as well as […]
mission command
How Jeff Bezos created a business culture of mission command by replacing PowerPoint with narratives
I’d start by going back in time and place you where Jeff Bezos was when all entrepreneurs started out. At the beginning, Jeff worked out […]
An innovation culture maximizes variation, a manufacturing culture decreases it
Most companies over-optimize for efficiency. They want to get so good at their current market that they lose flexibility to adjust to the future. And […]
How delegation of authority is proceeding in Air Force contracting
The big question in my mind is not whether we are going to increase the authorities at the lower levels — we have to do […]
Podcast: Andrew Hunter on software-defined, hardware-based adaptable systems
Andrew Hunter, director of the defense-industrial group at CSIS, joined me on the Acquisition Talk podcast to discuss a set of papers on adaptable systems, […]
US Army R&D endorses mission command
I think frankly, what they thought was [we had] an industrial age model that existed and as we move into the 21st century and what […]
Single- vs. Multi-Function Systems
Here is Navy Matters on single vs. multi function system design: So many people want to cram every capability they can think of onto every […]