Strategy Technology and War Terms
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- technology
- Collective instruments used by operators to do their work
- strategy
- The calculated relationship of large ends and means
- first order controls
- Hierarchy - layering with a pyramid of authority, Specialization - division of work, Standardization - control of variance, Formalization - rules and regs
- Technology and the doctrinal lack
- Tech gets fielded and people don't have the time
- Cold War
- long term competition between two industrial powers for the control of Europe and the developing world
- Contingency Theory of Organization
- Change one variable, and you may have to change another. Allows reduction of complexity considering all factors at once is too hard.
- Distruptive Technologies
- lacks refinement, often has performance problems because it is new, appeals to a limited audience, and may not yet have a proven practical application.
- Differentiation
- when a system has a specialized systematically organized means for coping with its specified imperatives
- Integration
- the quality of the state of collaboration that exists among departments that need to achieve unity of effort by the demands of their environmentnized means for coping with its specified imperatives
- Goldwater-Nichols Legislation
- one of the biggest changes in civil military relations - too many pointy headed intellectuals in the pentagon , combat users have to have more say in weapons systems. You are going to find a huge investment in current readiness technology.
- Norms
- authoritative rules or principles which dictate the actions of both sides
- Organizations
- Collections of individuals who share common goals. Common goals help economize on information. Organizations create macro order out of micro disorder.
- Reciprocal Fear of Surprise Attack
- you and burglar have gun. You are shooting first because you don't want to get shot.
- SIOP
- Single Integrated Operation Plan
- True Genius of Napoleonic Warfare
- decentralization of communication. Focused on strategy not on food. Corps organized their own food
- Side-Wise Technologies
- mature technologies applied to new problem areas (boring but effective, ie IED)
- sustaining technologies
- relies on incremental improvements to an already established technology
- strategic apex
- top management
- operating core
- basic workers
- middle line
- intermediate managers
- technostructure
- analysts who design systems concerned with formal planning
- support staff
- providing services to the rest of the organization
- machine bureaucracy
- standardization of work-big technostructure
- professional bureaucracy
- standardization of skills bigger support staff, less middle line and technostructure
- divisionalized
- standardization of outputs, parallel operating units, autonomous middle managers
- adhocracy
- specialists combine their efforts in project teams use mutual adjustment