Increasing flexibility and agility at the National Reconnaissance Office : lessons from modular design, occupational surprise, and commercial research and development processes /

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To help the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) become more flexible and agile in an increasingly uncertain world, RAND sought answers to two key questions. First, would the NRO benefit from building modular satellites? RAND researchers developed a method for evaluating whether a system is a good c...

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Cote:Libro Electrónico
Collectivités auteurs: Intelligence Policy Center (U.S.), Rand Corporation. National Security Research Division, Rand Corporation, United States. National Reconnaissance Office
Autres auteurs: Baiocchi, Dave, Langeland, Krista, Fox, D. Steven, Buerkle, Amelia, Walters, Jennifer
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Santa Monica, CA : RAND, 2013.
Sujets:
United States. > National Reconnaissance Office.
United States. > National Reconnaissance Office
Organizational change > Management.
Corporate culture.
Strategic planning.
Organizational change.
Changement organisationnel.
Culture organisationnelle.
Planification stratégique.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Strategic Planning.
Corporate culture
Organizational change > Management
Strategic planning
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Résumé:To help the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) become more flexible and agile in an increasingly uncertain world, RAND sought answers to two key questions. First, would the NRO benefit from building modular satellites? RAND researchers developed a method for evaluating whether a system is a good candidate for modularity and applied it to systems both inside and outside the NRO. The authors found that NRO space systems do not appear to be strong candidates for modularization. Second, what lessons might be drawn from how chief executive officers, military personnel, and health care professionals (among others) respond to surprise? RAND developed a framework to categorize professionals' responses to surprise and then conducted discussions with representatives from 13 different professions, including former ambassadors, chief executive officers, military personnel, and physicians. The authors observed that all interviewees used common coping strategies. The authors also found some differences in response to surprise that depend on two factors: time available to respond and the level of chaos in the environment. The report concludes with recommendations on actions that the NRO can take to improve the flexibility of its hardware and the workforce.
Description:"RAND National Defense Research Institute."
"This research was conducted within the Intelligence Policy Center of the RAND National Defense Research Division (NSRD)"--Preface
Description matérielle:1 online resource (xvi, 71 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 69-71).
ISBN:9780833082039
0833082035

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