Both operational guidance and operational planning help businesses achieve operational success. Operational guidance establishes codes of conduct and ethics for the organization. Operational planning, ...

The year before my battalion's deployment to Afghanistan was the first time our brigade was afforded the opportunity to execute a 12-month training cycle. This allowed team- through brigade-level ...

In recent years, as AI has begun to enter military planning and operational design, a persistent unease has surfaced among practitioners. Even with improved tools, increased tempo, and unprecedented ...

Units develop an incomplete operational framework during the military decision-making process and do not have a system or means to adjust the operational framework during execution. An inability to ...

Both service operations and manufacturing operations are in the business of satisfying customers, and that requires organization and planning. While the mechanisms and inputs for creating customer ...

Energy is useful. If controlled correctly it can create value and be put to good use. However, it is, by its very thermodynamic nature, potentially harmful and must be carefully contained within the ...