Author : William Greenwalt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (124 download)
Book Synopsis Competing in Time by : William Greenwalt
Download or read book Competing in Time written by William Greenwalt and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The public management framework used to guide and oversee US defense innovation since the 1960s has deemphasized the significance of time as an incentive to invention while emphasizing values such as cost, technology maturity, fairness, and perceived efficiency. As a result of an excessive focus on linear implementation of this management framework and compliance with processes to ensure these values, system development time increased and time-based constraints to innovation were lost, and the US ability to adapt has been damaged. Time was relegated in the predictive cost analysis worldview as a schedule issue that could be measured as an engineering and cost estimation problem, not as the ultimate driver of adaptable innovation. Time to development and deployment ultimately increased to adapt to the length of linear management processes that collectively make it impossible to innovate in the time spans of the 1940s and 1950s. These conclusions call for a reevaluation of the defense management regimes and the DoD’s core institutional processes and a reconsideration of the criteria used in guiding and evaluating successful defense innovation.