Strategy Technology and War Terms

Collective instruments used by operators to do their work

The calculated relationship of large ends and means

Hierarchy - layering with a pyramid of authority, Specialization - division of work, Standardization - control of variance, Formalization - rules and regs

Tech gets fielded and people don't have the time

long term competition between two industrial powers for the control of Europe and the developing world

Change one variable, and you may have to change another. Allows reduction of complexity considering all factors at once is too hard.

lacks refinement, often has performance problems because it is new, appeals to a limited audience, and may not yet have a proven practical application.

when a system has a specialized systematically organized means for coping with its specified imperatives

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

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.

authoritative rules or principles which dictate the actions of both sides

Collections of individuals who share common goals. Common goals help economize on information. Organizations create macro order out of micro disorder.

you and burglar have gun. You are shooting first because you don't want to get shot.

Single Integrated Operation Plan

decentralization of communication. Focused on strategy not on food. Corps organized their own food

mature technologies applied to new problem areas (boring but effective, ie IED)

relies on incremental improvements to an already established technology

top management

basic workers

intermediate managers

analysts who design systems concerned with formal planning

providing services to the rest of the organization

standardization of work-big technostructure

standardization of skills bigger support staff, less middle line and technostructure

standardization of outputs, parallel operating units, autonomous middle managers

specialists combine their efforts in project teams use mutual adjustment