Preparing for the future [[electronic resource] ] : strategic planning in the U.S. Air Force / / Michael Barzelay, Colin Campbell

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910451319003321
• Autore: Barzelay Michael
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Washington, D.C., : Brookings Institution Press, c2003
• ISBN: 0-8157-9607-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (288 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): CampbellColin <1943->
• Disciplina: 358.4/03/0973
• Soggetti: Military planning - United States; Strategic planning - United States; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-256) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 1 Visioning, Strategic Planning, and Corporate Evolution ; 1 -- The Degree of Departure from Previous Approaches ; 3 -- The Role of Organizational Characteristics ; 10 -- Contending with Constricted Latitude ; 12 -- Expanding the Horizons for Strategic Planning ; 14 -- Steps for Effective Implementation ; 18 -- ; 2 Precursors of Strategic Visioning: Discontinuous Change in the Early Post-Cold War Period ; 27 -- The Rice-McPeak Era: Supplying the Air Force with a Strategic Vision ; 27 -- The Gulf War: Changing the Air Force's Self-Conception ; 29 -- Alliance Reversal: The Impact of the Gulf War on the Defense Policy Subsystem ; 32 -- Space-Based Provision of Military Intelligence ; 33 -- Origins of the Fogleman-Era Strategic Vision ; 35 -- ; 3 Planning with Dialogue and Passion: The Fogleman Round ; 37 -- Strategic Visioning and Long-Range Planning as Policy Management ; 39 -- The Strategic Planning Agenda ; 41 -- Moving toward the Corona Conference ; 52 -- From Strategic Vision to Long-Range Plan ; 58 -- ; 4 The Ryan-Peters Round ; 62 -- Taking Stock of the Fogleman Round ; 63 -- The Next Round: Unfinished Business ; 75 -- The Ryan-Peters Visioning Process: General Ryan's Approach ; 82 -- ; 5 Understanding Strategic Visioning as a Practice ; 95 -- Innovating the Strategic Visioning Practice ; 97 -- Analyzing Process Designs for Effective Strategic Visioning: The Fogleman Round ; 101 -- Explaining Performance in the Ryan-Peters Round ; 113 -- Case Comparison: Toward Generalization about ; Strategic Visioning Practice ; 115 -- The Air Force Experience in Broader Focus ; 119 -- ; 6 Continuing Institutional Issues: Planning, Resourcing, and Governance ; 121 -- Planning and Shifts in Fiscal Circumstances ; 122 -- Persistent Disjunctions between Planning and Programming ; 131 -- Fixing the Corporate Structure ; 136 -- ; 7 The Process of Implementing Strategic Intent ; 155 -- Origins of the U.S. Air Force Predator Program ; 156 -- Predator and Strategic Intent ; 159 -- Concurrent Visioning and Implementation ; 160 -- ; 8 Processes for Corrective Visioning ; 169 -- The Aerospace Integration Task Force Case ; 170 -- The Space Commission: Corrective Visioning in the Defense Policy Subsystem ; 182 -- The Air Force Futures Games Case ; 192 -- ; 9 Lessons from the Air Force's Efforts to Overcome Incrementalism: Toward Revitalized Governance ; 211 -- Taking the Lessons to a Wider Audience ; 213 -- Revitalizing the Role of Public Service in Government ; 215 -- Linking Policy Foresight and Strategic Intent ; 220 -- Linking Strategic Visioning with Policy and Expenditure Planning and Human Resources and Organizational Planning ; 231 -- Linking Strategic Planning and Policy Management to Implementation ; 238 -- Over to Policy Entrepreneurship ; 238.
• Sommario/riassunto: Annotation