
Preparing for the Future
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While the Clinton Administration and federal agencies were busy making government cost less and work better in the near-term, the United States Air Force was regularly visualizing the competencies needed to assure the organization's long-term effectiveness. As a result of steady efforts to prepare for the future conducted under successive secretaries and chiefs of staff, the Air Force has developed a distinctive approach to strategic planning. This approach is fundamentally concerned with ensuring that the organization's future capabilities support effective performance of future tasks. Such tasks are shaped by ever-changing policy objectives and circumstances of implementation. After eight years, the Air Force has not only successfully refined its distinctive approach to strategic planning, but has also leveraged change in programmatic decisions, human resource management, and operational technologies. This study provides an inside look at how the Air Force came to formulate and declare its ""strategic intent"" for developing the organization's capabilities over a timeline of more than twenty years. Air Force strategic intent is not a plan, but a shared commitment to strengthening specific core competencies and critical future capabilities. Michael Barzelay and Colin Campbell reveal how one of the nation's most significant public organizations has reassessed its own strategic intent. Drawing lessons from the Air Force experience, this book provides a significant contribution to public management research on innovation and executive leadership. One key lesson is that preparing for the future is a responsibility that organizations can discharge effectively if they combine insights with practical knowledge of executive leadership and the dynamics of policy change. Preparing for the Future provides a fresh argument about innovation and leadership in public management, while breaking new ground in the analysis of managerial practices, such as strategic v
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- Cover
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Visioning, Strategic Planning, and Corporate Evolution
- The Degree of Departure from Previous Approaches
- The Role of Organizational Characteristics
- Contending with Constricted Latitude
- Expanding the Horizons for Strategic Planning
- Steps for Effective Implementation
- The Plan for This Book
- 2 Precursors of Strategic Visioning: Discontinuous Change in the Early Post-Cold War Period
- The Rice-McPeak Era: Supplying the Air Force with a Strategic Vision
- The Gulf War: Changing the Air Force's Self-Conception
- Alliance Reversal:The Impact of the Gulf War on the Defense Policy Subsystem
- Space-Based Provision of Military Intelligence
- Origins of the Fogleman-Era Strategic Vision
- 3 Planning with Dialogue and Passion: The Fogleman Round
- Strategic Visioning and Long-Range Planning as Policy Management
- The Strategic Planning Agenda
- Moving toward the Corona Conference
- From Strategic Vision to Long-Range Plan
- 4 The Ryan-Peters Round
- Taking Stock of the Fogleman Round
- The Next Round: Unfinished Business
- The Ryan-Peters Visioning Process: General Ryan's Approach
- Conclusions
- 5 Understanding Strategic Visioning as a Practice
- Innovating the Strategic Visioning Practice
- Analyzing Process Designs for Effective Strategic Visioning:The Fogleman Round
- Explaining Performance in the Ryan-Peters Round
- Case Comparison:Toward Generalization about Strategic Visioning Practice
- The Air Force Experience in Broader Focus
- 6 Continuing Institutional Issues: Planning, Resourcing, and Governance
- Planning and Shifts in Fiscal Circumstances
- Persistent Disjunctions between Planning and Programming
- Fixing the Corporate Structure
- Conclusion
- 7 The Process of Implementing Strategic Intent
- Origins of the U.S. Air Force Predator Program
- Predator and Strategic Intent
- Concurrent Visioning and Implementation
- Conclusion
- 8 Processes for Corrective Visioning
- The Aerospace Integration Task Force Case
- The Space Commission: Corrective Visioning in the Defense Policy Subsystem
- The Air Force Futures Games Case
- 9 Lessons from the Air Force's Efforts to Overcome Incrementalism: Toward Revitalized Governance
- Taking the Lessons to a Wider Audience
- Revitalizing the Role of Public Service in Government
- Linking Policy Foresight and Strategic Intent
- Linking Strategic Visioning with Policy and Expenditure Planning and Human Resources and Organizational Planning
- Linking Strategic Planning and Policy Management to Implementation
- Over to Policy Entrepreneurship
- Notes
- Methodological Appendix
- Index
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