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F--Management Innovation as a Strategic Technology
Pages 202-206

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From page 202...
... Improvements in data storage and processing continue at a rapid pace, but most organizations struggle to manage, analyze, apply, and transform data into useful information for knowledge creation and actionable decision options. The corporate world has come to realize that investment in new information technology systems, without first examining and implementing the necessary business process changes, simply automates existing inefficiencies and results in negligible benefits.
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From page 203...
... , focusing only on information technology results in growing complexity and information overload that exceeds the interpretive capacities of the organizations responsible for developing and using information technologies. Organizations need the analytical, integrative power of operations research to focus business process reengineering on desired outcomes.
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From page 204...
... A modeling, simulation, and analysis component that contains a rigorous analytical capacity to evaluate and assess potential impacts and associated costs of good ideas; and 3. An organizational implementation component to enable the transition of promising concepts into existing organizations, agencies, and companies by providing training, education, technical support, and risk reduction and mitigation methods to reduce operational and organizational risk during periods of inevitably disruptive transformational change.
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From page 205...
... Yet, comparable diagnostic effort has not been prevalent at strategic levels within the institutional Army logistics bureaucracy. Because analytically rigorous root cause analysis and understanding of problems and effective response for management issues are not routinely performed at the strategic level to uncover ground truth and learn from mistakes, reactive crisis management seems to be the institutional response to visible symptoms.
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From page 206...
... The concept of management innovation as a strategic technology can be a leading source of innovation and a crucial enabler for sustaining continuous improvement in increasingly resourcechallenged environments. OBSERVATIONS In this era of dramatic resource constraints, the Army logistics community needs to better harness and apply operations research and strategic analytics across the materiel enterprise.
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