Course Description:
This course focuses on strategies, means, and information models needed for effective multi-agency collaboration in planning, decision-making and implementation of national security operations, including stabilization and reconstruction, and homeland security and national preparedness operations.  It examines current and proposed initiatives for transforming and leading cross-boundary collaboration at the Federal, State and local levels, and includes multilateral collaboration situations with nongovernment (NGO) and international organizations and coalitions, media, private sector and coalition partners.   The course examines how information-enabled networks, collaborative tool-sets, cross-boundary information-sharing, and work processes can be harnessed to enable effective multi-agency and multilateral national and homeland security activities.  The course assesses the human, social and leadership issues of sustained and effective multi-agency collaborations.  Impediments such as legal and budgetary authority restrictions, educational and cultural factors that inhibit cross-boundary mission effectiveness and transformation are assessed, as are strategies for addressing them.

Recommended Attendance:
The course is critical for DoD, national and international security community officers and civilian executives, particularly State and Homeland Security Departments, who have, or aspire to, hold leadership positions with transformation responsibilities.   

Prerequisites:
None

Learning Outcomes
Students will be able to evaluate the principles and dynamics of effective collaboration across agency boundaries and the leader competencies, information technologies and organizational innovations that offer opportunities to enable effective multi-agency collaboration; appraise critically the ends, ways, and means for achieving effective multi-agency collaboration; and formulate and shape transformation initiatives to significantly advance effectiveness in complex operations requiring multi-agency collaboration.