Course Description:
This course focuses on initiatives, strategies, and opportunities for transforming the DoD’s business operations that provide capabilities, resources, and materiel to the global war-fighter.  The course assesses the structural, political, technological, leadership, and human challenges of effecting transformational change in a complex mega-enterprise.  This includes analyzing the challenges transformation initiatives bring when engaging in new ways of doing business, retiring legacy systems, processes and strategies, while simultaneously delivering required services and results.  The evolving vision and development of the Global Information Grid (GIG) as the information technology enabler of business enterprise transformation are evaluated.  Students examine large organization transformations from the corporate sector to identify insightful lessons that can be developed as recommendations for DoD business enterprise transformation.  

Recommended Attendance:
The course is critical for DoD officers and civilian executives, and of interest in a comparative sense for other Federal agency officers and civilian executives, who have, or aspire to hold leadership positions with transformation responsibilities.   

Prerequisites
None

Learning Outcomes
Students will be able to identify the central dynamics and enablers of initiatives, opportunities, and strategies for transforming DoD’s business enterprise; evaluate and compare transformation efforts across multiple agencies by identifying areas of strengths, weaknesses, and opportunities, and recommending strategies for addressing them.