Course Description:
This course focuses on transformation initiatives relating to DoD capabilities, forces, and the Enterprise, and collaborative multi-agency national security and coalition arrangements.  The course places current DoD transformation efforts within the retrospective of Information Age drivers, examining relevant and current Revolutions in Military and Business Affairs.  This is followed by a prospective context examining the innovations in information associated with network centric warfare, operations, and enterprise management concepts.  It examines how these innovations in leveraging the information power of networked teams, forces, organizations, and coalitions are being used to deconstruct and reshape the DoD into an agile organization that can adapt swiftly to perform diverse defense, national, and homeland security missions.  The course analyzes strategies leaders have adopted to effect DoD transformation, including experimentation and joint capability concepts.  The course examines the challenges and opportunities posed for transformation leaders who seek to transform a complex mega-enterprise while simultaneously preparing and leading global war-fighting and peace building operations.

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 critically the ends, ways, and means of defense transformation; evaluate the dynamics of challenges posed by and opportunities presented for defense transformation; develop critical competencies for leading transformation initiatives by experimenting with one aspect of DoD’s transformation effort; and propose and defend recommendations for alternative transformation approaches and actions.