Course Description:
This course explores the fundamental nature and dynamics of transformation, and the disequilibrium and ambiguity surrounding the search for and transformation to new mission spaces.  It investigates those perilous but essential changes that allow an organization to create new organizational capabilities, exploit technologies, and take advantage of performance possibilities, in order to achieve new levels of mission effectiveness or move into new mission spaces.  This course examines the nature and interdependencies of the turbulent, globalized, and technologically catalyzed and infused environment in which traditional organizational interventions are increasingly inadequate.  It analyzes the need for and type of new governance that can and will lead the transformation effort that results in the critical strategic alignment underpinning of agile, responsive, and relevant organizations and mission capabilities.

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 analyze the global economic, social, and technological forces catalyzing transformation efforts; assess how this strategic landscape drives and shapes transformation opportunities and possibilities in their own and other government organizations; and create, evaluate, and recommend an appropriate governance structure that allows for an effective and sustained transformation.