Accomplished International Relations professional with diverse military background and expertise transforming complex initiatives into winning, executable strategies.
A strategy gives any organization a true north towards the future. It keeps the organization focused on an objective vs chasing the proverbial “shinning object.” Any organization without a forward thinking function, or strategy is bound to become irrelevant and eventually disappear. Careful with those who “advise” against the case for a strategy because they might be more willling to preserve the “status quo” instead of what is best for the mission.
The Defense Information Systems Agency released its strategic plan that articulates the organization’s goals over the next five years. The DISA Next Strategy seeks to align the combat support agency with the 2022 National Defense Strategy and five-year budgeting process to help department leadership and industry partners make more informed decisions for allocating resources. Priority number one in DISA’s new strategy is the need to simplify the network globally with large-scale adoption of command IT environments. The plan is to consolidate combatant commands and defense agencies and field activities into this environment, serving as a key first step in providing a DOD-wide warfighting information system. The document lists four strategic imperatives that are overarching and important functions the agency must perform, each consisting of more specific operational imperatives. They include: - Operate and secure the DISA portion of the DOD Information Network - Support strategic command, control and communications - Optimize the network - Operationalize data
SCD SGM at Army North
8moWhen I read “Five Year Strategy” I think we are doomed for failure. True north of the future is 8-100 years away. 0 is tactics, 1-5 is operations and shaping for 6-10. Strategy is often spoken like it’s meant to be seen in the creators lifetime rather than along a time continuum greater than a decade out. There are instances where short term strategy exists but we have got to start changing the need for execution of strategy.