Key Dimensions of Command and Control Approach

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Key Dimensions of Command and Control Approach

• IAMWG Discussion
• Sept. 8, 2004

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• Assessment
• Create awareness
• Create analyses (consistencies, mapping to
  applications and goals)
• Communicate
• Acceptance
• Establish Goals
• Create interests (goals)
• Communicate/articulate (ourselves, others)
• Inconsistencies, conflict, properties
• Gain acceptance (awareness, shared awareness,
  understanding, agreement, and commitment)
• Establish Approach (methods)
• Create metrics
• Communicate
• Acceptance
• Allocate resources (incl. assessment of
  resources)
• Feasibilities
• Risk

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Characteristics of the Problem Situation

• Simple
• Complex
• Wicked

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Create Goals

• Authoritative
• Source informal, merit, formal, negotiated
• Structure hierarchical, decentralized, fully
  distributed
• Negotiated
• Voting
• Collaborative
• Emergent (tacit)

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Articulate/Communicate Goals

• Degree of Explicitness
• Granularity, rationale, context, reliance on
  doctrine
• Degree of Documentation
• Dissemination Approach
• Broadcast, chain, links, selective/consistent
• Temporal
• Horizon
• Frequency
• None (tacit)

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Create Approach

• Authoritative
• Source informal, merit, formal, negotiated
• Structure hierarchical, decentralized, fully
  distributed
• Negotiated
• Voting
• Collaborative
• Emergent (tacit)

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Articulate/Communicate Approach

• Degree of Explicitness
• Granularity, rationale, context, reliance on
  doctrine
• Degree of Documentation
• Dissemination Approach
• Broadcast, chain, links, selective/consistent
• Temporal
• Horizon
• Frequency
• None (tacit)

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Gain Acceptance

• Authoritative
• Source informal, merit, formal, negotiated
• Structure hierarchical, decentralized, fully
  distributed
• Negotiated
• Voting
• Collaborative
• Emergent (tacit)

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Essential Dimensions of C2 Approach

• Constraints (Allowances)
• Allocation of Decision Rights
• Explicit
• Implicit
• Patterns of Interactions
• Distribution of Information
• Ownership
• Access

Dynamics across purpose Dynamics across time
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Broad Dissemination
Distribution of Information
Tight Control
Fully Distributed
Pattern of Interaction
Fully Hierarchal
Uniformly Distributed
Distribution of Decision Rights
Unitarily Distributed
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Broad Dissemination
Edge Organizations
Distribution of Information
Tight Control
Fully Distributed
Pattern of Interaction
Fully Hierarchal
Uniformly Distributed
Distribution of Decision Rights
Unitarily Distributed
Classic C2
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Broad Dissemination
Distribution of Information
Tight Control
Fully Distributed
Pattern of Interaction
Fully Hierarchal
Uniformly Distributed
Distribution of Decision Rights
Unitarily Distributed