The process of operational goal-setting is a critical step when it comes to business planning. It's the step that transforms strategic plans into actionable items. I previously wrote about operational ...

In recent years, as AI has begun to enter military planning and operational design, a persistent unease has surfaced among ...

This is a revised column from one that Dr. Chaman Jain, the editor of the Journal of Business Forecasting (JBF), recently asked me to write. It discussed the relationship between strategic and ...

This chapter contains a description of the status of the capabilities-based planning (CBP) processes of the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) and the Office of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (OJCS).

For years, operational planners have relied on generic software to build the plans that guide every mission within the Department of Defense. Unspecialized tools like Microsoft PowerPoint, Word and ...

Bill Edwards is a retired U.S. Army Colonel, a veteran of the Iraq War, a sUAS security trainer, and Owner of Phoenix 6 Consulting LLC. The Tower 22 attack is one example of where the U.S. Army cites ...

The Army provides leaders at all levels training in deliberate planning during their professional military education (PME) courses. However, rarely do these courses train Lieutenants and ...