COL Peter Newell (U.S. Army, ret.) is CEO of BMNT, an innovation consultancy and former director of the Army’s Rapid Equipping Force. Steven Spear is a senior lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management and author of Wiring the Winning Organization.
Mission-Focus Over Bureaucracy
The U.S. Department of Defense faces a moment of reckoning. While adversaries like China and Russia race ahead with artificial intelligence, hypersonics, and autonomous systems, America’s military remains shackled by a bureaucracy designed to control costs, not to win wars. So, the defense enterprise lags behind faster, more adaptive adversaries in terms of delivering new, decisive capabilities at speed and affordably to the Nation’s forces. President Trump’s April 9 executive order to modernize defense innovation and acquisitions is a step in the right direction, but it does not go nearly far enough.
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Resources:
- View Steve Spear’s MIT Executive Education course Leading Organizations for High Velocity performance
- Read excerpts from The High-Velocity Edge: Chapters 1, 4, & 5 and Chapter 11 Healthcare
- Read excerpt from Wiring the Winning Organization.
Order Steve’s book, The High-Velocity Edge here
Order Steve’s book, Wiring the Winning Organization here
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