When developing a detailed annual plan, the biggest pitfall to avoid is not having a defined process. There are a lot of ...

Chief Dennis Compton outlines how the Mesa, AZ, Fire Department provides organizational direction and defines the direction it will take in the decade ahead. The year 2000 was exciting and busy, as is ...

During Warfighter Exercise (WfX) 25-01, the phrase “set conditions” was frequently used to describe prerequisites for ...

Supply chain optimization depends on mapping the constraints in the supply chain. This solution from Solvoyo, shows how transportation constraints are mapped. Supply chain management has been in the ...

Operational planning is a critical part of a manager or small business owner's job in a small company. A company's leaders must set goals and develop a plan for work activities, or operations, ...

Tactical planning is an important element in business, and it varies somewhat from common strategic and operational planning methods. The tactical planning process happens in real-time, pursuing short ...

Planners today struggle to properly apply operational art in large scale war — and they don’t fully realize why. It takes something like firsthand ...

Generative AI is here, but we don’t quite know what to do with it. Across both industry and the military, enthusiasm has outpaced results. Companies report rising rates of abandoned AI projects, while ...