Giving a New Focus to Resource Management,

Abstract

In Army resource management, we have for the past several years perpetuated a management anarchronism. As we move through the Planning, Programming, Budget and Execution System (PPBES) process, we do not maintain the continuity necessary to find out how well our decisions in the earlier phases of the process actually turn out. We have allowed this key management process to exist without any formal, systematic feedback loop--the key step necessary to evaluate the quality of our decisions and to improve the quality of our future decision making. In the planning phase of the management process, we develop The Army Plan by function. We establish our overall priorities and make decisions for the future in terms of those functions and their relationship to the overall goals of the Army's leadership for the next five and following ten years. In the programming phase of the process, we program our resources to support specific missions and initiatives within each of the functions--identifying first the action required to support the plan for each of the functions, then the resources necessary to accomplish these missions.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1985
Accession Number
ADA161840

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  • Donald C. Prettol

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  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

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  • Artificial Intelligence
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