Development of an Operationally-Oriented Measure of Sustainability

Abstract

This thesis proposes a framework for evaluating sustainability in the Air Force and for determining an appropriate measure of effectiveness that is both meaningful in a military sense and useful in planning and programming decisions. Following a literature review of organizational performance measures and strategy formulation, Michael Porter's Competitive Analysis model for strategy selection was presented. This model was then used to evaluate case studies in which organizations faced strategic decisions and to suggest measures by which these organizations could determine their effectiveness. The model was then shown to be applicable to the Air Force, and recommendations on implementing such a framework to develop a new sustainability measure were proposed. These recommendations would be easy to implement because they require no investment in resources, only a different focus in collecting pertinent information. Furthermore, the same process could be used at all levels of organization and decision making.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1991
Accession Number
ADA246748

Entities

People

  • Moira D. Williams

Organizations

  • Air Force Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Human Systems
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Business Administration
  • Case Studies
  • Computer Programming
  • Electronic Components
  • Electronics Industry
  • Employment
  • Governments
  • Information Systems
  • Literature Surveys
  • Logistics
  • Management Personnel
  • Military Capabilities
  • National Security
  • Organizational Structure
  • Petroleum
  • Resource Management

Readers

  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Economics
  • Theoretical Analysis.