Strategic Mission Implementation: A Value Focused Approach

Abstract

This paper offers an approach for performance-based decision making and budgeting that objectively orders alternatives according to established mission criteria. We employ a model using Value-Focused Thinking (VFT) to address the contemporary focus on performance and mission-oriented results. The laboratory equipment budget at the US Air Force Academy is used to illustrate how over $1 million of funding was allocated without the divisive claims of departmental inequity. We provide an objective rubric for assessing how well aligned the organization's decisions are relative to its stated mission. Finally, we note that the approach accommodates the flexibility to allocate initial budget allocation as well as year-end residual. As organizations make significant strides toward implementing performance-based decision and budgeting systems, VFT shows considerable promise for improving strategic mission implementation.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 18, 1999
Accession Number
ADA380258

Entities

People

  • James K. Lowe
  • Steve G. Green
  • Steven F. Baker
  • Vernon E. Francis

Organizations

  • United States Air Force Academy

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Business Administration
  • Data Acquisition
  • Department Of Defense
  • Engineering
  • Hierarchies
  • Humanities
  • Laboratory Equipment
  • Law
  • Operations Research
  • Procurement
  • Resilience
  • Social Sciences
  • Space Systems
  • Thinking
  • United States
  • United States Air Force Academy

Readers

  • Defense Acquisition Program Management
  • Government Contracting/Procurement.
  • Systems Analysis and Design