Using Value-Focused Thinking as an Alternative Means of Opportunity Assessment for Strategic Sourcing Applications

Abstract

In recent years, the Federal Government has attempted to utilize strategic sourcing to reduce acquisitions expenses. Currently accepted best practices for strategic sourcing developed in the private sector fail to account for the diverse and unique set of objectives present in public sector acquisitions. Value Focused Thinking was used to develop a hierarchy of values and objectives for the Air Force Civil Engineer Commodity Council (CECC) strategic sourcing program. This hierarchy represents the full range of program objectives, and was used to develop a value function useful for systematically evaluating service and commodity contract areas for strategic sourcing potential.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 2013
Accession Number
ADA584599

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  • Andrew R. Myers

Organizations

  • Air Force Institute of Technology

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  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Air Force
  • Best Practices
  • Business Administration
  • Civil Engineering
  • Commerce
  • Contracts
  • Department Of Defense
  • Engineering
  • Engineers
  • Governments
  • Information Systems
  • Organizational Structure
  • Procurement
  • Supply Chain
  • United States
  • United States Government

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  • Defense Acquisition Program Management
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