All governmental and commercial entities conduct their affairs in a continuum. This “Operations Continuum” is punctuated by events that define experiential transition points in the growth of every organization. The distinction of these points is as the culmination to a level of operations. For an organization to grow it must confront and successfully cope with external influences that it can’t control, but define its operational environment.
Administrative constructs will vary but, this graphic illustrates principal enterprise functions that all businesses evolve through, starting informally with a couple folks and a good idea, incrementally formalizing functions into a mature enterprise, which will be inevitably riddled with exploitable vulnerabilities.
Organizations must manage a variety of threats acting upon intrinsic vulnerabilities within the enterprise structure. Complexity of the environment scales up correspondingly to the size of enterprise and its core components of relations, facilities, and production.
All governmental and commercial entities conduct their affairs in a continuum. This “Operations Continuum” is punctuated by events that define experiential transition points in the growth of every organization. The distinction of these points is as the culmination to a level of operations. For an organization to grow it must confront and successfully cope with external influences that it can’t control, but define its operational environment.
All organizational dysfunctions track directly to leadership failings II
Situational Ambiguity & Decisiveness
All organizational dysfunctions track directly to leadership failings III
Threat spectrum revised: Violence is a distraction
All organizational dysfunctions track directly to leadership failings IV
Why plan when you can react