Course Description:
This course focuses on transformation and innovation initiatives relating to building the future military and
organizational capabilities of Defense organizations.The course places current DOD transformation and
innovation efforts within the context of Information Age drivers and recent and current Revolutions in Military Affairs. This is followed by examination of innovations relating to network centric warfare, interagency
complex operations, capability-based planning, experimentation, and new business models for operating the DOD enterprise. The course examines how these innovations in leveraging the information power of networked teams, forces, organizations and coalitions are being used to deconstruct and reshape the DOD into an organization that can adapt swiftly to perform diverse defense, national and homeland security missions. Students evaluate the competencies, challenges and opportunities posed for transformation leaders as they seek to transform a complex megaenterprise while simultaneously preparing and leading global war-fighting and post-conflict stabilization and reconstruction operations.

Recommended Attendance:
The course is critical for DoD, national and international security community officers and civilian executives, particularly State and Homeland Security Departments, who have, or aspire to, hold leadership positions with transformation responsibilities.   

Prerequisites
None.

Learning Outcomes
Students will be able to formulate and shape the requirement for future transformation and innovation initiatives; develop strategies that prepare defense organizations to successfully engage in and achieve such changes; appraise critically the ends, ways and means of defense transformation and innovation; and from these assessments develop strategies for transformation and innovation that can be successfully proposed and endorsed.