Browsing by Author "Watters, Bryan"

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    Chapter 8: strategic management
    (Routledge, 2021-11-29) Zaidi, Ifti; Watters, Bryan
    In a fast moving and complex world, strategic management is recognised as one of the most vital requirements for success in contemporary organisations. This chapter explores the relevance of strategic management to defence and security. After briefly discussing the background to and major developments in strategic management, the chapter explores how strategic mangers process the duality in creative continuity and change, presenting examples drawn from the public and corporate sectors. It concludes with a summary of key takeaways and some thoughts on the challenges for strategic managers in reconciling conflicting stakeholder demands for the delivery of public goods and services in a volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous world.
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    Operational resilience in the business-battle space
    (Capco Institute, 2021-05-01) Matthews, Ron; Ansari, Irfan; Watters, Bryan
    The purpose of this paper is to explore the interconnectivity between defence, security, and business, particularly when viewed through the prism of operational resilience. The standard stereotype depicts the military acting as a harbinger of destruction while business represents the motive force of wealth generation. This is too simplistic, however. Militaries fight wars, but they also make an important contribution to addressing the expanding array of non-traditional threats that form part of national security, including wildfires, floods, earthquakes and, of course, pandemics, such as COVID-19. The military’s physical resources, attitudinal robustness, and rigorous planning regimes represent three of the more important dimensions of military operational resilience. Mutual commercial-military benefits can be gained via a “two-way” street in the adoption of best-practice resilience solutions. There is a recognition that just as military resource managers can learn from business, so equally can business learn from the military. The U.K. case is offered to illustrate the principles, policies, and practices of military operational resilience.