A common operating picture for Air Force materiel sustainment : : first steps / / Raymond A. Pyles [et al.]

The United States Air Force materiel sustainment system (MSS) is continually caught between two countervailing pressures: demands for increased efficiency and lower costs on one side versus demands for increasingly effective support to combat operations and peacetime training on the other. Furthermo...

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Superior document:RAND Corporation monograph series
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Year of Publication:2008
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Rand Corporation monograph series.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xxvii, 111 pages)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Preface; Contents; Figures; Tables; Summary; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Chapter One - Introduction; Scope of This Monograph; Organization of This Monograph; Chapter Two - Framework: Common Operating Pictures, Effectiveness-Based Measures, Decision Rights, Schwerpunkt, and Nonmarket Environments; Common Operating Pictures; Effects-Based Metrics; Decision Rights; Schwerpunkt; Achieving Efficient Resource Allocation in a Nonmarket Environment; Chapter Three - Method for Designing a Common Operating Picture; Identify the Broad Objectives; Relate Objectives to Planned Effects
  • Identify Measures of Effects Identify the Processes and Decisions That Affect Each MOE; Identify MOEIs and Alarm Thresholds for Each MOE; Allocate Decision Rights to the Lowest Possible Echelon Agency; Adjust Incentives to Reward MOEI Performance; Periodically Review and Adjust the COP and the Decision Rights; Chapter Four - An Example: Common Operating Pictures for the Materiel Sustainment System; Identifying Broad Air Force Objectives; Aircraft Materiel Sustainment Measures of Effectiveness; Identifying Measures of Effects; Identifying Decisions That Affect Each MOE
  • Identifying MOEIs and Setting Alarm Thresholds Allocating Decision Rights; Adjusting Incentives; Periodic Review and Refinement of the COP and Decision Rights; Chapter Five - Conclusion; Some Foreseeable Implementation Challenges; Beyond DLRs; Appendix - How Decisions Occur in Organizations; References