KEY POINTS:
  1. Adaptability: Ability to change strategies swiftly based on external/internal factors.
  2. Proactive Evolution: Anticipating market changes before they happen.
  3. Dynamic Capabilities: Harnessing resources and competences to address emerging opportunities.
  4. Responsive Decision-making: Making quick decisions based on real-time data.
  5. Stakeholder Alignment: Keeping all internal and external stakeholders in sync with strategy shifts.
  6. Embracing Uncertainty: Recognizing and exploiting the opportunities that uncertainty presents.
  7. Fluid Organizational Structures: Having structures that can easily be reshaped.
  8. Iterative Learning: Incorporating feedback and learning from every strategic action.
  9. Balanced Risk-taking: Willingness to take calculated risks without jeopardizing the core business.
  10. Competitive Differentiation: Continuously reinventing the value proposition to stay ahead.
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Strategic Influence

Planning for the Next War Must Be a Mixture of Art & Science

In addressing complex security challenges, the U.S. military balances art and science in planning, emphasizing agility and adaptability through the Joint Planning Process and operational design.
14 minutes
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Four RAAF F-35 Aircraft arrive at Eielson AFB in Alaska, USA with snow capped mountains in the distance
Strategic Influence

Understanding ACE

Agile Combat Employment is a concept gaining traction within the USAF and impacts the way their Air Force plans, prepares and responds to threats. The change of focus to a more agile model means that logisticians especially must be able to employ logistics support from adaptive bases and often in a contested environment.
20 minutes
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Air & Space Power

Air forces are ditching runways to prepare their jets to keep operating when enemies aim for their bases

Western air forces, including Britain's Royal Air Force, plan to use highways as makeshift runways for their jets. This strategy, reminiscent of the Cold War, is designed to disperse operations and circumvent enemy attacks. Similarly, the US military is also adopting these tactics.
5 minutes
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Technology & Innovation

Agility: The Business Model Of Today

Business today functions at an unprecedented pace. What once took extensive periods now transpires instantly. The traditional model of sluggish progression through bureaucratic hurdles is outdated. Technology has accelerated market access, resolving customer issues swiftly.
7 minutes
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Technology & Innovation

6 Principles to Build Your Company’s Strategic Agility

In 2020, Airbnb adapted to Covid-19, leading to a successful IPO, while California Pizza Kitchen went bankrupt. Companies like Huanxi, Qantas, and Swiggy showcased strategic agility. Disney emphasized safety and streaming.
11 minutes
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Technology & Innovation

Rapid Dragon: the US military game-changer that could affect conventional and nuclear strategy and arms control negotiations

The US Air Force's Rapid Dragon system repurposes cargo planes like Hercules and Globemaster into palletised cruise missile carriers, turning them into bombers with substantial munition capacity.
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Strategic Influence

The new Marine infantry battalion is slimmer, saltier and more techy

The new battalion cuts manpower from 965 to 811 Marines; meanwhile, it integrates advanced technology to enhance unit capabilities.
25 minutes
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Technology & Innovation

Britain tests transport drone’s ability to land, take off from ship

The HCMC transport drone successfully landed on the HMS Prince of Wales, a significant Royal Navy achievement.
4 minutes