CNO's Rapid Innovation Cell (CRIC)

You can listen to a recent interview by LCDR Chuck Hall with LT Jason Knudson and CTR1(IDW) Lucian Gauthier talking about innovation on Information Dominance Corps Self Synchronization LIVE (Recorded yesterday).

The recording is HERE.

Setting Organizational Strategy

For much of the 20th century, “leadership” in the Navy has meant “control.” Senior Navy leaders established formal structures and processes. They handed Sailors detailed instructions and specifications that directed them to perform specific tasks in a precise manner. Ships, squadrons and commands operated in well-defined stovepipes and their processes/systems were very hierarchical.

These organizations no longer operate in the same way they did during the last century. Today’s Sailors have different expectations than did Sailors of their parents' and grandparents' generation when they served. The world is more complex. and so is the Navy. Sustained performance improvement in the Navy can be achieved only by seeing and managing interrelationships across the entire enterprise, rather than by asserting and hoping for linear cause and effect.

Arie de Geus, former coordinator of strategic planning at Royal Dutch Shell, published an article in the Harvard Business Review in 1988 called Planning as Learning, in which he proposed that the ability to continually rethink one’s purpose and methods was not just a valuable technique, but the single factor most responsible for competitive advantage. As long as the Navy possesses the ability to innovate and to develop its Sailors, it would always remain one jump ahead of their competitors. This is the essence of strategic management.

Paraphrased from "The Strategy Bridge Approach to Strategic Management" written by the President and CEO of Strategy Bridge International, Mark A. Wilson. His privately owned firm is eleven years old.  He is a retired Navy Reserve Captain. For more information contact:

Strategy Bridge International, Inc.
9 North Loudoun Street, Suite 208
Winchester, VA 22601- 4798

www.strategybridge.com

Where is she now - Captain Sara Joyner

Following her tour as CAG Carrier Airwing THREE, Captain Sara Joyner is still on afterburner... at the CNO's SSG.

CNO Fellow CNO Strategic Studies Group

US Navy

September 2014 – Present (9 months) Newport Rhode Island

The Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) Strategic Studies Group (SSG) is hand selected to serve on a 10-month assignment which explores innovations in naval warfighting, generates operational concepts, underpins them with technologies, and recommends immediately actionable steps directly to the Chief of Naval Operations. This assignment culminates in concept generation that informs and influences the CNO and his senior staff as they determine Navy policy and program investment for the future.

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The Gap Between Strategy and Results

FCC/C10F published their Strategic Plan for 2015-2020 yesterday.  Now the hard work begins...executing the strategy to bridge the gap between strategy and results.  As noted on page 22, "Many organizations struggle with executing their strategic plans." FCC/C10F doesn't intend to be one of those organizations.  FCC/C10F is developing a detailed execution plan which will translate goals into measurable, focused results. The execution plan will specify the individual on the leadership team who owns the goal and when it will be accomplished. There will be regular progress reviews and FCC/C10F will foster productive relationships, open channels of communication and encourage strong engagement.

The Plan

You can read the entire plan HERE.  The Executive Leadership Group Inc. and Captain Roy Petty's N5 team delivered the goods.

Let's INNOVATE like its 1999 !!

You can read it HERE.  You can keep Sailors motivated and focused if you don't keep jerking them around.  A really good leader told me - "Steady strain on all lines."

Commanding Officer VFA ONE FIVE ONE fired for maltreatment of a Sailor

Commander Kurt Bohlken was relieved on 2 May by Rear Admiral Ron Boxall, commander, Carrier Strike Group THREE, following an Admiral's Mast proceeding where Bohlken was found guilty of violating Uniform Code Military Justice articles 92 (failure to obey an order or regulation) and 93 (maltreatment) of a Sailor.

Bohlken had been in command for just over a year. VFA ONE FIVE ONE is currently embarked aboard the aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74).

True ?

Happy that more and more of our IDC officers are doing this

Keep at it.

This ??NIOC CO?? is on top of it

Mike,

We took the SECNAV's memo on INNOVATION to heart and jumped in with both feet on 21 April.  To that end, we:

• Established our command Innovation Advisory Council - co-chaired by the XO and the President of our First Class Petty Officers' Association,
• Defined the processes and responsibilities for accelerating innovation across the command,
• My command Innovation Tiger Team identified and connected with critical "beyond the command lifelines" stakeholders,
• Allocated command funds for innovative ideas iaw through OPNAVINST 1650.8D (CASH AWARDS FOR MILITARY PERSONNEL FOR SUGGESTIONS, INVENTIONS, SCIENTIFIC ACHIEVEMENTS AND DISCLOSURES), and
• Are working to develop an efficient innovation process to support DON-wide innovation objectives for the future.  We want to lead in all areas possible.

We think these actions will give us a head start on building our command's culture of innovation. We've done well with our culture of fitness, our culture of inclusiveness, our culture of cultural and ethnic awareness and our culture of work/life balance.

Vr/The Skipper

Rear Admiral Sean R. Filipowski promoted to 2 star today and moved to OSD

Today, 1 May 2015, Rear Admiral Filipowski becomes the senior military advisor for cyber to the Undersecretary of Defense for Policy, Christine Wormuth.

Fifteen years ago, he relieved me as Commanding Officer of U.S. Naval Security Group Activity Yokosuka, Japan.

Innovate or else - and do it before August 2015

The Power of the Written Word

Writing and the ability to write by hand matters and is as important today as it ever was, especially in an increasingly digital world.

World Stationery Day celebrates the written word and all things stationery – the products which make it possible. You can never have too much stationery!

Its aim is to get people all over the world talking about stationery, and why writing by hand is important. And to send more letters and cards, and not just text or email.

You can read more HERE.