Some General/Overview Stuff

• Strategic Decisionmaking in the Information Age, Army War College Strategic Leadership Workshop (Cleaned Up local copy), incl DOCs and PPTs
• Reengineering Resource Center, incl Enterprise Reengineering articles
• The Future Is Not What It Used To Be, by Rear Admiral Bill Rowley
• NDU Press Books Online
  • Strategic Leadership and Decision Making (local copy), book from NDU
  • Unintended Consequences of Information Age Technologies, NDU book online

Organizations, Offices, and Agencies

• Office of Management and Budget, White House
  • The President's Management Agenda
• Chief Information Officers Council
• Chief Financial Officers Council
• Federal Accounting Standards Advisory Board (FASAB)
• GovernmentWide Accounting and Reporting (GWA) Modernization, from the Financial Management Service, Dept of the Treasury
• International Consortium on Governmental Financial Management (ICGFM)

Legislation and Documents Impacting Strategic Plans

• The President's Management Agenda
• OMB Circulars
  • OMB Circulars in Numerical Sequence
  • OMB Circular No. A-11 (deals with preparation and submission of strategic plans and annual performance plans)

• Get final bills thru http://thomas.loc.gov/ (ITMRA of 1996 is part of Defense Authorization Act for FY96, s.1124)
• Information Technology Management Reform Act of 1996 (ITMRA), full text (Local copy)
• ITMRA summary (Local copy)
• Chief Financial Officers Act of 1990 (Local copy)

• Government Performance and Results Act of 1993 (GPRA) (Local copy), full text
• Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) of 1993 (Local copy), different formatting
• OMB Report on GPRA, May 1997 (Local copy) (incl section on strategic planning)

• Government Management Reform Act of 1994 (Local copy)
• Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (Local copy)
• Telecommunications Act of 1996 (Local copy)

• GAO Report, Privatization: Lessons Learned by State and Local Government (Local copy)
• GAO Information Technology Investment Evaluation Guide
• GAO Summary of Clinger-Cohen, Paperwork Reduction Act, GPRA, FASA, CFO Act, Exec Order 13011, OMB Circulars A-11,94,109,123,127, and 130
• GAO Executive Guide: Effectively Implementing the Government Performance and Results Act

• Reinventing Government, National Performance Review (NPR) archive
  • GPRA Documents, at NPR archives

Government Strategic Plans

• Defense, The Report of the Quadrennial Defense Review
• EPA Strategic Plan
• FEMA, Strategic Plan
• HHS Strategic Plan
• NASA Strategic Plan
• NRC Strategic Plan
• NSF Strategic Plan
• OPM, Strategic plan
• State Department Strategic Planning
• VA Strategic Plan

Government Performance Plans

• OMB - Governmentwide Budget and Performance Integration
• DOD - Performance Plan, see the Annual Defense Report
• DOJ - Annual Performance Report and Plans
• DOT - Reports, including Performance Report
• OPM - Congressional Budget Justification, Annual Performance Plan
• VA - Performance Analysis

The Electronic College of Process Innovation

• DoD Process Innovation
  Look for links off stuff below. Also, can sometimes find full text of abstracted/referenced works by using words/phrases from here to do search on Google or other search site.
  
  • A Course on Facilitation Skills, (GOOD) The Electronic College of Process Innovation
  • The Serious Business of Fun, The Electronic College of Process Innovation
  • Document Listing by Topic
  • Documents re: Civilian Personnel Management, listed by The Electronic College of Process Innovation
  • Documents re: Financial Management, listed by The Electronic College of Process Innovation
  • Documents re: Materiel Management, listed by The Electronic College of Process Innovation
  • Topic: Creativity & Innovative Thinking Skills, case studies, papers, etc.
  • Topic: Ethics, case studies, papers, etc.
  • Topic: Information Technologies, case studies, papers, etc.
  • Topic: Leadership & Management, case studies, papers, etc.
  • Topic: Strategic & Business Planning, case studies, papers, etc.
  • Topic: Teams and Teamwork, case studies, papers, etc.
  • Topic: Training & Learning, case studies, papers, etc.
  • Functional Process Improvement Fundamentals, 7 chapter course (local copy) -- Previous/Next links work
    • Introduction to Strategic Planning, Chap 3 of Functional Process Improvement Fundamentals

Basic Process Improvement (BPI)

• US Navy Pacific Fleet's Handbook for Basic Process Improvement (BPI) (local copy)

Risk Assessment and Analysis

• A Framework for Military Decision Making under Risks (abstract) (full copy), by Schultz, School of Advanced Airpower Studies (SAAS) -- see especially Chapter 2, Military Decision Making and Prospect Theory

• Risk Perception & Strategic Decision Making: General Insights, a New Framework, and Specific Application to Electricity Generation Using Nuclear Energy (local copy), by Brewer, Sandia National Labs, Nov 2005 - some good generic discussion included, such as ten critical thinking processes, with examples for each

• Society for Risk Analysis (SRA)
• Palisade Corporation, risk assessment software
• RiskWorld News, stories and links about risk analysis stuff
• RiskWorld Web Sites, risk-related, by types of risk/analysis
• Risk-Related Research at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
• "Controlling Dangers: The Truth About Risk Assessment" by National Science Foundation

Operational Risk Management (ORM)

• USAF Risk Management Information System (RMIS), including bulletin board, tools, lessons learned, links, training materials, and ORM University

• Operational Risk Management (ORM) handbook, Marine Corps Institute (local copy)
• Operational Risk Management home page, Naval Safety Center
• Operational Risk Management (ORM) Assessment, the Five-Step Process, Navy form (local copy)

Capital Asset Pricing Model

• Capital Asset Pricing Model, resources online
• Solving an Empirical Puzzle in the Capital Asset Pricing Model, working paper of Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, countering arguments against CAPM

Collaborative/Cooperative Work/Software

• Groupware and Usability
• MIT Center for Coordination Science (CCS)
  • WWW Sites Associated with CCS
• Internet Resources on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), incl bibliographies, research institutes, applications, conferences, and web resources

Theories/Theorists, incl Mintzberg

• Coordination, comments drawn from Mintzberg's "Structure in Fives: Designing Effective Organizations"
• The Five Basic Parts of an Organization (according to Henry Mintzberg)
• Handouts for MB 021 08, Intro to Organizational Behavior, Prof. Borgatti, Boston College
• Communication Structure and its Effect on Task Performance, the Leavitt experiment

Simulations and Modeling

• National Budget Simulation, site is sometimes down, sometimes up
• Strategy and Conflict: An Introductory Sketch of Game Theory
• Al Roth's Game Theory and Experimental Economics Page

• See also Simulations & Exercises page

Scenario Building

• See Scenarios and Scenario Planning on Future Studies page

• Scenario Articles page, Global Business Network (GBN)
• How to Build Scenarios, by Lawrence Wilkinson

Using Focus Groups

• Using Focus Groups for Evaluation

Nominal Group Method

• Guidelines for Using the Nominal Group Technique

Decision Analysis

• See Analysis and Decision Making on Thinking Skills page

Force Field Analysis

• Force Field Analysis: Understanding The Pressures For and Against Change, from Mind Tools
• Force Field Analysis, internet resources

Trends/News Sources

Includes many of those recommended by Schwartz in his book.

• Utne Reader Online
• Harper's Magazine, preview and index
• Scientific American, magazine
• The Economist, magazine
• New Scientist, magazine
• World Future Society
• The Futurist, magazine
• Future Survey, monthly abstract of books, articles, and reports re: future
• Futurist Bookshelf
• The New York Times, newspaper
• MIT's Technology Review, magazine
• American Journal of Physics
• National Academy of Sciences, and National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine, and National Research Council
• Popular Science Online, magazine
• Science News Online, magazine
• Discovery Channel Online
• Discover, magazine
• HotWired, online magazine
• "Freeman Dyson's Brain", interview with futurist in Wired magazine
• Wired, magazine, incl good archive of articles

Bibliographies/Other References

• A Bibliography (Local)

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