Culture Change and Modernizing Navy Logistics
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Authors
Higgins, Susan
Gallenson, Ann
Subjects
culture change
learning organizations
innovation
agile organizations
agile leaders
logistics modernization
learning organizations
innovation
agile organizations
agile leaders
logistics modernization
Advisors
Date of Issue
2018-04
Date
Presented April 10-12, 2018
Period of Performance: 10/01/2017-12/30/2018
Period of Performance: 10/01/2017-12/30/2018
Publisher
Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School
Language
en_US
Abstract
Project Summary: This project considers how to accelerate culture change within Navy logistics organizations in step with the continuing modernization efforts. Our findings integrate previous culture change research with updated reviews of literature, discussions with logistics leaders and key stakeholders. Additionally, we are designing the capacity for extending the socialization of modernization concepts through "design sprints" that enable us to gather inputs from a diverse population of key stakeholders and outputs from personnel within the logistics community. The final report includes the capacity designed and the results of early events. As the Navy Logistics community reforms and modernizes its technologies, processes, and organizations; leaders recognize that change is dependent not on their actions alone but on the organizational culture, which can enhance or impede adoption. Culture arises as a shared understanding of current and future pressures. It changes by adapting to external and internal forces (Schein, 1985). Initially, people often resist change. The Navy's bureaucratic systems are designed for stability, not agility; reliability rather than responsiveness. By increasing the agility of its organizations and leaders, the logistics community will be able to better respond to its customers, naval and joint warfighters, who operate in turbulent environments across a spectrum of combat to humanitarian missions. The ultimate goal is to increase the lethality of naval and joint warfighters.
Type
Report
Description
NPS NRP Executive Summary
Series/Report No
Department
Information Sciences (IS)
Organization
Naval Research Program
Identifiers
NPS Report Number
NPS-18-N386-A
Sponsors
OPNAV N4
Funder
NPS-18-N386-A
Format
4 p.
Citation
Distribution Statement
Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited.
Rights
This publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States.