Tab. 1:
Contours for the character of the transformative commander
| Five values | ||||
| Innovativeness | Entrepreneurial | Educative | Professional | Responsible |
| Exhibits critical, innovative, and refreshing thinking | Dares and initiate | Learns and teaches | A thorough and sceptical professional | The battlefield’s fate is in his hands |
| Five norms | ||||
| Renew | Shape partnerships | Shape culture | Shape the organisation | Be dedicated |
| Encouraging adaptation and relevant entrepreneurship | Multi-dimensionality encouraging communality and working in a matrix | Enabling, encouraging, entrepreneurship and supporting ventures | As an enabling platform | To emerging processes in a complex world |
| Five core functions | ||||
| Transformation | Build the force | Crises | Study and investigation | Diagnostics |
| Navigate and jetstart transformation procedures without shocking the system | Promote and actively complete force build-up and force reconstruction | Declaring crises, leading them and leveraging them as growth processes | Building a range of learning and knowledge development processes and mechanisms | Identifying emerging changes in complex reality |
| Five management skills | ||||
| Measurement | Investment | Streamlining | Force build-up | Innovation system |
| Incentivising to achieve innovation | Boldness and risk-taking with new experiences | Striving to constantly improve the organisation and how its functions | Driving adaptive industrialised and robust processes | Accelerating renewal by managing opportunity funnel |
| Five first steps | ||||
| Investigate | Harness | Delve in | Gain experience | Persist |
Fig. 1:
The shift between 4th and 5th generation CINOs in the IDF. CINOs, chief innovation officers; IDF, Israel Defense Forces.
Fig. 2:
The Change Agent System. STE3P, Social, Technological, Economic, Environmental, Educational and Political; VUCA, Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity.
Fig. 3:
The Innovation Management System. PDCA, Plan–Do–Check–Act; STE3P, Social, Technological, Economic, Environmental, Educational and Political; VUCA, Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity.