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Bridging IDF force-design complexities: Blueprint for bottom-up innovation – The emergence of transformational commanders and 5th Gen CINOs Cover

Bridging IDF force-design complexities: Blueprint for bottom-up innovation – The emergence of transformational commanders and 5th Gen CINOs

By: Michal Frenkel and  David Alkaher  
Open Access
|Aug 2024

Figures & Tables

Fig. 1:

The shift between 4th and 5th generation CINOs in the IDF. CINOs, chief innovation officers; IDF, Israel Defense Forces.
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.
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.
The Innovation Management System. PDCA, Plan–Do–Check–Act; STE3P, Social, Technological, Economic, Environmental, Educational and Political; VUCA, Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity.

Contours for the character of the transformative commander

Five values
InnovativenessEntrepreneurialEducativeProfessionalResponsible
Exhibits critical, innovative, and refreshing thinkingDares and initiateLearns and teachesA thorough and sceptical professionalThe battlefield’s fate is in his hands
Five norms
RenewShape partnershipsShape cultureShape the organisationBe dedicated
Encouraging adaptation and relevant entrepreneurshipMulti-dimensionality encouraging communality and working in a matrixEnabling, encouraging, entrepreneurship and supporting venturesAs an enabling platformTo emerging processes in a complex world
Five core functions
TransformationBuild the forceCrisesStudy and investigationDiagnostics
Navigate and jetstart transformation procedures without shocking the systemPromote and actively complete force build-up and force reconstructionDeclaring crises, leading them and leveraging them as growth processesBuilding a range of learning and knowledge development processes and mechanismsIdentifying emerging changes in complex reality
Five management skills
MeasurementInvestmentStreamliningForce build-upInnovation system
Incentivising to achieve innovationBoldness and risk-taking with new experiencesStriving to constantly improve the organisation and how its functionsDriving adaptive industrialised and robust processesAccelerating renewal by managing opportunity funnel
Five first steps
InvestigateHarnessDelve inGain experiencePersist
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jms-2024-0005 | Journal eISSN: 1799-3350 | Journal ISSN: 2242-3524
Language: English
Page range: 47 - 66
Submitted on: Oct 1, 2023
Accepted on: May 4, 2024
Published on: Aug 1, 2024
Published by: National Defense University
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 1 issue per year

© 2024 Michal Frenkel, David Alkaher, published by National Defense University
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