SECURITY AND DEFENSE R&D MANAGEMENT IN THE CONTEXT OF PUBLIC MANAGEMENT Col. Venelin Georgiev, PhD, Dipl. Eng. State expert Armaments and Equipment Policy Directorate Bulgarian MoD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE SECURITY AND DEFENSE R&D MANAGEMENT: POLICY, CONCEPTS AND MODEL Bulgaria, Varna, May 2008

OVERVIEW: 1. SECURITY AND DEFENSE R&D MANAGEMENT PRINCIPLES, PHASES, LEVELS AND COMPONENTS 2. HUMAN RESOURCES IN SECURITY AND DEFENSE R&D MANAGEMENT

PR1: Dinamic character of the development as a process PR 2: Specific features of each management process Ensuring the necessary level of stability Ensuring the necessary level of flexibility Security and defense R&D management process needs specific policies, concepts and models They must be in concordance with the common management concepts Balance COMMON MANAGEMENT PRINCIPLES

PLACE AND ROLE OF THE MANAGEMENT TECHNOLOGIES MANAGEMENT CAPACITY MANAGEMENT POTENTIAL STRUCTURE TECHNOLOGY INFORMATION PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT APPLYING THE POTENTIAL EFFECTS FROM APPLYING THE POTENTIAL AGENDA DECISION TAKING PROCESS DECISION INPLEMENTING PROCESS RESULTS MEASURES OF EFFECTIVENES WE WANT TO ACHIEVE THE PLANNED RESULTS WE CAN OR WE HAVE ACHIEVED THESE RESULTS

ROLE OF THE SECURITY AND DEFENSE R&D POLICY, CONCEPTS AND MODEL In the context of the previous slide, in the area of defense and security R&D management it is quite important: - the R&D policy to create conditions and to define as a goal - the R&D concepts to determine as a task - the R&D model to ensure the practical capabilities for implementing regular and rational actualization and development of the applied management technologies.

CRITICAL ANALYSIS METHOD WHAT? WHERE?WHO? WHEN? HOW? WHY? HAS ORGANISATIONAL AND STRUCTURAL CONTEXT. WHY? POINTS THE WAY, THAT COULD BE USED TO ACHIEVE WHAT IS ALREADY DEFINED. WHY? POINTS THE PERIOD OF TIME, WHEN THE DEFINED GOALS MUST BE ACHIEVED. WHY? POINTS WHO IS RESPONSIBLE OF ACHIEVING THE DEFINED GOALS. WHY? QUESTION, THAT ENSURES RATIONALITY OF THE ANSEWRS IDENTIFIES THE REAL CONTENT OF THE MANAGEMENT PROCESS. WHY?

SECURITY AND DEFENSE R&D MANAGEMENT PHASES, LEVELS AND COMPONENTS PLANNING Elements: ORGANISING EXECUTION CONTROL LEVELS: STRATEGIC TACTICAL OPERATIONAL COMPONENTS: POLICY GUIDANCE ATTENDANCE R&D PLANDAS IDRMS FMS R&D PROGRAM R&D BUDGET

ROLE OF THE SECURITY AND DEFENSE R&D POLICY, CONCEPTS AND MODEL - Is not the planning process of R&D activities too complicated and what is the level of the associated risk for the final results. - Is it clear enough the borderlines between the different management systems – DAS, IDRMS, FMS, which cover all activities within R&D management process. - Is it R&D management model efficient enough and does it work well on all management levels – strategic, tactical, operational. - Is it clear enough the content of different management components – policy, guidance and attendance/service for different management levels. - How can be assessed the achieved results from R&D management process by practically applied model from ROC point of view.

LEVELS OF SECURITY AND DEFENSE R&D MANAGEMENT TIMESPACE STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT OPERATIONAL MANAGEMENT TACTICAL MANAGEMENT Long Medium Short Macro Mezzo Micro RESOURCES All Significant Small

R&D MANAGEMENT LEVELS AND COMPONENTS INTEGRATION Table 1 Integration of defense and security R&D management levels and components. STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT TACTICAL MANAGEMENT OPERATIONAL MANAGEMENT POLICYSTRATEGIC POLICYTACTICAL POLICY OPERATIONAL POLICY GUIDANCE STRATEGIC GUIDANCE TACTICAL GUIDANCE OPERATIONAL GUIDANCE ADMINISTATING STRATEGIC ADMINISTRATING TACTICAL ADMINISTRATING OPERATIONAL ADMINISTRATING LEVELS COMPONENTS

ELITE - CREATION PROCESS F 1 F 2 COLLEAGUES AUDIENCE SOCIAL FILTERS PROFECIONAL ASSESSMENT AUDIENCE ASSESSMENT TALANTS – THE BEST IN THE AREA STARS – THE MOST PROMINENT ELITE

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