1. Joint Concept Development and Experimentation Delivering Innovation
Dennis Popiela
The MITRE Corp.
J9, USJFCOM
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2. The Innovator’s Dilemma (1997)
Clayton M. Christensen
The Innovator’s Dilemma (1997)
Great firms fail by doing everything right
The Innovator’s Solution (2003)
Creating and sustaining successful growth

3. The Innovator’s Dilemma
Sustaining vs. Disruptive Technologies
Technological progress can often outstrip market needs
Financial structures favor certain investment strategies

4. Delivering Innovation
Conventional S-Curve
(Macro View)
Conventional S-Curves
(Micro View)
Period of ‘Disruptive Innovation’
Purpose: Attain market dominance
Method: Put current capability
or technology out of business
Thinking Skill Set
Leadership
Focus
Processes _
Sustaining Disruptive
Innovation Innovation
t (or effort)
Product Performance
Period of ‘Sustaining Innovation’
Purpose: Maintain Market Dominance
Method: Continuous Product Improvement
[Reference: The Innovator’s Dilemma by Clayton M. Christensen]

5. Delivering Innovation
Period of Competition
(Exercises/Experiments/Operations)
Joint Prototyping Path activities
Period of Concept Development
= Discovery
= Refinement/
Improvement
Period of
Prototyping
Sustaining
Innovation:
Materiel
Doctrine
Training
Current Ops
Joint Concept Development Path activities
Transition Decision Points

6. Delivering Innovation
DECISION POINTS
= What concepts To develop?
= What concepts become prototypes?
3. = What prototypes become fielded capabilities?

7. Delivering Innovation
Hand-off to institutionalize
Standing Joint Force Headquarters (SJFHQ) Concept and it’s enablers – the outcome of MC02
(Chairman’s Guidance for CINCUSJFCOM Joint Experimentation, 2 November, 2001) ?
Future Prototype Decisions ?
Joint Operations Concepts (JOpsC) and Actionable Recommendations
(TPG Directed, April, 2003)
(JROC Approved, 17 April, 2003)
(JROCM Approved, 22 May, 2003)
(JROCM Modified, 20 Oct 2003)
Joint Operating Others
Concepts
Stability Operations Joint Forcible Entry Ops
Major Combat Operations Joint Deployment,
Employment, and Sustainment
Joint Urban Operations
DECISION POINTS
= What concepts To develop?
= What concepts become prototypes?
= What prototypes become fielded capabilities?
USE 8TRACK, CASSETTE CD, MP3 ANALOGY
Rapid Decisive Operations (RDO) - featured Millennium Challenge 2002 (MC02) concept (CJCS Guidance, 17 April, 2000)

8. Transition Decisions Decision Point Four Decision Point Three
(What prototypes become fielded capabilities?)
Decision Point Three
(What prototypes should be embedded into training?)
Decision Point Two
(What concepts
become prototypes?)
Decision Point One
(What concepts
to develop?)
2 Path Strategy

9. JFCOM Office of Prototype Oversight
Transition Decisions
JFCOM Office of Prototype Oversight
Staff (SES, GS-15, Contractor, FFRDC (3))
Develop prototype process within JFCOM
Provide CDR with transition decision points

10. Questions