1. Key Dimensions of Command and Control Approach
IAMWG Discussion
Sept. 8, 2004

2. Create analyses (consistencies, mapping to applications and goals)
Assessment
Create awareness
Create analyses (consistencies, mapping to applications and goals)
Communicate
Acceptance
Establish Goals
Create interests (goals)
Communicate/articulate (ourselves, others)
Inconsistencies, conflict, properties
Gain acceptance (awareness, shared awareness, understanding, agreement, and commitment)
Establish Approach (methods)
Create metrics
Allocate resources (incl. assessment of resources)
Feasibilities
Risk
Goals
Approach
Assessment
Execute
Real world

3. Characteristics of the Problem Situation
Simple
Complex
Wicked

4. Create Goals Authoritative
Source: informal, merit, formal, negotiated …
Structure: hierarchical, decentralized, fully distributed …
Negotiated
Voting
Collaborative
Emergent (tacit)

5. Articulate/Communicate Goals
Degree of Explicitness
Granularity, rationale, context, reliance on doctrine
Degree of Documentation
Dissemination Approach
Broadcast, “chain,” links, selective/consistent
Temporal
Horizon
Frequency
None (tacit)

6. Create Approach Authoritative
Source: informal, merit, formal, negotiated …
Structure: hierarchical, decentralized, fully distributed …
Negotiated
Voting
Collaborative
Emergent (tacit)

7. Articulate/Communicate Approach
Degree of Explicitness
Granularity, rationale, context, reliance on doctrine
Degree of Documentation
Dissemination Approach
Broadcast, “chain,” links, selective/consistent
Temporal
Horizon
Frequency
None (tacit)

8. Gain Acceptance Authoritative
Source: informal, merit, formal, negotiated …
Structure: hierarchical, decentralized, fully distributed …
Negotiated
Voting
Collaborative
Emergent (tacit)

9. Essential Dimensions of C2 Approach
Constraints (“Allowances”)
Allocation of Decision Rights
Explicit
Implicit
Patterns of Interactions
Distribution of Information
Ownership
Access
Dynamics across purpose
Dynamics across time

10. Uniformly Distributed Unitarily Distributed
Broad Dissemination
Distribution of Information
Tight Control
Fully Distributed
Pattern of Interaction
Fully Hierarchal
Uniformly Distributed
Unitarily Distributed
Distribution of Decision Rights

11. Uniformly Distributed Unitarily Distributed Classic C2
Broad Dissemination
Edge Organizations
Distribution of Information
Tight Control
Fully Distributed
Pattern of Interaction
Fully Hierarchal
Uniformly Distributed
Unitarily Distributed
Distribution of Decision Rights
Classic C2

12. Uniformly Distributed Unitarily Distributed
Broad Dissemination
Distribution of Information
Tight Control
Fully Distributed
Pattern of Interaction
Fully Hierarchal
Uniformly Distributed
Unitarily Distributed
Distribution of Decision Rights