Light foot print strategy (english)
The article of Charles Edward Ring, member of the Executive Committee of Roland Berger in Les Echos, is interesting. It develops an analogy between the U.S. military strategy and the company's future. Taking the idea that military organizations prefigure the future (see or review on this many elements in Transit City). Try to apply these trends to the fields of mobility and transport companies.
Skills selected for this future are “VUCA”: Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and Ambiguous. These concepts have been mentioned several times in this blog (see in particular the MetaNote 11 Introduction to complex thought). Given these elements, the strategy can be summed up by "light foot print": increase agility, adaptability to future unknown, the learning of new techniques and new environments quickly, form yourself continuously. The proposed seven principles describe in MetaNote 1 to survive across crisis. On the contrary, all wars yesterday were based on pyramidal structures and heavy equipments. Thus the light becomes the main feature, and the footprint the symbol.
Specifically, this strategy results in three actions: Drone, Special Forces and cyber attacks. A fourth element seems necessary: Spy. How can we translate these strategic choices in the industrial world ?