Date of Award

9-1991

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Science

First Advisor

Donald C. McNeeley, Lieutenant Commander, USN

Abstract

This thesis proposes a framework for evaluating sustainability in the Air Force and for determining an appropriate measure of effectiveness that is both meaningful in a military sense and useful in planning and programming decisions. Following a literature review of organizational performance measures and strategy formulation, Michael Porter's Competitive Analysis model for strategy selection was presented. This model was then used to evaluate case studies in which organizations faced strategic decisions and to suggest measures by which these organizations could determine their effectiveness. The model was then shown to be applicable to the Air Force, and recommendations on implementing such a framework to develop a new sustainability measure were proposed. These recommendations would be easy to implement because they require no investment in resources, only a different focus in collecting pertinent information. Furthermore, the same process could be used at all levels of organization and decision making.

AFIT Designator

AFIT-GLM-LSM-91S-67

DTIC Accession Number

ADA246748

Comments

The author's Vita page is omitted.

Presented to the Faculty of the School of Systems and Logistics of the Air Force Institute of Technology, Air University, in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Science

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