In the view of global security,(2011) The military decision making process abbreviated as MDMP is a planning model that establishes procedures for analyzing a mission, developing and comparing courses of action(COA) that are best suited to accomplish the higher commander’s intention and mission. The MDMP comprise of seven stages and each stage depends on the previous step to produce its own output. This means that a mistake in the early stage will affect all the other stages that follow. These steps include: Receipt of mission. In this stage, the commander receives an order for the mission to be carried out. The military staff then embarks on the data collection and information gathering that is necessary and relevant to conduct mission …show more content…
COA comparison. Every COA is compared with another to determine which COA will best accomplish the mission with minimum risks. Staff is free to make observations and recommendations of the preferred option before the commander. Course of Action Approval. The commander makes a choice of the best COA which meets his intent and selects CCIR based on the chosen COA. The staff then receives the order to produce rehearsals to conduct, and prioritize CS and CSS. Orders production. The plan is published following the commander’s approval and guidance which is normally a brief, oral order or a digital order with graphical overlays. Rapid Decision Making and Synchronization Process (RDSP) Rapid decision making is an acronym or a technique that describes the roles and responsibilities for clear decision making for any organization including military combats. This decision making process has five basic stages which are embodied in the name itself (RAPID) namely: Recommend. This stage involves information gathering and data collection and identification of variances during execution and likely changes that might take place. Input. This stage takes into account all the material facts that brought by each individual or staff and the commander looks at their practicability and any possible maneuver. Agree/Approve. This entails having a closer negotiation of staff and
Mission command consist of the following six principles: build cohesive teams through mutual trust, create sheared understanding, provide clear commander’s
Define Stage: Benchmark and baseline the process. Structure and decompose the process into controllable sub-processes.
7. Collect data 8. Process data 9. Analyze data 10. Write report/present findings 11. Action
When the task is to conduct an offensive operation, the CCIR and PIR that you answer will drive the COA for future operations.
Finish. After completing the first two phase the process leads into a critical operation on the target. As the operation will be based on targeting parts of a bigger organisation, network or achieving other goals like political, social or even psychological effects. Therefore this process is about finishing an operation not about destroying enemy forces. The end of this phase will start the main effort.
Stage 3: Deployment. That final stage involves using the model selected as best in the previous stage and applying it to new data in order to generate predictions or estimates of the expected outcome."
* Here is the final stage of decision-making process which involves collecting information on how well the decision is working.
Second step is to decide the interest of population, which varies from a set of particular clients to the broader community. Third step deals with the specifications to recognize whether the modification is an effect of enhanced measures to test that modification. The final and the fourth step is to observe the difference that you might do that is what modifications that you might try to create a development and then involve in “modification tests” where all these modifications are done with an intention to develop.
The fifth phase is called the operations phase. The operation phase is simply making sure all activities are sustained and function properly. Not only making sure the objects are working, but also providing support, updates, and repairs.
The Readiness Phases ensure that human competencies and technical infrastructures can fully carry the whole investigation process; this stage is subdividedinto two phases:
The third step is the design stage which involves the requirements for the design of the technology, and these include data layers, programming language, and the data services. This stage helps in implementing a design that highlights the coverage of the business logic that was analyzed at the previous stage. The next step is the coding which involves writing the sources of the actual code that will be used in the implementation of the business logic, the models, and the integrations of the services that had been generated earlier. The fifth stage is a testing step where testers such as beta testers are solving issues that arise out of the application (Petersen & Baca, 2009). However, this stage usually tends to repeat the coding stage so that there can be proper squashing of the detected bugs. The final stage is the operation stage where the application is considered complete and can be deployed. Besides, this stage involves maintenance and support in ensuring the application remains updated and fully operational (Petersen & Baca, 2009).
* Stage three objectives is obtaining the information necessary to solve the problem or issue.
This is the process of determining the goals, what needs to be done to complete tasks, how to achieve positive output and who will put efforts to accomplish those goals.
It is the procedure of figuring out what tasks are to be done, who is to them, how the assignments are to be gathered, who reports to whom and where choices are to be made.
From the problems that arose after the merge with Veritas, Symantec developed decisions and strategies process to help with the growing issues. (Robbins 2011, p.60) defines the decision-making process as a set of steps that range from identifying the problem, choosing an appropriate solution and evaluating how effective it is.