Joint Concept Development and Experimentation Delivering Innovation

1. Joint Concept Development and Experimentation Delivering Innovation Dennis Popiela The MITRE Corp. J9, USJFCOM (757)836-2294 dpopiela@mitre.org or dennis.popiela@je.jfcom.mil

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

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

6. Delivering Innovation

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

8. 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

9. Questions