| Warfighting and Disruptive Technologies: Disguising Innovation Contributor(s): Pierce, Terry (Author) |
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ISBN: 0714655473 ISBN-13: 9780714655475 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $161.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: August 2004 Annotation: Occasionally, militaries during times of peace achieve major warfighting innovations. Terry Pierce calls these 'disruptive innovations'. The more common innovation phenomenon, however, has been that of integrating new technologies to help perform existing missions better and not change them radically. The author calls these 'sustaining innovations'. The central theme of this book is that senior leaders who have successfully managed disruptive innovations disguised them as sustaining in order to ensure their innovations survived. The recent innovation history suggests two interesting questions. First, how can senior military leaders achieve a disruptive innovation when they are heavily engaged around the world and they are managing sustaining innovations? Second, what have been the external sources of disruptive (and sustaining) innovations? |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Education | Teaching Methods & Materials - Arts & Humanities - Technology & Engineering | Engineering (general) - Political Science | Security (national & International) |
| Dewey: 355 |
| Series: Strategy and History |
| Physical Information: 0.83" H x 6.26" W x 9.28" (1.25 lbs) 284 pages |
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| Publisher Description: Occasionally, during times of peace, military forces achieve major warfighting innovations. Terry Pierce terms these developments 'disruptive innovations' and shows how senior leaders have often disguised them in order to ensure their innovations survived. He shows how more common innovations however, have been those of integrating new technologies to help perform existing missions better and not change them radically. The author calls these 'sustaining innovations'. The recent innovation history suggests two interesting questions. First, how can senior military leaders achieve a disruptive innovation when they are heavily engaged around the world and they are managing sustaining innovations? Second, what have been the external sources of disruptive (and sustaining) innovations? This book is essential reading for professionals and students interested in national security, military history and strategic issues. |