Strategic Planning: June 9, 2021
Title: Military Planning Process Applied to Business Strategies: How Can You Create a Cyclic Analysis Framework to Better Meet your Business Goals?
Presented By: Annie Patenaude, U.S. Army, Retired Officer; Managing Director, AMP Analytics; Fellow, Military Operations Research Society; Former Principal, Booz Allen Hamilton; Former Director, Office of the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense (Readiness); Former Assistant Professor of Mathematics, United States Military Academy, West Point.
Description: Military planning is methodical and rigorous, whether the planning is at the Strategic, Tactical, or Operational level. It is mission-focused, and has to be comprehensive, with effective and efficient use of resources available. Once the plan is executed, military leaders assess what went well and what could be improved. Using this framework, business leaders can organize around their business mission and goals, and align their strategies and actions to best achieve their success.
Learning Outcomes:
- Using a basic framework in military planning, participants will be able to align that to a business strategy that includes elements of planning, execution, and assessment.
- Participants will be able to utilize this framework to assess mission and goals and turn those into traceable/measurable objectives and actions.
- Participants will be able to review how the military uses after action reviews to evaluate actions and adjust business objectives to better meet mission and goals.
Biography: Annie Patenaude is a retired Army Field Artillery Officer and Mathematician. After her initial Army operational assignments, Annie taught Mathematics at West Point and served in Operations Research positions in the Pentagon.
Annie’s other work experience includes:
- SAIC, lead for modeling and simulation policy support to several offices in the Pentagon. Wrote landmark study in reuse of simulations used in the acquisition process led to the adoption of Simulation-Based Acquisition, and subsequently use of Simulation Support Plans.
- Northrop Grumman in the business development organization as an Executive Account Manager, and later Strategic Plans and Programs.
- Director of the Joint Assessment and Enabling Capability in the Office of the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense (Readiness), one of the three facets of Training Transformation. Working with leadership in the Joint Forces Command and the Military Services, designed and implemented a joint training analysis framework, developing metrics and feedback mechanisms toward increasing joint training effectiveness and efficiency,
- Principal in Booz Allen Hamilton. Key asset in the capability service areas of modeling and simulation (M&S) and operations research analysis with specific expertise in integrated Live, Virtual, and Constructive Simulation practices and policies for the US Department of Defense.
Currently, Annie works through AMP Analytics as an independent consultant to small businesses and Federally Funded Research and Development Centers, supporting Army, Navy, Homeland Defense, and Department of Defense clients in studies and analysis including strategic planning, enterprise M&S solutions, and operations research analysis.
She has subject matter expertise in Modeling and Simulation Policy, Test and Evaluation, Training Assessments, Operations Research Analysis, and Strategic Planning. Annie is a Fellow of the Society in the Military Operations Research Society. She also serves as the Operations Director for the Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation, and Education Conference. She holds a Bachelor of Science and a Masters of Arts degree in Mathematics.
