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The Most Important and Most Misunderstood Concept in Business - Opportunity Cost

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You hear a lot in business how strategy is as much about what you will not do as what you will do yet companies can't seem to turn anything off. Time, of course, is your most valuable resource and that is completely fungible. Many of you know I served in the military and we called this the " Principle of The Concentration of Forces".

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How did we get here? Building the Defence logistician – Part One

Logistics in War

Everyone in the room is probably quite confident that they have a definition of what a logistician is; whether you agree with one another is another question. Logistics, much like strategy and tactics, is a process or a way of thinking. Defence budgets began to decline, and strategy redeveloped to suit a ‘peace dividend’.

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The realities of logistics and strategic leadership: lessons from the ADF’s senior-most logisticians – Part 1

Logistics in War

I have been extremely fortunate to interview a range of senior military officers and public servants through the course of academic research in 2017. Strategy is a concept of relating means to end; it is complex and subtle and is about thinking, vision, learning as opposed to planning. Strategic failure.

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The realities of logistics and strategic leadership: lessons from the ADF’s senior-most logisticians

Logistics in War

Through the course of 2017, and because of my academic research, I have been extremely fortunate to interview a range of senior military officers and public servants. Strategy is a concept of relating means to end; it is complex and subtle and is about thinking, vision, learning as opposed to planning. By David Beaumont.

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How did we get here? Building the Defence logistician ? Part One

Logistics in War

Everyone in the room is probably quite confident that they have a definition of what a logistician is; whether you agree with one another is another question. Logistics, much like strategy and tactics, is a process or a way of thinking. Defence budgets began to decline, and strategy redeveloped to suit a ‘peace dividend’.

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Industry integration – a new approach and attitude to Army logistics

Logistics in War

Logistics is the stored potential of a military force, and industry is the battery from which energy is drawn. One military theorist compared logistics to a bridge between the national economy and the battlefield, one where raw materials, goods and services are shaped through relationships and processes to achieve military outcomes.

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The realities of logistics and strategic leadership – ‘2018 edition’

Logistics in War

In late 2017 I published a post of anecdotes, observations and lessons given by senior officers contacted through the course of academic research. The concept of a ‘core organisation’ is foreign to a military culture that often links ownership with capability. By David Beaumont. Logisticians and the ‘spirit of the age’.