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Introduction
Throughout history, organizations, companies, tribes, and commands have had to cooperate with each other to reach their mutual objectives. For example:
* The Sioux and Cheyenne were obliged to merge to fight Custer
* Professional sports teams work with the front office
* Proctor and Gamble discovered it had to cooperate with Wal-Mart
* The power transmission unit of a utility has to get in step with the distribution side of the house
* Military commands, staffs and components have to focus on an agreed main thing to ensure mission success
This paper offers a proven approach to using the power of organizational alignment both to capitalize on the strengths and to address the corporate impediments of organizations that rely on each other in order to work together, that form an entity of their own. These considerations focus on opportunities for operational synergy and greater cooperation by:
* Performing a culture dig (1) to analyze the culture and the operational environment
* Using an alignment model to identify areas of internal and external alignment at every level
* Building a structure tree to clarify key areas for organizational focus and action
The model applies to practically all large organizations and will use North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) and U.S. Northern Command (USNORTHCOM) as illustrative examples.
In the years since Canada and the United States first signed the NORAD Agreement on May 12, 1958, NORAD has evolved to deal with continuing changes in the character of strategic weapons and in the nature of the threat they have posed to North America. At the end of the Cold War, we witnessed dramatic changes in the geostrategic environment, which shifted the focus of North American aerospace defense. The traditional Cold War threat has altered, both in terms of the nations or groups that might choose to challenge North American security and the weapons that could be employed.
Strategic arms reduction treaties and other arms control initiatives continue to promise deep cuts in strategic ballistic missile nuclear forces. However, large residual nuclear arsenals capable of striking our continent will still exist after programmed reductions are made. Meanwhile, we continue to read about other nations which are attempting to acquire nuclear-capable ballistic missiles and other weapons of mass destruction (WMD).
The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, represented another dramatic change in the security of North American; thus the creation of USNORTHCOM. Since then, the overall threat to the North American continent has greatly increased, and the proliferation of WMD and their delivery systems to state and non-state actors has emerged... |
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