Organisational Learning and the Modern Army: A New Model for Lessons-Learned Processes

This book explores best practice in army lessons-learned processes, analyzing organizational processes and activities to improve tactical- and operational-level learning in two key NATO armies. It provides a comparative analysis of the variables that facilitate or impede the emergence of best practice, making an important contribution to the scholarship on knowledge management and learning in public organizations.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 262 pages
Publication date: 31 March 2021
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Drawing upon extensive original research, this comprehensive book delves into the realm of best practices in army lessons-learned processes. In the absence of effective learning mechanisms, military adaptation can be hindered, or the broader lessons derived from adaptation can be easily overlooked, necessitating the re-learning of lessons in the field, often at significant human and financial expense. This book conducts a thorough analysis of the organizational processes and activities that can enhance tactical- and operational-level learning through case studies of lessons learned in two pivotal NATO armies: that of Britain and of Germany. By offering the first comparative examination of the factors that facilitate or impede the emergence of best practice in military learning, it makes a substantial contribution to the growing body of scholarship on knowledge management and learning in public organizations. This book holds immense interest for lessons-learned practitioners and students engaged in military and strategic studies, defense studies, organization studies, and security studies.

Weight: 508g
Dimension: 234 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780367786014