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Bridging IDF force-design complexities: Blueprint for bottom-up innovation – The emergence of transformational commanders and 5th Gen CINOs

Michal Frenkel
Michal Frenkel
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David Alkaher
David Alkaher
   | Aug 01, 2024
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Article Category: Original Study
Published Online: Aug 01, 2024
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Received: Oct 01, 2023
Accepted: May 04, 2024
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jms-2024-0005
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Fig. 1:

The shift between 4th and 5th generation CINOs in the IDF. CINOs, chief innovation officers; IDF, Israel Defense Forces.
The shift between 4th and 5th generation CINOs in the IDF. CINOs, chief innovation officers; IDF, Israel Defense Forces.

Fig. 2:

The Change Agent System. STE3P, Social, Technological, Economic, Environmental, Educational and Political; VUCA, Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity.
The Change Agent System. STE3P, Social, Technological, Economic, Environmental, Educational and Political; VUCA, Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity.

Fig. 3:

The Innovation Management System. PDCA, Plan–Do–Check–Act; STE3P, Social, Technological, Economic, Environmental, Educational and Political; VUCA, Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity.
The Innovation Management System. PDCA, Plan–Do–Check–Act; STE3P, Social, Technological, Economic, Environmental, Educational and Political; VUCA, Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity.

Contours for the character of the transformative commander

Five values
Innovativeness Entrepreneurial Educative Professional Responsible
Exhibits critical, innovative, and refreshing thinking Dares and initiate Learns and teaches A thorough and sceptical professional The battlefield’s fate is in his hands
Five norms
Renew Shape partnerships Shape culture Shape the organisation Be dedicated
Encouraging adaptation and relevant entrepreneurship Multi-dimensionality encouraging communality and working in a matrix Enabling, encouraging, entrepreneurship and supporting ventures As an enabling platform To emerging processes in a complex world
Five core functions
Transformation Build the force Crises Study and investigation Diagnostics
Navigate and jetstart transformation procedures without shocking the system Promote and actively complete force build-up and force reconstruction Declaring crises, leading them and leveraging them as growth processes Building a range of learning and knowledge development processes and mechanisms Identifying emerging changes in complex reality
Five management skills
Measurement Investment Streamlining Force build-up Innovation system
Incentivising to achieve innovation Boldness and risk-taking with new experiences Striving to constantly improve the organisation and how its functions Driving adaptive industrialised and robust processes Accelerating renewal by managing opportunity funnel
Five first steps
Investigate Harness Delve in Gain experience Persist
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