Title: Organizational Agility Topic 7: C2 Approaches and Organization

Organizational Agility has been discussed during SAS-065 NATO NEC Command and Control Maturity Model development, the Exploratory Team on C2 Agility, and other similar research efforts. In these contexts, agility is being defined as the ability to recognize changes in situation complexity and move quickly to the most appropriate C2 approach (edge, collaborative, coordinated, or de-conflicted). Proposed agility attributes are robustness, resilience, responsiveness, flexibility, innovation, and adaptation (Alberts & Hayes, 2003). However, more research is needed to determine how these attributes and their intensity relate to agility. This paper presents a conceptual model that helps us understand how certain agility attributes contribute to an organization's potential and dynamic behaviour particularly dynamic transitions from one C2 approach to the next. Conceptually, a motion system may be used as a metaphor to understand the organization's dynamic behaviour. Under this metaphor, it follows that mass is analogous to organization size attribute, damping factor is related to organization resistance to change attribute, and spring constant is equivalent to organization flexibility attribute. We find that Organizational Agility is the ability for an organization to optimize its attributes through compensatory, anticipatory, adaptive, and learning methods. Modelling and simulation is used to illustrate various C2 Approach transition profiles by varying organization size, resistance, and flexibility, while case studies are used to provide anecdotal evidence for the model.