Accession Number:

ADA461179

Title:

A Recognitional Planning Model

Descriptive Note:

Corporate Author:

KLEIN ASSOCIATES INC FAIRBORN OH

Personal Author(s):

• Schmitt, John
• Klein, Gary

Report Date:

1999-01-01

Pagination or Media Count:

14.0

Abstract:

Planning under conditions of uncertainty, time pressure, and other stressors is a complex cognitive activity for military command post staff members. The Army and the Marine Corps have developed formal planning models intended as step-by-step guides. However, these models are inconsistent with the actual strategies of skilled planners, and they slow down the decision cycle. As a result, the formal models are usually ignored in practice, in order to generate faster tempo. Yet some procedure is needed, to direct inexperienced staff and to coordinate the actions of a planning team. We present a Recognitional Planning Model RPM based on a series of observations of Army, Marine, and Naval command post exercises. The RPM applies the concept of recognitional decision making. The RPM is intended as a prescriptive model to increase the speed of planning, but it is also a descriptive model capturing the strategies of experienced planning teams.

Descriptors:

• *MILITARY OPERATIONS
• *DECISION MAKING
• *PLANNING
• UNCERTAINTY
• MILITARY DOCTRINE
• NAVAL OPERATIONS
• MILITARY EXERCISES
• TEAMS(PERSONNEL)
• COGNITION
• MODELS
• MARINE CORPS

Subject Categories:

• Administration and Management
• Military Operations, Strategy and Tactics

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE