Conversion of a Commercial Working Vessel to a Minelayer

The U.S. Navy Surface Fleet currently possesses no minelaying capability, instead relying on air and submarine assets. In the context of growing challenges to U.S. naval supremacy, this represents a significant strategic capability gap. Due to the asymmetric nature of mine warfare, the only feasible solution to close that gap must be cost-effective. This study develops a concept design for the conversion of a commercially available working boat to a minelayer in the form of an affordable, modular and rapidly scalable “bolt-on” system with flexible implementation to a variety of parent hulls and payload capacities.

Strategic Capabilities for the Sustainability of Small, Medium, and Micro Enterprises

Sustainability of small, medium, and micro enterprises has been an issue due to the lack of strategic capability of many entrepreneurs. This chapter examines the strategic capabilities that are necessary for the sustainability of small, medium, and micro-enterprises. A literature review approach was adopted by the authors to examine the relationship between the measures of strategic capability of small, medium, and micro-enterprises, and the sustainability measures of the small, medium, and micro-enterprises. The result shows that there is a positive relationship between strategic capability and sustainability of small, medium, and micro-enterprises. The measures of strategic capability include sensing, seizing, transforming, and innovative capabilities. The sustainability measures of the small, medium and micro enterprises are strategic objectives, customer satisfaction, and retention, organisational value, networking, availability of resources, innovation capability, profitability, and organisational competitiveness.

Evaluation the methods of Educating Organizational Strategic Capability in Kerman Executive Organizations

Modernity and recent innovations and advances in information technology, human resources, marketing, and innovation have played a key role in accelerating the emergence of organizational strategic capabilities . Teaching the ways of It has become an essential issue for organizational success. Considering the importance of the subject, the objective of this article is to evaluate the available methods of teaching the organizational strategic capability in Kerman executive organizations. The present study is an applied research in terms of objective and descriptive in terms of nature and survey in terms of method. The statistical population of the study consisted of two groups. The first group consisted of experts including management professors who had knowledge on this subject and their number was unknown, and 30 of them were selected purposefully. The second group consisted of all employees of Kerman executive organizations. The sample size of employees was estimated to be 380 people based on Morgan table. They were selected by stratified random sampling. The researcher-made questionnaire consisted of 39 questions scored on Likert scale ranging from very low to very high. The content validity of the questions was examined, modified and verified by experts’ opinions. Cronbach's alpha coefficient of the variables was higher than 0.7, indicating the internal consistency of the items and confirming the reliability of the questions. Data were analyzed using exploratory factor analysis, univariate t-test, and Friedman test through SPSS software. According to the results, the status of organizational strategic capabilities was high in Kerman executive organizations. Also, IT and organizational structure had the highest priority among the dimensions of organizational strategic capabilities.

Strategic maturity desiderata of corporate capabilities - model ad its empirical veryfication

The subject of the research of this elaboration are strategic maturity desiderata of the corporate capability of manufacturing enterprises operating in the agricultural machinery sector. The vital goal of this study is to determine the level of partial (functional) maturities constituting the strategic capability of the investigated enterprises. Achieving the main objective required the formulation and implementation of partial goals, which were applied to outline: nomination of desiderata determining strategic maturity (literature query), compilation of the research model in the form of an assessment sheet (literature exploration and expert research) and recognition of the level of strategic maturity among manufacturers of the agricultural machinery sector (theoretical model validation). The considerations contained in the paper are embedded in social sciences, and more specifically; in the field of management and quality sciences.