17.40s
Military Innovation: Technology, Strategy and the Security Future
June 13-15, 2005
In a security environment that promises increasing stress, the United States seeks to gain advantage by utilizing its significant technological and organizational strengths. The course, taught by the faculty of the MIT Security Studies Program and other experts, examines the opportunities for significant innovation in all aspects of warfare. The sources of likely conflict and the system requirements that they may generate are also explored. The sessions involve discussion of service, joint, and coalition based solutions.
17.50s
Promoting Innovation: The Dynamics of Technology and Organizations
July 11-14, 2005
Both public and private organizations are concerned with keeping pace with a fast changing environment. This usually requires a constant effort to be innovative. Yet attempts to innovate are usually disruptive, cause internal dissension, and often fail. This course, taught by MIT affiliates, explores organizational strategies that can sustain significant innovation. The focus is on the environmental and internal incentives for change. Comparisons between public and private experience and successful and failed innovations are examined.
17.60s
Combating Bioterrorism:
Implementing Policies for Biosecurity
July 25-27, 2005
The threat of bioterrorism poses new challenges for agencies that now have the added responsibility to ensure biosecurity. Public health, law enforcement and national security agencies all face new priorities, including learning to collaborate with each other. Implementing these new priorities will require significant organizational change. But agencies have deeply imbedded professional norms and organizational cultures, which resist change. MIT Security Studies Program affiliates and other experts in public health and law enforcement explore the obstacles to effective implementation, and strategies to overcome them.
