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Certain to Win Boyd’s OODA Loop as a business weapon Chet Richards J. Addams & Partners, Inc. March 2006 Or, any position other than first is a tie for last.
Starting Point: Wars don’t always turn out as expected Israel Various Arab States Vietnam United States Afghanistan Soviet Union Chechnya Russia
Business doesn’t either Lost billions in 2001, 2002, 2003, & 2004 American Airlines Gone Digital Equipment, Compaq, Montgomery Ward, Eastern Airlines, TWA, Pan Am, McDonnell-Douglas In Chapter 11 Delta, Northwest, United Airlines, US Airways Dropped to #52 on Fortune 500 Sears Market share fell from 52% to around 25% General Motors
But it’s not inevitable IBM, Apple Computers Southwest, JetBlue, Singapore, Emirates, Ryanair, AirTran Airlines Wal-Mart, Target Retailing Toyota, Nissan Automobiles
In other words, there are many times when the side we’d pick to win, based on: ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],loses.
Why?
The military’s answer is something called “maneuver warfare” Gen Tommy Franks, Commander, USCENTCOM in Peter Boyer, “The New War Machine,” The New Yorker , June 30, 2003 And that is the business of decision cycles,  or inside the decision loop , as people say … if, in fact, you can deceive him with respect to what you are going to do, to cause him further confusion and make him keep his force in place one day too long, then, in fact, you find yourself all the way to Baghdad.
The primary advantage we want to achieve in all forms of maneuver is   time .
Using time as a weapon: The “H-Y War” 1981 - 1983 ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
H-Y War: The Results ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],Comment:  a classic example of “shaping the marketplace.”
A time-compressed company does the same thing as a pilot in an OODA loop … It’s the competitor who acts on information faster who is in the best position to win. George Stalk, Jr. & Tom Hout, Competing Against Time , 180-181.
Business is a dogfight. Your job as a leader:  Outmaneuver the competition, respond decisively to fast-changing conditions, and defeat your rivals. That's why the OODA loop, the brainchild of "40 Second" Boyd, an unconventional fighter pilot, is one of today's most important ideas in battle or in business. Keith Hammonds, “The Strategy of the Fighter Pilot,”  Fast Company , June 2002.
This is the OODA loop Observe Act Orient Decide
This is  not  the OODA loop Observe Act Orient Decide
An OODA “loop” with power Feed Forward Observe Decide Act Action (Test) Implicit Guidance & Control Implicit Guidance & Control Observations Unfolding Circumstances Outside Information Unfolding Interaction With Environment Unfolding Interaction With Environment Orient Decision (Hypothesis) Feed Forward Feed Forward Feedback Feedback J. R. Boyd, “the Essence of Winning and Losing,” 1995. Cultural Traditions Genetic Heritage New Information Previous Experience Analyses & Synthesis
Observations on orientation for business Feed Forward  Observations Orientation Observation is  the only  feed into Orientation Cultural  Traditions Genetic  Heritage New  Information Previous Experiences  Analyses/ Synthesis  Feed  Forward Decision Implicit  Guidance & Control  Implicit  Guidance & Control  Action
Orientation locked tight The company (A&P), under pressure from Kroger, experimented with a new concept, “The Golden Key.”  “It sold no A&P branded products, it gave the store manager more freedom, it experimented with innovative new departments … Customers really liked it. “ What did A&P executives do with ‘The Golden Key’?  They didn’t like the answers it gave, so they closed it. ” Jim Collins,  Good to Great , 68.
Battle of Orientations: 1 ,[object Object],[object Object]
Battle of Orientations: 2 ,[object Object],Micheline Maynard, Toyota Shows Big Three How It's Done,  New York Times , January 13, 2006
Improving orientation ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],These are tubs for drinking your own bathwater Toyota calls this  hansei
Improving orientation (II) ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
What about “action”? ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
Observation Observations Feedback From Action Feedback From Decision Implicit Guidance & Control  (Orientation) (Orientation) Feed Forward Real World ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],What you’re looking for are “ mismatches ” between  a) what your orientation is telling you the world ought to be  and  b) what the world really is.
In one of the first games he attended, [New Sacramento Kings Owner] Gavin [Maloof] missed an entire quarter waiting in a beer line. Knowing his father would have gone nuclear, Gavin arranged to have 20 minibars installed throughout the arena. Nobody waits for a beer now. Hugo Lindgren, The Flying Maloof Brothers,  New York Times , February 15, 2004
Decision Feed Forward Feed Forward Decision (Hypothesis) (Orientation) (Action) Feed Back (Observation) Note:  Decision is fed  only  from Orientation Note:  Decisions, in this sense, are needed when action does not flow from orientation.  These types of decisions  always slow down the OODA “loop” They can be considered as part of the learning process.
What OODA “loop” speed really means Implicit Guidance & Control Know what to do Act And be able to do it Unfolding Interaction With Environment Action (Test) Feedback Decide Decision (Hypothesis ) Feed Forward Feed Forward Feedback While learning from the experience Observe Orient Feed Forward Observations Unfolding Circumstances Outside Information Unfolding Interaction With Environment Quickly understand what’s going on Implicit Guidance & Control
[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
According to Boyd, a fighter pilot didn’t  win by faster reflexes; he won because his reflexes  were connected to a brain that thought faster than the opponent. Bing West and MajGen Ray Smith, USMC, Ret. The March Up , p. 11
Question How can your corporate “brain” think faster? ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
The   Principles of the  Blitzkrieg ,[object Object],[object Object]
[object Object],[object Object],Blitzkrieg,  continued
Fingerspitzengefühl:  excellence at the level of tactics ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
Fingerspitzengefühl  as strategy ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
“ The Operating System is GE's learning culture in action. “ It is a year-round series of intense learning sessions where Business CEOs, role models and initiative champions from GE as well as outside companies, meet and share intellectual capital.”  http://www.ge.com/en/company/companyinfo/at_a_glance/operating_system.htm  - 2/25/2003
Einheit  hits the beach It is not more command and control that we are after. Instead, we seek  to decrease the amount of command  and  control  that  we  need .  We  do  this  by  replacing coercive command and control methods with spontaneous, self-disciplined cooperation based on  low-level initiative, a commonly understood commander’s intent, mutual  trust, and implicit understanding and communications. MCDP 6,  Command and Control , p. 6
Flowdown:  Schwerpunkt  for manufacturing The Toyota Production System, quite simply, is about shortening the time it takes to convert customer orders into vehicle deliveries. This tells everybody in Toyota manufacturing:  “When in doubt, take the action that has the biggest impact on order-to-delivery time”.
Augtragstaktik —missions and contracts instead of tasks ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
Augtragstaktik —what “commitment” means ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
Auftragstaktik—focused  initiative Abbott recruited entrepreneurial leaders and gave them the freedom to determine the best path to achieving their objectives. On the other hand, individuals had to commit fully to the Abbott system and were held rigorously accountable for their objectives. They had freedom, but freedom within a framework .  Jim Collins,  Good to Great , 123.
It’s really pretty simple I.  (Individual)  Fingerspitzengefühl III.  Schwerpunkt IV.  Auftrag II.  Einheit
The Payoff: Operating inside their OODA “loops” ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],It turns out that the real iPod killer is Apple itself.  Last week,  the company eliminated its top-selling model , the iPod mini, and topped itself with the iPod nano, an even smaller device  that becomes the new target dangled in front of the competition –  Seattle Times , 9/17/05
Brief History of the iPod 2002 2003 2004 2005 iPod 1 Gen 2 Gen 3 Gen 4 Gen 5 Gen Mini Nano Shuffle 2 Gen 1 Gen “ Penetrate”:  Learn the marketplace; build  Fingerspitzengefühl  &  Einheit Exploit!
Brief History of the iPod 40 30 20 10 50 Cum Sales – Millions of Units 2002 2003 2004 2005
OODA Loops in Action ,[object Object],[object Object]
You don’t wait for the future.  You create it. Hwang Chang Gyu, President, Samsung Semiconductor

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  • 1. Certain to Win Boyd’s OODA Loop as a business weapon Chet Richards J. Addams & Partners, Inc. March 2006 Or, any position other than first is a tie for last.
  • 2. Starting Point: Wars don’t always turn out as expected Israel Various Arab States Vietnam United States Afghanistan Soviet Union Chechnya Russia
  • 3. Business doesn’t either Lost billions in 2001, 2002, 2003, & 2004 American Airlines Gone Digital Equipment, Compaq, Montgomery Ward, Eastern Airlines, TWA, Pan Am, McDonnell-Douglas In Chapter 11 Delta, Northwest, United Airlines, US Airways Dropped to #52 on Fortune 500 Sears Market share fell from 52% to around 25% General Motors
  • 4. But it’s not inevitable IBM, Apple Computers Southwest, JetBlue, Singapore, Emirates, Ryanair, AirTran Airlines Wal-Mart, Target Retailing Toyota, Nissan Automobiles
  • 5.
  • 7. The military’s answer is something called “maneuver warfare” Gen Tommy Franks, Commander, USCENTCOM in Peter Boyer, “The New War Machine,” The New Yorker , June 30, 2003 And that is the business of decision cycles, or inside the decision loop , as people say … if, in fact, you can deceive him with respect to what you are going to do, to cause him further confusion and make him keep his force in place one day too long, then, in fact, you find yourself all the way to Baghdad.
  • 8. The primary advantage we want to achieve in all forms of maneuver is time .
  • 9.
  • 10.
  • 11. A time-compressed company does the same thing as a pilot in an OODA loop … It’s the competitor who acts on information faster who is in the best position to win. George Stalk, Jr. & Tom Hout, Competing Against Time , 180-181.
  • 12. Business is a dogfight. Your job as a leader: Outmaneuver the competition, respond decisively to fast-changing conditions, and defeat your rivals. That's why the OODA loop, the brainchild of "40 Second" Boyd, an unconventional fighter pilot, is one of today's most important ideas in battle or in business. Keith Hammonds, “The Strategy of the Fighter Pilot,” Fast Company , June 2002.
  • 13. This is the OODA loop Observe Act Orient Decide
  • 14. This is not the OODA loop Observe Act Orient Decide
  • 15. An OODA “loop” with power Feed Forward Observe Decide Act Action (Test) Implicit Guidance & Control Implicit Guidance & Control Observations Unfolding Circumstances Outside Information Unfolding Interaction With Environment Unfolding Interaction With Environment Orient Decision (Hypothesis) Feed Forward Feed Forward Feedback Feedback J. R. Boyd, “the Essence of Winning and Losing,” 1995. Cultural Traditions Genetic Heritage New Information Previous Experience Analyses & Synthesis
  • 16. Observations on orientation for business Feed Forward Observations Orientation Observation is the only feed into Orientation Cultural Traditions Genetic Heritage New Information Previous Experiences Analyses/ Synthesis Feed Forward Decision Implicit Guidance & Control Implicit Guidance & Control Action
  • 17. Orientation locked tight The company (A&P), under pressure from Kroger, experimented with a new concept, “The Golden Key.” “It sold no A&P branded products, it gave the store manager more freedom, it experimented with innovative new departments … Customers really liked it. “ What did A&P executives do with ‘The Golden Key’? They didn’t like the answers it gave, so they closed it. ” Jim Collins, Good to Great , 68.
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  • 24. In one of the first games he attended, [New Sacramento Kings Owner] Gavin [Maloof] missed an entire quarter waiting in a beer line. Knowing his father would have gone nuclear, Gavin arranged to have 20 minibars installed throughout the arena. Nobody waits for a beer now. Hugo Lindgren, The Flying Maloof Brothers, New York Times , February 15, 2004
  • 25. Decision Feed Forward Feed Forward Decision (Hypothesis) (Orientation) (Action) Feed Back (Observation) Note: Decision is fed only from Orientation Note: Decisions, in this sense, are needed when action does not flow from orientation. These types of decisions always slow down the OODA “loop” They can be considered as part of the learning process.
  • 26. What OODA “loop” speed really means Implicit Guidance & Control Know what to do Act And be able to do it Unfolding Interaction With Environment Action (Test) Feedback Decide Decision (Hypothesis ) Feed Forward Feed Forward Feedback While learning from the experience Observe Orient Feed Forward Observations Unfolding Circumstances Outside Information Unfolding Interaction With Environment Quickly understand what’s going on Implicit Guidance & Control
  • 27.
  • 28. According to Boyd, a fighter pilot didn’t win by faster reflexes; he won because his reflexes were connected to a brain that thought faster than the opponent. Bing West and MajGen Ray Smith, USMC, Ret. The March Up , p. 11
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  • 34. “ The Operating System is GE's learning culture in action. “ It is a year-round series of intense learning sessions where Business CEOs, role models and initiative champions from GE as well as outside companies, meet and share intellectual capital.” http://www.ge.com/en/company/companyinfo/at_a_glance/operating_system.htm - 2/25/2003
  • 35. Einheit hits the beach It is not more command and control that we are after. Instead, we seek to decrease the amount of command and control that we need . We do this by replacing coercive command and control methods with spontaneous, self-disciplined cooperation based on low-level initiative, a commonly understood commander’s intent, mutual trust, and implicit understanding and communications. MCDP 6, Command and Control , p. 6
  • 36. Flowdown: Schwerpunkt for manufacturing The Toyota Production System, quite simply, is about shortening the time it takes to convert customer orders into vehicle deliveries. This tells everybody in Toyota manufacturing: “When in doubt, take the action that has the biggest impact on order-to-delivery time”.
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  • 39. Auftragstaktik—focused initiative Abbott recruited entrepreneurial leaders and gave them the freedom to determine the best path to achieving their objectives. On the other hand, individuals had to commit fully to the Abbott system and were held rigorously accountable for their objectives. They had freedom, but freedom within a framework . Jim Collins, Good to Great , 123.
  • 40. It’s really pretty simple I. (Individual) Fingerspitzengefühl III. Schwerpunkt IV. Auftrag II. Einheit
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  • 42. Brief History of the iPod 2002 2003 2004 2005 iPod 1 Gen 2 Gen 3 Gen 4 Gen 5 Gen Mini Nano Shuffle 2 Gen 1 Gen “ Penetrate”: Learn the marketplace; build Fingerspitzengefühl & Einheit Exploit!
  • 43. Brief History of the iPod 40 30 20 10 50 Cum Sales – Millions of Units 2002 2003 2004 2005
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  • 45. You don’t wait for the future. You create it. Hwang Chang Gyu, President, Samsung Semiconductor

Notas del editor

  1. Welcome – be sure also to play this as a slide show. For an in-depth look at the topics in this briefing, please read the book version of Certain to Win : http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1413453767/qid=1092217465/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl14/102-3940878-6099359?v=glance&s=books&n=507846 http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?userid=7I0sblm9Bq&isbn=1413453767&itm=1 Thanks!! Chet Richards Author, Certain to Win Editor, Belisarius.com and Defense and the National Interest