فصلنامه مدیریت نظامی
پیاپی 79 (پاییز 1399)

By considering the complexity of the environment and drastic changes in existing organizations and structures, as well as the existence of dynamic and non-linear styles affecting this issue, identifying and prioritizing strategic thinking factors can help in planning for training commanders and managers of military universities. This study aims to identify the factors that affect strategic thinking of them in three areas: environmental, organizational and individual. In this mix method study, in the qualitative part, by conducting an interview, the concepts are extracted and its analysis is done by content analysis method. In the quantitative part, in order to prioritize the factors, a questionnaire was used and analyzed by Dematel technique. As a result, thirteen key factors include: personality traits, intuitive traits, science, attending in gathering of strategic people, organizational intelligence, environmental and organizational constraints, insight, problem-solving skills, balance in heterogeneity and homogeneity of group, intelligent opportunism, turbulent environment, field mission and legal factors were identified as factors influencing strategic thinking. Three most effective factors in terms of causal relationships are: personality traits, intuitive characteristics and attending in gathering of strategic people, respectively.

The dramatic growth of science and technology in recent decades has led to changes in various fields. Military industries and forces have not been unaffected by this growth, and today we are witnessing a huge change in military technologies. The armies that are not able to move in sync with the growth of science and technology, they will have to endure the defeat of armies equipped with up-to-date technology. In Iran, the need to identify and apply the scientific and technological effective factors and components on the country's defense power will become more apparent, by considering the numerous threats and the importance of defense power in reducing the leading threats. So, in this study, in order to explain the key scientific and technological factors affecting Iran's defense power on the horizon of 1410, 93 factors were identified by studying the previous scientific documents and records and using the opinions of 50 experts. In the second step, through an expert panel, similar factors were integrated with each other and 38 factors were identified. Then, identified factors were ranked and their values were determined based on the opinion of experts, and 25 important and effective factors were defined. Finally, 11 and 5 factors as key scientific and technological factors affecting Iran's defense power were identified via Micmac futures research software and application of cross matrix analysis method.

Agile innovation for defense industrial organizations means a set of processes, tools and methods to improve the ability to respond quickly to changing market and customer needs, actual and potential threats combined with cost control and improving the quality of products and services. An agile innovation industrial system with its extraordinary capabilities is (internal capabilities such as hardware and software technologies, human resource and skilled management) to achieve rapid and immediate market changes (including speed, flexibility, customers and responsiveness) and actual and potential threats. So, this study aims to develop a strategic model of agile innovation of defense industrial organizations. Data were collected through a review of library information and interviews with 20 experts. After open, pivotal and selective coding in thirty-seven categories, the study of strategic model of agile innovation was developed and the theory of agile innovation of defense industrial organizations was expressed in ten cases. Also, in order to evaluate the validity and reliability of the proposed model, a researcher-made questionnaire was developed and a statistical sample of 110 people answered the questions. Due to the non-normality of the data, Smart-Plus software was used to analyze the data. It is concluded that the consequence of agile innovation of defense industrial organizations can be expressed as the stability of new innovation in a changing environment, the establishment of an intelligent defense industrial system and gaining the advantage of the defense sector.

In today's world, development is next to the insecurity. In order to achieve security and meet the developmental needs of the society in future, the conscious and effective presence of the armed forces in various fields, especially in the field of defense, is essential. Therefore, establishing the armed forces organization based on the teachings of Imam Ali behavior in managing the affairs is very important. Imam Ali, who is considered to be the greatest commentator on the Qur'an and religious teachings after the Holy Prophet, has valuable statements in Nahj al-Balagha, focusing on the original teachings of the Qur'an and Sunnah, in explaining the components of defense readiness of command and military management with emphasis on human capital. Therefore, this research has identified and analyzed these components by the qualitative content analysis method in order to recognize the true place of them in Nahj al-Balagha. Thus, by meticulous studying of Nahj al-Balagha, 147 conceptual codes were discovered and by combining related concepts, finally 16 components were formed. Then, these components were calculated in terms of frequency and percentage of relative and cumulative frequency of their constituent concepts. Finally, in human capital components, "piety" and "criticism" with frequency of 10.9 and 2.1 percent has the highest and lowest frequency in compare to other components in the words of Imam Ali, respectively.

This study aims to investigate the effect of the dimensions of organizational agility components as a strategy to overcome organizational inertia with the mediating variable of social laziness of employees at Imam Khomeini University of Marine Sciences. In this applied study, method of collecting the data is descriptive-survey. To collect the data, a reliable and valid questionnaire were conducted through 191 people selected from among 385 university staff based on random sampling and Morgan table. The questionnaire tool was confirmed by calculating Cronbach's alpha and combined reliability by professors and experts familiar with the subject. Data analyzed by SPSS and PLS software. Structural equation modeling findings showed that all paths from organizational agility and social laziness to organizational inertia and also from organizational agility through the mediating variable of social laziness on organizational inertia are significant and the relationships between them are confirmed. It is concluded that investment in organizational agility capabilities along with reducing social laziness leads to reducing organizational inertia.

Software vulnerabilities have always been an important issue in the field of cyber security of military organizations. Having software without vulnerabilities is not possible in practice and therefore vulnerabilities need to be managed to increase the level of security. This study aims to investigate and identify the cyber vulnerabilities of military organizations in the field of software and provide a model for assessing these vulnerabilities. In this applied research the method is descriptive (case-field) and quantitative and qualitative methods have been used in analyzing the collected data. The statistical population of the research included cyber experts of Air Force headquarters. Using library resources and reviewing documents, the researcher has identified the different types of cyber vulnerabilities of software and then, by conducting interviews with experts, has identified the dimensions and components of the vulnerability assessment model. The research findings indicate that the cyber vulnerability assessment model of military organizations in the field of software has four dimensions: software production process, methods, organizational structure and training along with thirteen components. Software development process is the most important and the training process is the least important in covering vulnerabilities among the aforementioned dimensions. Strengthening cyber structures, upgrading the level of training of managers and employees, supporting, maintenance and technical upgrading of application software are among the proposed solutions to reduce cyber vulnerabilities in military organizations.