SplusIgroup Warriors-OODA Tutorial Final

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Learning Tutorial : O O D A* Loops

Author: Richard Platt

Principal OwnerThe Strategy + Innovation Group LLC

Observe Orient Decide ActThe Agility Framework: of Martial Artists,B litzkrieg Generals and CompetitiveCompanies

* OODA was originally developed bythe late Colonel John Boyd, alongwith Chet Richards to both of whom

I am greatly appreciative. - RP


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All Rights Reserved -- Strategy + Innovation Group LLC2

Disclaimers and MPAA Rating This tutorial & exercise is intended ONLY for mature

audiences & adults over the age of 18.

The exercise contained in this tutorial is rated R by theMPAA and contains graphic images of violence and the use

of vulgar and coarse language.

No one under the age of 17 should attend or do thisexercise without the supervision and presence of a parent

/ guardian. This exercise is NOT intended for those business persons

who have sensitivities in the areas mentioned above.

All trademarks and copyrights used within this tutorial arethe property of their respective owners. No infringementis intended as this is simply a training exercise to teach thebasics of OODA


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Tutorial InstructionWhat Are You Trying to Learn in this Exercise?

To Compete Effectively in Any Situat ion:One must be able to "Improvise, Modify, Adapt, and

Overcome their adversary, OODA is a Best

Practice to achieve that end.

The Goal of OODA is: To generate non-cooperative centersof gravity, disorient, disrupt, or overload your adversaryand his allies, to bring about the collapse of youropponent / fellow competitor.

Desired Tutorial Outcome: Identify the different phases ofOODA and the feedback loops and any other interesting

aspects to the engagements. From this you will gain abasic understanding of OODA.

If you want to learn more about OODA applications in business and technology environments, please contactthe author Richard Platt @ (503) 929.0239

or via email @ [email protected]


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The OODA Loop Sketch

Note how orientation shapes observation, shapes decision, shapes action, and in turn is shapedby the feedback and other phenomena coming into our sensing or observing window.

Also note how the entire loop (not just orientation) is an ongoing many-sided implicit cross-referencing process of projection, empathy, correlation, and rejection.

Note how orientation shapes observation, shapes decision, shapes action, and in turn is shapedby the feedback and other phenomena coming into our sensing or observing window.

Also note how the entire loop (not just orientation) is an ongoing many-sided implicit cross-referencing process of projection, empathy, correlation, and rejection.

FeedForward

Observations Decision(Hypothesis)

Action(Test)

CulturalTraditions

GeneticHeritage

NewInformation Previous

Experience

Analyses &Synthesis

FeedForward

FeedForward

ImplicitGuidance& Control

ImplicitGuidance& Control

Unfolding

InteractionWith

EnvironmentUnfoldingInteraction

WithEnvironment Feedback

Feedback

Outside

Information

UnfoldingCircumstances

Observe Orient Decide Act

Competitive advantage comes from quickness over the entire loop, not just or evenprimarily from the O-to-O-to-D-to-A sequence.


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Modern Retelling of A Greek Legend

401 BC Somewhere in Asia Minor a small band of Greek soldiers, cut offfrom their army, 1000 miles from home, 1000 miles from the sea andsurrounded on all sides by enemies bent on their annihilation. This battleto get back home is known as the Battle of Cunaxa, this is their story

and the story of their courage. Retold in the 1978 movie The Warriors


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The Warriors / OODA Tutorial Steps

1) Buy/ Rent the movie,The Warriors The Ultimate

Directors Cut

2) 1st watch the movie on your own, or with others whoappreciate a good movie that is beyond the obvious

violence that so many movies have that has no meaningother than the expression of violence.

3) Print out the OODA Template slide for reference forthe next stage of the tutorial.

4) Get 2 pages of 8.5 x 11paper to take notes on. Youwill need to identify the OODA phases during the followingscenes. #6 - Orphans & #8 - Baseball Furies Attempt to place yourself empathetically inside the antagonist and

protagonist characters heads as they negotiate each engagement

Look for the orthodox and unorthodox aspects to what is going on

If you want you can do morescenes in the film, Above All,

Have Fun Doing This.Enjoy!


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Who We Are:

The Strategy + Innovation Group LLCSole Proprietorship:A confederation of Innovation andStrategy Specialists, with special expertise inSemiconductor and Electronics assemblies, systems,processes, technology and physical architecture

Established: September 2006 Present

A Corporate Privateering company specializing in InnovationManagement and Strategy

Strategy + Innovation Group, LLC (S+I G) works withpartner organizations in business and government toestablish, execute, and sustain programs involvinginnovation, intellectual property, rapid proto-typing,process improvement, and organizational change.

S+IG leads identification and selection of innovationopportunities within and without the client organizationto drive both short and long term business andinnovation objectives resulting in materialization of real

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