U.S. Air Force Career Field Management :  At the Intersection of Futures Studies and Systems Thinking

Air Force practices of career field management have yet to adapt to the volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA) environment that it is increasingly encountering. This paper augments established Air Force management practices with tools and techniques pulled from futures studies. A case study and the agentbased approach was used to recommend the futures practice of horizon scanning and gaining more inclusion from voices throughout the career field.

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Journal

Title: Journal of Systems Thinking Preprints

Publisher: Cabrera Research Lab

Publication date (Electronic preprint): 2 November 2022

Affiliations

[1 ] U.S. Air Force Academy

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[* ]Email: Austin.wiggins@ 123456afacademy.af.edu .

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Austin Wiggins https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2793-6517

Article

DOI: 10.54120/jost.pr000016.v1

SO-VID: f583298a-08c5-4abd-bfad-b4c74e48dc49

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Date received : 2 November 2022

Data availability: Data sharing not applicable to this article as no datasets were generated or analysed during the current study.

ScienceOpen disciplines: General social science,General behavioral science

Keywords: DSRP Theory,Systems Thinking,Futures Studies,Organizational management

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[1] Beer Stafford. What is cybernetics? Kybernetes. Vol. 31(2):209–219. 2002. Emerald. [Cross Ref]

[2] McGrew Jean B.. Future Shock. Alvin Toffler. New York: Random House, 1970. 505 pp. $7.95. The bulletin of the National Association of Secondary School Principals. Vol. 54(349):123–129. 1970. SAGE Publications. [Cross Ref]

[3] Senge Peter M. THE FIFTH DISCIPLINE. Measuring Business Excellence. Vol. 1(3):46–51. 1997. Emerald. [Cross Ref]

[4] Beer Stafford. What is cybernetics? Kybernetes. Vol. 31(2):209–219. 2002. Emerald. [Cross Ref]