Release Date:
3/11/2009 2:55 PM
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“Are Our National Security Agencies Well Managed?"
Friday, May 8, 2009 - 7:30am-9:00am
Weller Center, Mitchell College, New London
Coffee & Danish will be served at 7:30 am; Speaker will begin at 8:00 am
469 Pequot Avenue, New London, CT
COST: $8.00, includes continental breakfast
Effective management of our national security agencies is a primary responsibility of our government. We depend on these organizations to keep us safe from harm and secure from attack. Yet, they are not, for the most part, high-performance organizations. From the 9/11 surprise and the failure to find WMD’s in Iraq, to less obvious oversights, there is abundant evidence that the management of our national security agencies could be much improved. From inexplicable cost overruns and the inability to account for the cost of our wars, to repeatedly failed financial audits, the mismanagement of our national security agencies is a wasteful embarrassment at best and a threat to our national security. But, what can be done? Is our national security enterprise too big to succeed? ‘Good enough for government work’ is not good enough when our national security is at risk. · What can we learn from a review of the origins and evolution of our national security agencies? Are they poorly designed from the start?· Are the usual management weaknesses that so often underlie the failure of an organization to perform its mission present in these agencies? · Can high-performance private sector organizations offer a model?· What are the characteristics of a high-performance organization?· What unique challenges do national security agencies face in their quest to become more effective organizations? SPEAKER James Matschulat, Senior Lecturer, Henry C. Lee College, UNH
Please RSVP by May 6, 2009 to Monica Sutcliffe at SEcampus@newhaven.edu or (860) 701-5454