Posted on Jul 27, 2015
Do you remember the first time that you heard the term (MDMP)?
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How many leaders at both the staff and command team levels actually use the Military Decision Making Process? What are your experiences with MDMP? Does this process truly work?
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CW4 (Join to see) I have nightmares about it - I have used it so many times it's hard to count the times I've used it at the Company level, Battalion Level, Brigade Level, and even in my civilian occupations. I use to have fun bringing the military MDMP into the civilian world when I was the president of the company. At first everyone would just look at me like I was on "drugs" or something, but if you tweak it and change some of the terms it's great for solving complex issues in the civilian world as well. Some of you executives out there should try it and have fun with it. Only if you’re in charge though!
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Very interesting. Using this process in the civilian world. With the looks on Officers and NCO's faces when going through this process, I can only imagine what the faces on the civilians looked like. I think that it is great that you were able to transition this process into the civilian world. If use properly, MDMP is a very valuable tool.
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COL Vincent Stoneking
CW4 (Join to see) - Actually, when they find out you have an actual process, their eyes get really big... They are generally OK, as long as they don't know where it came from. Same thing with the DECMAT, it makes you a freaking genius.
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Some COA are screened out due to the impossibility. Some assumptions are thrown out. Some assumption become fact because they have to happen for the whole operation to succeed.
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I thought the MDMP was a bloated, wasteful process at first. As I spent more time in STAFFEXes and putting it into practice, I grew to appreciate the way that it forced you to think analytically and rigorously about the way you approached a mission. This mentality has proven especially helpful when doing case studies in business school.
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Thanks for responding. I'm glad that you have been able to transfer this process to assist you in business school.
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