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According to the book description of Enterprise Sustainability: Enhancing
the Military’s Ability to Perform its Mission, “Military supply chains are unique because what is
supplied to the end user is routinely returned to the supply chain for maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO). Offering a
blueprint for transforming military depot workload and processes into those of high-performance commercial facilities, Enterprise
Sustainability: Enhancing the Military’s Ability to Perform Its Mission provides a powerful system of concepts and tools
for enhancing the ability of the military to perform MRO on its weapon systems. These concepts and tools are applicable to
any enterprise, military or commercial, that is concerned about sustainability.
The text focuses on five abilities that must be considered to
achieve efficient, cost-saving operations: Availability of required parts, facilities, tools, and manpower; Dependability
of the weapon systems; Capability of the enterprise to perform the mission; Affordability and improving the life cycle cost
(LCC) of a system or project; Marketability of concepts and motivating decision makers; Aging weapons systems, an aging workforce,
limited financial resources, new technologies, and, an increased military operational tempo demand that the military develop
an aggressive transformation plan for its sustainability.
This book follows An Architecture for
a Lean Transformation, the first in a series dedicated to sustaining an enterprise. In this second volume, the authors continue
to provide an analysis of, and prescription for, the strategies, principles, and technologies that are necessary to sustain
an enterprise like the military and the weapons system it develops and utilizes.”
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The additional co-authors
of Enterprise Sustainability: Enhancing the Military’s Ability to Perform its Mission are:
Dennis F.X. Mathaisel “holds the Doctor of Philosophy
degree from MIT. He was a Research Scientist in the Department of Aeronautics & Astronautics at MIT for over 20 years,
where most recently he was a lead researcher for the MIT Lean Sustainment Initiative and consultant for the U.S Air Force.
He was founder and President of a computer software firm that developed systems for airline scheduling and resource allocation,
and he was a Branch Manager for Operations Research at the McDonnell Douglas Corporation. Currently, he is Professor of Management
Science at Babson College, where his teaching interests are in the fields of management science and quantitative methods,
and his research is focused on the sustainment of complex aging systems and lean manufacturing. His publications appear in
numerous academic and professional journals, and he is a Full Member of the Institute for Operations Research and Management
Science (INFORMS), the Decision Sciences Institute (DSI), and the Airline Group of the International Federation of Operational
Research Societies (AGIFORS). He was President of the Air Transportation Research International Forum (ATRIF).
Dennis is a private pilot and an owner of a Cessna 182 aircraft.”
Clare L. Comm
is “professor of marketing in the College of Management at the University of Massachusetts – Lowell, where she
specializes in services marketing and buyer behavior. She has also taught at Babson College, Radcliffe Seminars Program, and
the University of Indonesia for MIT’s Flight Transportation Laboratory. She is a member of the editorial board of the
International Journal of Business Excellence. She also is an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation affiliate. She holds a Ph.D. in marketing
from the University of Cincinnati.”
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