| ID | 153366 |
| Title Proper | Measuring military cyber power |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Inkster, Nigel |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | Anyone who has been on a management training course will have been confronted with the proposition that ‘if you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it’. This statement, or some variant thereof, has variously and erroneously been attributed to different management gurus: specifically, W. Edwards Deming, who actually said the exact opposite, namely ‘It is wrong to suppose that if you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it – a costly myth’;1 and Peter Drucker, who doesn’t actually seem to have said it at all. Neither of these pioneering thinkers would be impressed with the mechanistic way in which incompetent managers – and there are many – attempt to enumerate things in ways that are misleading and counterproductive. Such managers, at best, reduce management to a meaningless box-ticking exercise and, at worst, set themselves up for unpleasant surprises when they discover that what purports to be solid, fact-based analysis turns out to be highly misleading: as Mark Twain put it, ‘what you know for sure but just ain’t so’. |
| `In' analytical Note | Survival : the IISS Quarterly Vol. 59, No.4; Aug-Sep 2017: p.27-34 |
| Journal Source | Survival Vol: 59 No 4 |
| Key Words | NATO ; Military Technology ; Military Strategy ; Defence Technology ; United States ; Cyber Security |