Plan And Execute With Military Precision Using The Military Appraisal Process

In our professional life, there are certain core skills sets to master, harness and leverage. For me, I focus on these three: 1. process technical knowledge, 2. people inter-relational skills and 3. conceptual planning skills.

Here I would like to elaborate on the conceptual planning skills. It is the ability to see the 'big picture' and plan and align the organisation or the department's function to meet the purpose or mission function.

When it comes to planning, the term 'military precision' kind of set the benchmark. According to Google and from Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, military precision is "you do something in a very organized and exact way". Students of planning aspire to continuously improve to achieve 'military precision'.

Keeping an eye out for ways of continuously improving on the three core skills sets, I got interested in the Military Appraisal Process (MAP) as I read General Singirok's book. It is an intriguing process, I would say very similar to what we civilians would say as 'PESTEL Analysis'.

The practical MAP example given in General Singirok's book is very qualitative but the structure to stepping it out especially for executive management or Board Of Directors appraisals can be adopted in civic applications with quantitative KRAs and driver KPIs.