Comparing the Organizational Cultures of the Department of Defense and Silicon Valley : RAND Corporation , June 10 , 2022
Comparing the Organizational Cultures of the Department of Defense and Silicon Valley : RAND Corporation , June 10 , 2022
From the report: "Artificial intelligence (AI) has become widely recognized as a technology that is essential to the future of national security. However, unlike previous eras, the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) is no longer the primary driver of research and development investment in these types of advanced technologies. Instead, large software companies that derive the bulk of their revenues from nondefense sources employ the greatest reservoirs of AI talent and invest the majority of capital into improving their AI algorithms. Consequently, DoD has sought to collaborate more effectively with the software companies of Silicon Valley.
However, differences in organizational cultures and mindsets may leave DoD unable to leverage the full range of capabilities developed by the private sector. To understand these differences, the authors of this report explored the values and traits that each community has sought to instill into its members. We did this by investigating how influential individuals in each community talk about the culture that they try to instill in their organizations and by categorizing documents that establish organizational culture, such as Netflix’s culture deck, Amazon’s leadership principles, and manuals and creeds from the military services. We mapped how the language used in these documents correlated with concepts and ideas from five prominent, relevant, and highly researched organizational culture types: Hierarchy, Adhocracy, Market, Clan, and Sense of Duty."
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