Net-Centric Computing and Information Systems Case Study

As each of the principles is predicated on each person involved in the implementation taking a personal role in their success, transformational leadership is crucial for its success. As the transformational leader has the ability to get people to move beyond their own boundaries of the status quo and move forward despite fear, for the 10 principles as defined by Robertson to be successful, there will need to be a continual focus on transformational leadership and a continual reinforcing of the value of the change as well. All of these factors will need to be unified in a very thorough communications plan that gets beyond the generalities to the specific very quickly. Only by having a strong project director with these skills with any project succeed and attain the 10 principles as defined (Vital, Bernier, 2006).

Another dimension of implementing these factors throughout a network is the long-term motivation of the employees themselves. There needs to be a focus within the managing and leading of these teams who will be using the network on how to give them a strong sense of autonomy, complete mastery of their learning, and clear sense of purpose. These three factors of autonomy, mastery and purpose are critically important for managing long-term motivation within teams (Vital, Bernier, 2006).If the project management team concentrates on these factors, they will be orders of magnitude more successful. If they choose to ignore them, the implementation of both the network and the principals would fail. People need to find the motivation internally to succeed.

Conclusion

The 10 principles are ideally used as part of a broader change management strategy that takes into account the critical roles of transformational leaders in their fulfillment There will also need to be a strong level of transformational leadership in place, ensuring the critical aspects of change management are continually monitored and acted on (Nasir, 2005). All of these factors must be taken into account for any network project to attain the 10 principles as defined by Robertson (Robertson, 2005).

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