Considering the significance of the Net Assessment in defining our national military strategic blueprint and operational processes, the objective of this research is to find out how to utilize Net Assessment to effectively develop the national defense strategy and to sufficiently elevate the integrated military capability for the demands in future wars. The United States initiated the Net Assessment development in the 1970¡¦s. Net Assessment is the comparative analysis of military, technological, political, economic, and other factors governing the relative military capability of the nations. Net Assessment is used by the US Department of Defense primarily as a long term planning tool based on analysis in the competitiveness of its rival countries, and in the balance of military might. The Net Assessment provides top executives a strategic plan that corresponds to the internationally scoped situations. By taking the advantages in the resources and capabilities of the nation, this creates opportunities to fend off the emerging or future threats while improving over the deficiencies, and thus forms the strategic directions for the subsystems such as politics, economics, psychology, military, sciences and technologies. In the course of military strategic planning, the Net Assessment can be considered as the SWOT analysis technique used in the industry, that it is an essential topic for the strategic analysis for national security. We studied the Net Assessment primarily in the scope of the national defense strategic planning. We explored the implications of the Net Assessment and its roles in the United States strategic planning through literature researches. By examining the Net Assessment in the aspects of the strategic management theories and the establishment of its processes, this revealed the relationship between the Net Assessment and the national defense strategic planning and its applications. Through the analytical studies and consolidation, one could effectively handle the analysis procedures and operations for the Net Assessment. This will fully assist the executives to understand objectively the prospect in a comprehensive and long-term view and the critical elements in the problems. While fully utilizing the functions of organizational mechanisms and operations, one could create advantageous corroborative conditions and develop defense strategies that are accurate from global vantage point such that the national security can be ultimately assured in this steadily competitive and highly variable environment.

Nowadays, the trend towards globalization and internationalization of business has strong impact on companies’ strategy. When a company is thinking about strategy development, it needs to pay attention to variable aspects on micro- and macro-level. This study includes the overview of the factors which need to be considered while developing a strategy. Moreover, a significant emphasize is made on the contemporary deriving challenges at the market. The purpose of the study is to investigate a new approach to the strategic planning, named “Early warning system”. For that purpose, it was conducted qualitative research at the example of the Ukrainian telecommunication company – MTS Ukraine. I identified factors which influence the company and analyzed how company copes with deriving challenges. Moreover, it was found out the company’s strategic planning process is significantly influenced by specific market characteristics such as high level of bureaucracy, specific behavior of some competitors, growing market.

Thesis (Ed. D.)--West Virginia University, 2002. / Title from document title page. Document formatted into pages; contains v, 158 p. : ill. Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (p. 154-158).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2004. / Title from first page of PDF file. Document formatted into pages; contains x, 120 p. Includes abstract and vita. Advisor: Jay B. Barney, Business Administration Graduate Program. Includes bibliographical references (p. 110-120).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2003. / Typescript. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 191-202). Also available on the Internet.

Thesis (Ed. D.)--West Virginia University, 2004. / Title from document title page. Document formatted into pages; contains iv, 320 p. : ill. Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-297).

Thesis (D. Min.)--Western Seminary, Portland, OR, 2001. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 179-181).

Thesis--School of Advanced Airpower Studies, Maxwell Air Force Base, Ala., 1997-98. / Title from title screen (viewed Oct. 10, 2003). "August 1999." Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M. Sc.)--University of Hong Kong, 2001. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 104-111).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Oxford Graduate School, 2001. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves [128]-137).