The Systemic Modeling via Military Practice at the Service of any Operational Planning

The presented article demonstrates the value of systemic modeling in operational planning. The systemic modeling facilitates the description, depiction and computerized simulation of complex systems, with their interacting components and the relations between them. This ability is a crucial asset in strategic or operational planning and management of any kind. The article includes a brief presentation of popular systemic modeling tools, as they are applied in information systems and organizational management, along with a recently developed one: the Organizational Method for Analyzing Systems. The latter modeling tool consists of a series of notational facilities, along with the proposed methodology for using these provided facilities. It is briefly used to exemplify two typical applications, which describe the structure and activities of an organization and those of a project. These descriptions have been designed according to the relevant ones of the standard military practice, aiming at noting the significance of the robust but overlooked military practice in civilian, commercial or governmental administrative applications.