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and knowledge updating on the basis of new experience is relatively long in military
organisations. In order to improve this situation, one of the possibilities is to
enable each phase of LL process to be reached as soon as possible. Additionally,
new information resulting from each phase should be available for (but not necessarily
distributed directly among) the widest possible range of all those concerned.
The diagram below presents the implementation of the LL process which considers
fast circulation of the information.
Figure 1. The Lessons Learnt process in military organization
The level of experience in the military organization increases within every
iteration of the process. The level of experience could be estimated e.g. by the amount
of observations identified and described. In the LL process the availability of information
gives the opportunity to share the gained experience straightaway, even at
the time of gathering the information. Thanks to this quick access, even to the information
that has not passed the analysis step, the LL process especially supports
the implementation of daily missions connected with asymmetric threats, where
every piece of information can influence the success of the mission. Moreover
mission planning and execution in an asymmetric threats environment is much
more difficult because of unexpected actions of the opponents. In such a situation
the most required ability is to learn the organization by itself to avoid making further
mistakes and draw conclusions from the short-term history of the opponents actions.
The most important thing, therefore, is the implementation of the LL process
in military structures according to the presented model.
III. Recommending – the output of the process
Recommendations are one of the key products of the LL process. Recommend
(in addition to collecting information about the observations and their analysis)