Scenarios about Austrian security policy

The administration for security policy is the security- and defense political advisory body for the Austrian federal minister for national defense and sports, the chief of general military staff and other departments of the ministry. The administration for security policy accompanies the issues of the National Security Council as well as the contribution of the federal ministry for national defense and sports concerning the general governmental safety precautions.  The head of the department for security policy, the director of defense, functions as a consulter for the Federal Ministry for immediate right of recitation and nomination in terms of questions of defense, is an advisory member in National Security Council and a member in the council for questions concerning the Austrian integration politics and foreign affairs.

In summer 2011, the administration for security policy received the order to demonstrate all different defense political handling actions of the military, under consideration of all relevant department offices. It quickly became evident, that significant insecurities concerning the external developments as well as concerning its own handling actions prevail. Therefore the Scenario-ManagementTM was used to provide an approach to strategic advancement, which includes such insecurities. Three different project stages were passed:

Development of profile variants (stage 1)

Development of external scenarios (stage 2)

Evaluation of profile variants (stage 3)

After the process of the development and evaluation of the defense political profile variants was successfully passed, a discussion about the implementation of a continuous strategic management process follows.  Therefore we used a model. A further project description can be found here.