Strategy, planning and the best possible use of scare resources are classical priorities on the military sector. Additionally, the principles of modern business management are gaining more and more importance and can certainly be applied to defence administration as well as to operational and troop management - taking into account their unique specifications. In this context, future oriented thinking, adaptability, flexibility, improvability, and the best possible coordination and performance are standing in the foreground. The instruments of performance and effect oriented governance can - if applied correctly and professionally - contribute substantially and in the best way to find solutions for the manifold problems of military management.

Prof. Dr. Herbert Strunz: born in 1961; graduate of Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration; 10 years of experience on the industrial and banking sector; since 1993 Professor at the Faculty of Economic Sciences of the University of Applied Sciences Zwickau, Germany; since 2006 also Professor at the Faculty of Social and Economic Relations of the University of Trencin, Slovakia; Member of the Scientific Commission of the Austrian Federal Ministry of Defence.