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The military has been using the term force multiplication since the beginning of organized military doctrine hundreds of years ago. The concept is relatively straightforward: Apply additional assets to your common core operating capability (people), and it accelerates and expands their effectiveness. For example, give an army the asset of intelligence, and its operating impact will be greater than it was before it had that information. Give ground forces the capability of GPS location, and they will be faster and more accurate than they were with the same amount of core resources prior to that technology.

As a practitioner in digital infrastructure leadership, you can enable your organization to strategically focus on the need for speed through the same use of force multiplication. By aligning to the elements of speed that most affect your mission scope, you can add levers that will multiply the abilities of your resources. Perhaps it's intelligence, automation, or new technology. In some cases, it may be the use of a third party or the ability to have access to data. Whatever it is, you have an opportunity to manipulate and accelerate your current capabilities to meet the need for speed through the simple application of resource elements, resource combinations, and resource alignment.