JOINT ANALYSIS LESSONS LEARNED CENTRE NATO'S LEAD AGENT JOINT ANALYSIS

An Action Body is “the organization or staff tasked with the implementation of
assigned remedial action in association with a lesson identified. The action body
develops an action plan to guide the remedial action activities” (Reference C).
During the Implementation and Monitoring step, the Action Body will
prepare and implement their Remedial Action through the use of an
Action Plan and the LLSO will support leadership in monitoring its
implementation.
An Action Plan is “the written plan of action and milestones developed by an
action body to implement assigned remedial action for a lesson identified”
(Reference C).
After the Remedial Action has been implemented, some form of
validation is needed.
Validation: “When necessary, lesson learned validation ensures that the
originally observed issue has been successfully corrected by the implemented
remedial action. Validation requirements should be described in the action plan
and may include additional analysis to determine if the remedial action has
generated the desired effects (issue correction or best practice application) and,
therefore, has resulted in measurable improvement” 5 (Reference C).
Validation may involve further work and analysis, possibly using
exercises or experiments.
Following the completion of the Remedial Action and successful
validation, the LI will be deemed a Lesson Learned and the formal LL
process concludes. However, it is important that further dissemination
and publication of the information occurs.
A NATO Lesson Learned is “An improved capability or increased performance
confirmed by validation when necessary resulting from the implementation of
one or more remedial actions for a lesson identified.” (Reference C).
The last three steps of the LL process are described in Chapter 5.
Although Figure 2 shows dissemination as being the final stage of the LL
process, Sharing is an activity that needs to occur throughout the LL
process. More about LL information sharing is in Chapter 6.
Notes
NATO ACTORS IN THE LESSON LEARNED PROCESS
Commanders
Commanders, especially at strategic and operational level, have a vital
role to play in ensuring that lessons are learned in support of both
transformation of the Alliance and in the improvement of operations. This
role includes establishing the LL mindset across their commands; setting
expectations for subordinates in the gathering and analysis of
observations; tasking remedial action bodies; and following up on that
tasking to ensure lessons have been learned by those under their
command who need to learn them.
5 Note that within the NATO LL process, the term validation is applied to the
confirmation that a remedial action is successful at fixing the observed problem.
Other LL processes may use the term differently; some use the term to describe
the process of determining whether an observation is suitable for inclusion in
the LL process.
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