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

Notes
Recommendation
The recommendation should outline the suggested Remedial Action by
providing explicit advice on what must be done to repeat the success or
to avoid and/or solve the problem. Identify exactly what needs to be
changed—new or modified publications, procedures, procurement of
new equipment, change of the force structure, revision of command
relationships, improved training, etc.—and how this should be done. The
recommendation should also propose a suitable Action Body. The
recommendation should follow logically from the conclusion so that if
someone were to follow the recommendation, they would reap the
benefit of the learning for themselves and their organization.
WATCH OUT! Common mistakes include rephrasing or repeating the
observation or conclusion or any other paragraph. Also ensure that the
recommendation follows directly from the conclusion.
USING THE LESSON TEMPLATE
You may have noticed that the template described above, when
completely filled in, contains all information required for an LI.
When capturing observations, all the five fields of the ODCR template
need not be used. Only the observation field is mandatory. However,
observation submitters should be actively encouraged to enter additional
Tip
If writing down an LI, i.e. you
already have a Remedial Action,
try ‘reverse engineering’ the use of
the ODCR template by writing
down first the observation; second
the recommendation; third the
conclusion to support the
recommendation; and fourth the
discussion needed to go logically
from the observation to the
conclusion and recommendation.
and discussed in Annex C of this handbook.
information and supporting
evidence in the discussion field.
This may increase the efficiency of
a LL process as the LLSO may not
have to go back to the submitter for
more detail to generate the LI.
As an observation moves through a
LL process, additional information is
added to the ODCR template fields
so that, when complete, an LI is the
result. Some examples of LIs in the
ODCR template format are provided
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