Concept development gives broad and sometimes ill-defined ideas a chance to be examined by groups of experts in a logical process.
They can be generated by staff processes, operational experience, formal analytical work, or published proposals.
There need be no boundaries on the types of ideas that enter the concept development process, although some simpler ones that modify techniques or procedures might be ‘fast-tracked’ into practice because they are intuitively sound.
Typically, promising ideas with a broader scope are explored and refined through workshops and larger seminars to the point where more mature concepts are formed.
Different kinds of experiments can be conducted: Once validated and accepted, concepts are incorporated into military organizations – for example, through doctrine and capability development processes.