Organizations and Information Processing: A Field Study of Research and Development Units within the United States Air Force Systems Command.

Abstract

This study conceptualizes the Research and Development (R&D) organizational unit as an information processing system which, to be most effective, must respond to the changing information requirements encountered in proceeding from a research orientation (information generation and expansion) to a product or system development emphasis (information application). To contend with and reduce the level of uncertainty, a unit must process information from various sources for its problem solving or decision making activities. This approach suggests that those units matching their information processing capabilities to the information processing requirements should be effective. The intent of this research is to investigate the information processing model of organizational design within an R&D setting. Specifically, the research will examine if perceived information requirements differ between research units and development units.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 1984
Accession Number
ADA147381

Entities

People

  • T. Triscari Jr

Organizations

  • Air Force Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Computers
  • Data Science
  • Databases
  • Engineers
  • Factor Analysis
  • Information Processing
  • Information Science
  • Information Systems
  • Knowledge Management
  • Organizational Structure
  • Regression Analysis
  • Social Sciences
  • Statistical Analysis
  • Surveys
  • Systems Engineering
  • United States

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  • Computer Science/Computer Engineering/Data Science/Digital Signal Processing.
  • Systems Analysis and Design
  • Technical Research and Report Writing.