Design and Analysis of Robust and Adaptive Organizations

Abstract

The objectives of this paper are to: (i) define and classify the process of strategy and structural adaptation of organizations to mission and environmental changes; (ii) apply our modified design methodology to construct robust and adaptive organizations; and (iii) analyze the effects of changes in mission and organizational parameters on the organization's performance. We analyze the performance of organizations using dynamic metrics, including a measure of congruence of a given organization with respect to an organization optimally matched to a mission, as well as the DM activity and task workload as a function of time. Our previously developed mission modeling and three-phase organizational design methodology allowed one to overcome the computational complexity and to synthesize an organization via an iterative solution of a sequence of smaller and well-defined optimization problems G. Levchuk et al., 2000a&b. This paper extends this methodology to design robust and adaptive organizations.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2001
Accession Number
ADA440118

Entities

People

  • Candra Meirina
  • David L. Kk
  • Georgiy M. Levchuk
  • Krishna R. Pattipati
  • Yuri N. Levchuk

Organizations

  • University of Connecticut

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Algorithms
  • Climate Change
  • Command And Control
  • Computational Complexity
  • Computer Science
  • Engineering
  • Information Exchange
  • Information Processing
  • Information Science
  • Information Transfer
  • Management Personnel
  • Manufacturing
  • Measurement
  • New York
  • Optimization
  • Organizational Structure
  • Workload

Readers

  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Organizational Process Management (OPM).
  • Team-Based Human-Centered Cognitive Task Decision Making and Information Performance.