Rapid Response to Decision Making for Complex Issues - How Technologies of Cooperation Can Help

Abstract

The nature of decision making reveals many distinguishing features of organizations, from biological organisms to corporate enterprises. Embodied in the process of decision making are assumptions about relationships, value, communication, and resources, as well as infrastructure to implement these assumptions. Most importantly, decision-making processes reflect how organizations reconcile control and creative freedom - a tension that produces innovation and evolution. A new capacity for rapid, ad hoc, and distributed decision making is emerging from the intersection of technologies of cooperation and new knowledge about the nature of cooperation and cooperative strategies. This report investigates the challenges, strategies, technologies, and best practices that will shape this new capacity.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 01, 2005
Accession Number
ADA441169

Entities

People

  • Andrea Saveri
  • Howard Rheingold
  • Kathi Vian

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force Research Laboratories
  • Best Practices
  • Boundaries
  • Cognition
  • Cooperation
  • Delphi Method
  • Information Exchange
  • Infrastructure
  • Knowledge Management
  • Language
  • Mesh Networks
  • Motivation
  • Organizational Structure
  • Psychology
  • Social Media
  • Social Networks
  • Thinking

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  • Defense Technology Research and Development.
  • Economics
  • Theoretical Analysis.