Shifts of Critical Personnel in Network Centric Organizations

Abstract

Identifying critical personnel has been a problem of interest for sometime as organizations seek to optimize their advantage and disrupt their adversary. This problem has become more difficult with the increasing use of network centric organizations as these organizations have flexible structures that can produce significant shifts of critical personnel. A shift of critical personnel is a change of who is critical within an organization over time. Traditional social network analysis has identified critical personnel using measures applied to static structure. This research adds the process of network change to better understand when shifts of critical personnel may occur. Theory and application are discussed.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 2010
Accession Number
ADA553655

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  • Craig Schreiber
  • Jeffrey T. Hansberger
  • Kathleen Carley

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Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Engineered Resilient Systems
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Availability
  • Climate Change
  • Communication Networks
  • Computer Science
  • Experimental Design
  • Flexible Structures
  • Information Processing
  • Joint Military Activities
  • Military Organizations
  • Network Science
  • Organizational Structure
  • Psychology
  • Regression Analysis
  • Simulations
  • Social Networks
  • Sociology

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