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Design and analysis of robust and adaptive organizations

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2001, 2001 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics. e-Systems and e-Man for Cybernetics in Cyberspace (Cat.No.01CH37236)

https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSMC.2001.972954
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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.

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