Modeling organizational configuration and decision processes for information warfare analysis
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Authors
Black, Bruce J.
Subjects
Organizational configuration
Organizational decision processes
Organizational consultant
Virtual design team
Organizational decision processes
Organizational consultant
Virtual design team
Advisors
Jones, Carl R.
Roberts, Nancy
Date of Issue
2005-09
Date
March 1997
Publisher
Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School
Language
en_US
Abstract
For an organization to survive it must be able to adapt to its environment. A military organization operates in an environment that is constantly changing. The ability to model organizational configurations and organizational decision processes can assist the commander in adapting to the environment and understanding how a military organization is susceptible to Information Warfare (1W) attacks. First a commander must understand the concepts of Information Warfare, Command and Control and the concept of organizational decision processes and how these permit an organization to adapt to its environment. Then the commander must determine what level of detail is necessary to model the organizational decision processes for its environment. Next the commander must analyze his model for configuration and decision processes. Using such commercially available software as Organizational Consultant and vDT the commander can identify any organizational misfits to the environment and the 1W attack susceptibilities of the organizational decision processes. In the end, this approach demonstrates that it is feasible to model organizational configuration and organizational decision processes in an Information Warfare environment
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Thesis
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Department
Department of Systems Management
Organization
Naval Postgraduate School
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Format
xiv, 127 p.;28 cm.
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Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited.
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This publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States.