Information Structures for Single Echelon Organizations,

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Abstract:

A methodology for designing the information structures for decision makers who comprise the boundary between an organization and its environment is presented. The environment is modeled as a source that generates symbols or messages that the organization members must process without being overloaded. Two basic information reduction strategies are considered 1 creation of self contained tasks, and 2 creation of slack resources. The former leads to the partitioning of the input signal and the parallel processing of the partition the latter to alternate processing where each decision maker receives signals according to some deterministic rule but is given more time to process them, i.e., a delay is introduced. These two strategies are then integrated to produce a variety of information structures for special cases. Author

Author(s):
Stabile, Debra A. ; Levis, Alexander H. ; Hall, Susan A.
Author Organization(s):
MASSACHUSETTS INST OF TECH CAMBRIDGE LAB FOR INFORMATION AND DECISION SYSTEMS
Supplementary Note:
Prepared in cooperation with ICF, Inc., Washington, DC.
Pagination:
0045

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DOCUMENT & CONTEXTUAL SUMMARY

Distribution:
Approved For Public Release

RECORD

Collection: TR
Identifying Numbers
Report Number(s):
LIDS-P-1180
Contract/Grant Number(s):
N00014-77-C-0532, AFOSR-80-0229
 Subject Terms
Joint Capability Areas:
JCA_5_Command and Control; JCA_5.3_Planning; JCA_5.5.2_Task; JCA_5.5_Direct; JCA_5.4_Decide; JCA_1_Force Support; JCA_6_Net Centric; JCA_1.3_Human Capital Management; JCA_1.3.2_Personnel Management; JCA_6.1_Information Transport; JCA_1.2_Force Preparation; JCA_1.2.6_Concepts; JCA_6.2.1_Information Sharing; JCA_6.2.2_Computing Services
Communities of Interest:
Materials and Manufacturing Processes
Descriptor(s):
*Decision making, Performance(Human), Work functions, Information processing, Parallel processing, Data management, Data reduction, Resource management, Input, Models, Methodology, Organizations, Environments, Time dependence, Delay
Field(s)/Group(s):
Administration and Management
Keyword(s):
Single echelon organizations, Information structures
Report Date:
1981 Jan 01