Public organizations produce daily a great volume of administrative documents, in order to fulfill their mission. This requires the use of a certain, unique for each procedure, legal framework. This article adopts a process oriented approach, through a web-based knowledge management system that provides this legal framework in an up-to-date and accurate manner. The system also supports the inte...

The authors of this paper describe the EXTRA Program, its intended outcomes, the approach they used to evaluate the program and some initial findings regarding the program's effects on the EXTRA fellows after the initial two-year period. The program's mission is to develop capacity and leadership to optimize the use of research-based evidence in Canadian healthcare organizations. Using Kirkpatr...

The management of naval organizations aims at the maximization of mission success by means of monitoring, planning, and strategic reasoning. This paper presents a meta-level architecture for strategic reasoning in naval planning. The architecture is instantiated with decision knowledge acquired from naval domain experts, and is formed into an executable model which is used to perform a number o...

background: this study aimed to identify factors contributing to the creation of intellectual capital in the organization of education. the research method is a descriptive and exploratory factor analysis method. a sample: directors and deputies of the second period secondary education department of tehran province. based on stratified random sampling method and based on a sample of 500 was cal...

Collaboration Engineering (CE) is a new field o f research and practice which involves the design of recurring collaboration processes that are meant to cause predictable and success among organizations ’ recurring mission-critical collaborative tasks. To measure the effectiveness o f CE research efforts, we would need to use a research methodology. This article therefore provides an overview o...

The management of naval organizations aims at the maximization of mission success by means of monitoring, planning, and strategic reasoning. This paper presents an agent-based meta-level architecture for strategic reasoning in naval planning. The architecture is instantiated with decision knowledge acquired from naval domain experts and is formed into an executable agentbased model which is use...

As organizations become more complex the business units that comprise them have differing requirements for electronic records. Recent focus on regulatory compliance brought about by such issues as accounting scandals and identity theft have brought newfound pressure for IT managers to make sure that their electronic records and the IT processes that create them are in compliance with these stan...

Organizations are supposed to be systems and consequently require defining the notion of equilibrium within. However, organizations comprise people and unavoidably entail their irrational aspects. Then, the question is what is the organizational equilibrium and equilibrating mechanisms considering these aspects. Hence, some arguments are provided here to conceptualize human unconsciousness, irr...

As the Army undergoes a transformation from the logistics intensive organizations that currently comprise the force to a more agile and sustainable force, changes in logistics concepts and organizations are inevitable. Because much of the Army’s future equipment and most future organizations are still in the conceptual stages, these elements must be modeled. Simulation provides a valuable tool ...