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 performa...

Today’s organizations’ application landscapes still consist of terminal based legacy systems, running on reliable mainframes. Grown over the past decades, these legacy systems are involved into mission critical parts of organizations’ core businesses. Within the establishment of a service-oriented application landscape, these mission critical systems have to be integrated in a loosely coupled way.

How do teams cope with a misalignment between their organizational structures and mission requirements? Through a series of empirical and modeling efforts, our long-term goal is to understand the nature of organizational congruence, and to predict and measure the effects of a lack of congruence on the behaviors of organizations as they strive to adapt. In this paper, we present a series of less...

Information is a critical asset on which all modern organizations depend to meet their mission objectives. Military organizations, in particular, have embedded Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) into their core mission processes as a means to increase their operational efficiency, exploit automation, improve decision quality, and enable real-time situational awareness. However, a...

Modern organizations have a huge challenge on their hands, on a scale unlike anything they’ve seen since the Y2K crisis. They must “secure” the organization in the face of increasing complexity, uncertainty, and interconnection brought about by an unprecedented reliance on technology to accomplish their mission. They must also stay mindful of the heavy hand of regulation as legislators discover...

The religious origin of organizational behavior is not easy to recognize, nor are the implications of the Christian heritage of concepts and ideas as applied to organizations. This paper seeks to remedy this by investigating the theological roots of the mission concept. Our central argument is that corporate mission statements are sometimes used as manipulative communicative tools which seek or...