Many companies –large and small– have at some time in their history conducted a in-depth review of their purpose: “what they are there for”. The result very often is a mission statement, values statement, or some such. The real challenge, however, is to get that mission and those values across to the company as a whole, so that they are espoused by all members of the organization. The problem i...

A. Objectives In this paper, we extend our three-phase organizational design process ([2], [3]), which hypothesizes that congruence between missions and organizations leads to superior organizational performance, to include mission monitoring and dynamic re-planning in order to maintain a desired level of congruence. The dynamic mission monitoring facilitates situation awareness at the team lev...

The Intelligent Virtual Station (IVS) has been developed by the Smart Systems Research Laboratory at the NASA Ames Research Center as a solution to some of the training and operations challenges faced by organizations like the International Space Station training facilities and Mission Control engineering teams. At present, astronaut crews are constrained by limited access to physical mockups, ...

As religious sponsors increasingly relinquished their CEO positions throughout the 1980s and early 1990s, they established mission integration positions-staffed primarily by women religious-to help ensure the Catholic identity of their facilities. Now that role, too, is undergoing change as sponsors seek to empower the laity in their organizations with responsibility for carrying on the Church'...

Swarms of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) have been foreseen by multiple organizations to serve an important role in future air-based warfare and civilian operations. UAVs are less expensive than their piloted counterparts, provide greater flexibilities and remove the need for on-board pilot support. Efficient control of swarms opens a set of new challenges, such as automatic UAV coordination, e...

Cerner is the world's largest publicly-traded health information technology company providing leading-edge solutions and services for health care organizations worldwide. Cerner's mission is to contribute to the systemic improvement of health care delivery and the health of communities.

Human organizations that have begun to rely on networks for collaboration are already prolific. Networked collaboration is highly beneficial in many group activity including mixed teams of humans and agents. The prospect of understanding complex interactions on network organizations has prompted us to develop a paradigm serving as a reference model for organizations of networked individuals. In...