A Conceptual Framework For Describing, Simulating and Designing Enterprises, and It’s Formal Codification

Computational Organization Design

Volume

Papers from the 1994 AAAI Spring Symposium

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We are experimenting with a five-dimensional description of EMS quality which provides a template for diagnosing actual systems, and for evaluating proposed quality-improving changes to EMS designs. This framework has been derived from experience gained in international executive management and it has helped us develop hypotheses about the dependence of stakeholders’ performance prospects on their EMS designs. These hypotheses are particularly important in assessing the ability of an EMS to provide attractive performance prospects in the complicated, distributed, interdependent organisation designs for enterprises which are required to operate competitively in highly dynamic environments.