1999 Command and Control Research and Technology Symposium (CCRTS), June 29 - July 1, 1999, U.S. Naval War College, Rhode IslandOrganizations that adapt to changes in their environment have a much better chance at
achieving their mission and performing well. When organizations do adapt they usually
alter their strategies, but rarely do they change their organizational structure even when
that structure no longer fits the mission. To identify the conditions that will be salient
enough to cause organizations to alter not only their strategies, but also their current
structures, we used a model-based design process to create mission scenarios that were
either matched (congruent) or mismatched (incongruent) with two organizational
structures (functional, divisional). We then examined measures over time to identify
ones that discriminated between congruent and incongruent conditions early in the
mission scenarios. Several measures of communications, performance and workload
appearedThe research reported here was sponsored by the Office of Naval Research, Contract No. N00014-02-C- 0233, under the direction of Gerald Malecki.The research reported here was sponsored by the Office of Naval Research, Contract No. N00014-02-C- 0233, under the direction of Gerald Malecki
