ORGANIZATIONAL ENGINEERING

The emergence of networked technology is profoundly changing the way commercial and military organizations can operate. New levels of performance are possible through global operations, diverse workforces, the ability to quickly form and dissolve widely distributed teams for special missions, and the evolving capabilities of communications and information software.

But these changes also present challenges. How can organizations take advantage of this ever-increasing connectedness to perform most effectively? How do leaders make decisions in this changing landscape? How should an organization operate in such a fluid world?

Components of Organziational Effectiveness The Aptima approach. Aptima addresses these challenges with innovative organizational engineering products and services that optimize the three pillars of organizational effectiveness: structures, processes, and leadership. Aptima uses advanced computational modeling methods to optimize the structure and processes of evolving organizations, and we design training for the leadership skills needed in these new structures.

Aptima optimizes all three components of organizational effectiveness: Structures, Processes, and Leadership.

Aptima’s A▪Model product family supports our Organizational Engineering services. Our unique organizational modeling tool, MOST, blends organizational theory with computational methods and empirical data to design new organizational structures and explore their potential performance. Our repeatable, traceable methods lead to acceptance and buy-in for organizational changes. Aptima’s methods and tools are scalable, from two person teams to multi-national coalitions.

Aptima in action. Recent applications include the design of innovative organizational structures for joint task forces, and the prediction of the crew size needed for a new semi-automated aircraft.

Aptima’s organizational technology is also helping the military understand the operations of enemy organizations such as terrorist networks through the use of Social Network Analysis. We use our technology for computational modeling of diverse organizational structures to detect the covert structure of terrorist groups and evaluate counterterrorism strategies that exploit their vulnerabilities.