Future of Military HQ: An Exploration of the Organisational Design Implications of Modularisation

摘要

When organizations operate in an environment that is dynamic, complex and unpredictable they need to develop more flexible structures if they are to increase their chances of surviving. Advances in information and communication technology (ICT), implemented with the appropriate process and structural change, offer the prospect of improving the flexibility of organizations. It is proposed that future military headquarters (HQ) can achieve this flexibility through Modular Capability Expansion (MCE), which is a modular organizational structure enabled by networked information management and communication technologies. This paper provides a critical examination of MCE and reports the results of an experiment exploring some of the technological and organizational design issues associated with modularisation.