Through collaboration with colleagues at Stanford University, the Edge Center has developed extensiveexperience with POW-ER (Projects, Organizations and Work for Edge Research), an environment forcomputational modeling of organizations and processes. POW-ER enables one to model, simulate andanalyze the comparative performance of alternate organization designs--including different organizationstructures, work processes, technologies and personnel--in a virtual environment. This enables thecomparative strengths and weaknesses of competing organization designs to be identified and analyzed,very quickly, in advance of making decisions to commit or change to any one or another. Hence it caninform the organization leader and policy maker to an unprecedented degree.
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