Modeling of Change in Multi-Agent Organizations
Speaker
Abstract
| Organizational changes occur in a wide variety, from reorganizations within companies to reduce their costs, to disaster prevention organizations that are created to save human lives. In all cases, it is essential that the success rate of such changes is optimal. During organizational changes however, often the goals set for the change are not reached. Research has shown that this holds for over 70% of the changes within companies. |
| Over the last decades, techniques have been developed in the area of multi-agent systems that represent these systems on an organizational level, enabling an analysis of such systems from a more abstract perspective. In this talk I will show how such a formal organizational modeling approach, addressing both the structure as well as the behavior of an organization, is used to model change processes. These models can be used to optimize such processes, or predict the consequences of certain changes. |
| In the talk, three main parts within organizational change processes are addressed. First of all, the process of analyzing the current organizational situation and creation of improvements thereof. Furthermore, the process of moving from the current organization to this new organization is addressed. Finally, approaches to evaluate the effectiveness of such changes are presented. |
| Contact information: |
| Dr. Wolf Ketter |
