Self-organizing executive information networks

摘要

Organizations acquire decision support systems in order to deliver the information needed for decision making. But at executive levels, rapid changes in organizational structure or executive decision making can quickly obsolete an existing information dissemination structure. Insights gained from prior research in executive activities, executive support systems and neural networks are used in this research to design an adaptive, self-organizing system for the dissemination of information to executives. These self-organizing executive information networks are able to learn from the changing needs of their executive constituency. A neural network based executive information system incorporates a system for responding to organizational changes in responsibilities and information flows as an integral part of the information dissemination system. Extensive research in neural network based computer systems and in studies of biological systems have shown the practicality of this approach.