INFORMATION RESOURCES MANAGEMENT BASED ON FEEDBACK THEORY IN A MILITARY ORGANIZATION
INFORMATION RESOURCES MANAGEMENT BASED ON FEEDBACK THEORY IN A MILITARY ORGANIZATION

Summary/Abstract: For a better understanding of the transition from Industrial Age to Information Age, the aspects that have undergone radical changes need to be first identified. In the past years the technological development caused an exponential increase in the capability to collect, process, disseminate and use information. In order to be competitive in this environment an organization must use all available information. It is not possible to use efficient all available information without a management structure designed to adapt continuously the information fluxes. If we took into consideration the amount of information created will double at every two years, this information management structure is vital for a good organization. One way to deal with this challenge is to use the state of the art information technology systems. Unfortunately the IT systems cannot solve all challenges of information age. Because those systems are used by people the organization architecture must be adapted also to information age challenges. Our organization must change the architecture in order to be able to use large amount of information. This task is not an easy one because during our history we do not have a similar example. One way to design the organization architecture is to use the feedback theory to manage the information fluxes. The feedback is used in nature with great results and is a very efficient way to deal with large amount of information. The term feedback refers to a situation in which two dynamical systems or in our case parts of an organization are connected together in such a way that each system influence s the other and their dynamics are strongly coupled.

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