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Mission of
the Edge Center
The Edge Center was
established officially in 2004,
through anchor funding by the
US Assistant Secretary of
Defense (NII), to lead and
conduct innovative research in
what the Military terms command
and control (C2). Much
broader than just military
organizations, our research
applies very generally to the
organization, management and
technological integration of
all collectivities (e.g.,
military, government, business,
non-profit) in which
participants share at least
partially aligned goals. We
focus on advancing the state of
the art and the state of the
practice through the
integration of theoretical and
applied work--conceptual and
technical, from the social and
physical sciences alike--and we
embrace the whole research
cycle: from conceptualization
and modeling, through design
and analysis--including
prototyping and discovery
through computational,
laboratory and field
experimentation--to operational
implementation and refinement.
The term edge
derives from Alberts and Hayes
(2003), who advocate increasing
organization power (i.e., the
capability to accomplish
intended actions) by enhancing
the flows of knowledge,
information and authority from
the "centers" of organizations
to their "edges." Using this
metaphor, center refers
principally to the Strategic
Apex, and edge refers
principally to where
organization participants
interact directly with their
environments (e.g., where
salespeople interact with
customers, where elected
officials interact with
constituents, where military
warriors engage in battle). The
concept clearly involves more
than simply realigning
organization charts and
reallocating decision rights;
people at the edges of
organizations must know what to
do, and how and when to do it
well with others, to accomplish
organizational goals.
Participants
in the Edge Center
Research associated with the
Edge Center is
multidisciplinary,
innovation-oriented, and
reaches well beyond the NPS,
involving a world-class team of
faculty, postdocs and PhD
students from multiple, top
universities around the world.
A partial list of key
participants follows.
- Frank Barrett, PhD,
School of Business &
Public Policy
- John Dillard, Colonel
(Ret), School of Business
& Public Policy
- Thomas Lucas, PhD, School
of Operational &
Information Sciences
- Mark Nissen, PhD, Edge
Center/School of
Operational &
Information Sciences
- Edward Powley, PhD,
School of Business &
Public Policy
- Susan Sanchez, PhD,
School of Operational &
Information Sciences
- Academia
Militar
Fernando Freire, Colonel,
Operational
Research/Decision
Management and Theory
Marco Manso, MSE, Edisoft
Corporation
- George Mason
University
M. Layne Kalbfleisch, PhD,
KIDLab
- Hoover
Institution
Katya Drozdova, PhD,
Research Associate
- Johns Hopkins
University
Jay Liebowitz, PhD, Carey
Business School
- Loyalist College
Ken Hudson, Virtual World
Design Centre
- Parity
Corporation
Mary Ruddy, MSIS, ELICIT
- Purdue
University
Hong Wan, PhD, School of
Industrial Engineering
- Referentia
Corporation
Adam Forsyth, PhD,
Technical Staff
- Stanford
University
Raymond Levitt, PhD, School
of Civil &
Environmental
Engineering
Ryan Orr, PhD, Center for
Research on Global
Projects
Marc Ramsey, Center for
Research on Global
Projects
W. Richard Scott, PhD,
Department of Sociology
(Emeritus)
- Universität der
Bundeswehr München
Petra Eggenhofer, PhD,
Institute of Technology of
Intelligent Systems
Reiner Huber, PhD,
Institute of Technology of
Intelligent Systems
(Emeritus)
- University of
California at
Irvine
Walt Scacchi, PhD,
Institute for Software
Research
- University of
Kentucky
Clyde Holsapple, PhD,
School of Management
- University of
Southern
California
Clayton Morrison, PhD,
Information Sciences
Institute
Yan Jin, PhD, School of
Engineering
- University of
Washington
Kevin Desouza, PhD, School
of Information
Sumit Roy, PhD, School of
Engineering
- US Army Research
Laboratory
Elizabeth Bowman
Kevin Chan, PhD
- US Office of the
Secretary of
Defense
David Alberts, PhD,
Networks & Information
Integration/Command &
Control Research Program
Alenka Brown, PhD, Networks
& Information
Integration/Defense Threat
Reduction Agency
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