Supporting Effects-Based Operations (EBO) with Information Technology Tools: Examining Underlying Assumptions of EBO Tool Development Practices

摘要

This effort examined, from both theoretical and empirical perspectives, major paradigms underlying the support of strategic decision processes in hyper-competitive environments. The primary research objectives were to (1) to develop a theoretic schema of approaches to strategic decision support, and (2) to provide an empirical research plan and detailed experimental design to assess the efficacy of the different paradigms. This final report identifies four major paradigms or 'schools of thought' of strategic decision support: autonomous, directive, predictive, and emergent. The proposed paradigms are offered to illustrate how recent EBO tool development approaches may be classified and subsequently characterized based upon their inherent gravitation to a particular decision support paradigm.