Command-and-Control and Management Decision Making

Abstract

Development of command-and-control systems in support of decision making and action taking has been accomplished by military organizations. Upon examination, the major concepts underlying these systems are management concepts. Experience in building command-and-control systems should be valuable in helping to sharpen management concepts and also in perfecting techniques of engineering, computer-programming, and operational methods and procedures applicable to automatic management systems. The command-and-control type system for top management decision making is a man-machine system having at its core an ongoing, dynamic operation. Current technology is adequate for the development by non-military organizations of the command-and-control type of system for management decision making.