Modeling the information-processing aspect of organizational functions

Information is essential to the performance, control, and coordination of an organization´s functions. Yet, although an increasingly broad variety of models is used for the analysis and evaluation of organizational processes and functions, their information-processing aspects are only rarely considered in these models. In this paper I present an approach to the abstraction and description of information-processing aspects of organizational functions. The descriptions so obtained can then be translated into simulation models that, interfaced with suitable models of the organizational functions they support; can be used for the design and analysis of organizational functions as well as for the development of their supporting information systems