CASOS Working PAPER

"Measures for ORA (Organizational Risk Analyzer)"(PDF file)
Authors: Jeffrey Reminga and Kathleen M. Carley

Abstract
ORA is the organizational risk analyzer. Its purpose is to assess the level of possible organizational risk and the factors that contribute to this risk. All measures are based on the meta-matrix and take in to account the relations among personnel, knowledge, resources and tasks. These measures are based on work in social networks, operations research, organization theory, knowledge management, and task management. As ORA is a product in development, additional measures will be added.
ORA runs on a PC running windows 2000 or XP operating system. The system interface is in JAVA and the measures are a combination of C and C++.
ORA takes as input one or more matrices in the meta-matrix for an organization and then calculates the measures herein.