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Leveraging Objects for Privatizing Military Housing through Information Technology

Leveraging Objects for Privatizing Military Housing through Information Technology

Guisseppi A. Forgionne
Copyright: © 1999 |Pages: 10
ISBN13: 9781878289568|ISBN10: 187828956X
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-878289-56-8.ch008
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Forgionne, Guisseppi A. "Leveraging Objects for Privatizing Military Housing through Information Technology." Success and Pitfalls of Information Technology Management, edited by Mehdi Khosrow-Pour, D.B.A., IGI Global, 1999, pp. 87-96. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-878289-56-8.ch008

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Forgionne, G. (1999). Leveraging Objects for Privatizing Military Housing through Information Technology. In M. Khosrow-Pour, D.B.A. (Ed.), Success and Pitfalls of Information Technology Management (pp. 87-96). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-878289-56-8.ch008

Chicago

Forgionne, Guisseppi A. "Leveraging Objects for Privatizing Military Housing through Information Technology." In Success and Pitfalls of Information Technology Management, edited by Mehdi Khosrow-Pour, D.B.A., 87-96. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 1999. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-878289-56-8.ch008

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Abstract

The armed services must provide its personnel with acceptable housing at minimum cost within the vicinity of military installations. To achieve these housing objectives, the Department of Defense (DOD) has entered into experimental joint ventures with private developers to construct attractive housing projects on military installation property, with some of the projects reserved for military personnel. To support the analysis of the joint ventures, the DOD needed a methodology that would help officials evaluate the feasibility and cost implications of the housing projects. A decision support system, called the Housing Revitalization Support Office System (HRSOS), has been developed to provide the necessary support. The HRSOS architecture is based on a combination of database, econometric, simulation, and decision support techniques. Its deployment can help the Department of Defense to realize significant economic and management benefits. Future enhancements, motivated by the challenges from the current system, promise to increase the power of HRSOS and to further improve the DOD’s ability to manage its housing projects. To obtain the benefits, the HRSO experience suggests that system design, development, and implementation should be a team effort through an adaptive design strategy. It also indicates that an integrated suite of software development and implementation tools, offering rapid prototyping, computer assisted software engineering, and object-oriented analysis, can promote this strategy. The strategy is likely to work well in a hybrid project-technology virtual organizational form that is established and administered by the practicing top manager.

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