Example Enterprise Capabilities (i.e.,
Below illustrated As Layer T4 and T5 Functions With Their Processes and Resources (e.g., Budgets, Technologies))
That Can Simultaneously (And Thus With Much Less
Overhead And Integration Cost) Be Supported By A
Single GEM-Based Information System (That Provides The
Enterprise A Single, Shared, Integrated Information Source below illustrated As
T1, T2, and T3 Layers)
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- Capability Portfolio Management (e.g., Integrated
Military Warfare and Business Force Structure Management of missions,
organizations, functions, processes, and resources such as funds,
training, skills, equipment, information systems)
- Continuity Management (e.g., business/government
continuity from normal to most-degraded situations)
- Enterprise Information Portal For Dynamic Shared Situational
Awareness (e.g., dynamic
role-based content customization, precedence, and quality of service)
- Enterprise Architecture (e.g., Zachman, TOGAF/ADM, US
FEA, DoDAF 1/1.5/2 with CADM)
- Internal Control Modeling, Testing, and Verification System
(e.g., Sarbanes-Oxley Act for large commercial
organizations, DoD Internal Control program, etc.)
- Enterprise Knowledge Base (e.g., Semantic Web,
Ontology/KB Management)
- Customer Relations Management (e.g., Value-Chain and
Value-Lattice, Customer-Focused Continuous Quality Improvement)
- Unified User Management and Identity Management
(e.g., for role-based asset distribution and access provisioning, in
conjunction with Internal Controls)
- Strategic/Control/Operational Planning and Tracking (i.e., Strategic,
Operational, and Tactical Planning and Tracking in military context)
(e.g., for emergency/contingency/first response, for command and control,
for alignment of investments and operations on the mission)
- Staff/Workgroup Coordination (e.g., for role-based
affinity groups and communities of interest - COI)
- Operations (C3I) (e.g., for dynamic operations
supported by dynamic intelligence, providing real-time situational
awareness)
- Modeling and Simulation of Enterprise and internal Functions within
Dynamic Environment (e.g., for rapid scenario/contingency
generation for training, exercises, impact assessment, gaming,
role-playing)
- Demographic / Cartographic / Thematic / Business / Geographic Visualization
(e.g., for visual intelligence management and decision
making)
- Intelligence Collection / Fusion / Analysis (e.g.,
for government, market, and social situational awareness)
- ICASE / EA / CAD / GIS / EIS / Visualization / Management Repository
(e.g., for defragmentation of enterprise operations,
resources, requirements, and intelligence)
- Data Warehousing/OLAP/Business Intelligence (e.g.,
for quantitative historical and environmental basis for business
decisions)
- Realignment / Reorganization / Relocation (e.g., for
organization mergers, acquisitions, dissolutions, expansions)
- Privacy / Profiling / Context Management (e.g., for
legal, regulatory, and social protection of individual, group, commercial,
and government rights and resources)
- Contingency Organization (e.g., for rapid response
to changes in environment, resource, or operational factors)
- Information Resource Management (e.g., for
establishing controls-over and improving information content, containers,
and carriers)
- Private / Corporate / Government / National / Global Information Locator
(e.g., information asset indexing, searching,
categorizing, architecting, presenting, and maintaining information for
individual, group, organizational, community, and federated use.)
- Corporate Inventory / Cross-Index / Directory / Locator / Encyclopedia / Dictionary /
Taxonomy / Thesaurus / Ontology / Knowledge-Base (e.g., for automating and integrating enterprise models,
organization and function models, enterprise references, enterprise
architectures, enterprise inventories, and enterprise plans)
- Requirement Life Cycle Management (e.g., automation
of dynamic resource management life cycle for investment and operation
alignment on enterprise mission)
- Preparation for Activity Modeling and Data Modeling (e.g., IDEF)
(e.g., identification of specific stakeholders and experts
for a given functional subject)
- Preparation and Conduct of Business Process Improvements
(e.g., knowledge-based automated support for improvement
team modeling and design)
- Integrated Culture / Technology Change (e.g.,
support for complex change management involving cultural, political, and
emotional change, and for technology insertion)
- Activity Based Costing (e.g., from smallest to
largest activity)
- Economic Analysis (e.g., at local to global scale)
- Business Development and Marketing (e.g., modeling
capabilities, opportunities, and market dimensions for analysis on
multiple dimensions, and decision-making)
- Production / Distribution / Consumption / Disposal of Products and Byproducts
(e.g., automated physical asset logistics support)
- Job Base vs. Education/Vocation/Skill Training Base
(e.g., expertise gap analysis and training support)
- National/Regional/Local Modeling of: Education System, Health Care System, Ecological
System, Economic System (e.g., any scale model, from
subatomic to universal, and everything in between)
- Resource Leveling and Distribution (e.g., automated
support for variance-based resource assignment)
- Knowledge Management (e.g., semantic web, personal
knowledge, organization knowledge, species knowledge)
- Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Materiel Resource Planning (MRP), and Enterprise Resource Management (ERM)
(e.g., integration of ERP, MRP, and ERM into
enterprise operations and intelligence management)
- Just In Time (JIT) Resourcing (e.g., dynamic
role-based asset distribution scheduling and delivery)
- Materiel Management (e.g., integration of logistics
management into enterprise operations and intelligence management)
- Management Information Base (MIB) and Managed Object Facility (MOF)
(e.g., serve as the management repository for any portion
or the whole of the enterprise, including serving as the IT Management
repository for SNMP technologies and its successor WBEM/WMI/CIM
technologies)
- Directory Information Base (DIB) (e.g., serve as the
data store for LDAP and X.500 Directories)
- Corporate Accounting (e.g., serve as the
comprehensive mechanism for associating all enterprise elements with
financial costs, and tracking and reporting on those costed elements)
- Financial Management (e.g., serve as the
mission-based foundation for enterprise operation and investment financial
planning, programming, budgeting, execution, and review)
- Manpower/Position Management (e.g., integration of
staffing and structure management with required enterprise and functional
mission capabilities)
- Training Management
- Supply/Equipment Management
- Functional Management
- Program/Project Management
- Site Inventory
- Facility Management
- Network Management
- Configuration Management
- Online Documentation / Education / Training / Mentoring
- Knowledge / Skills/ Ability / Experience / Education / Training Inventory
(e.g., for human capital management and improvement)
- Interest Networking / Conferencing (e.g., role-based
affinity groups and communities of interest)
- Organizational Development
- Total Quality Management
- Customer Support/Service
- Performance Measurement
- Internal Management Control
- Risk, Vulnerability, and Assessment Management
- Policy Analysis
- Operations Research/Systems Analysis
- Research and Development
- Research Documentation
- Business Process Reengineering (BPR)