17 Dec, 92

2. Enterprise Engineering, A Systematic Approach to Quality.

3. Current conditions find the Federal Government, Executive Branch, DoD, and DISA operating in a fragmented fashion. As a result, there is tremendous duplication of effort, ineffective programs, and wasteful activity in all government operations and administration. All government operations and administration is therefore less productive than is currently acceptable. There is much written by government executives, academia, industry, and the general public about improving government, improving the economy, improving society, and fulfilling more of the human potential. There has been, until now, no systematic approach to achieve these three goals. I suggest just such a systematic approach, beginning with DISA and DoD.

4. I suggest the paradigm described in the attached briefing serve as a capstone model for integrating business reengineering, business process improvement, organizational development, and continuous quality improvement for any type and size of computer-networked United States government organization. I suggest that DISA utilize the attached Continuous Quality Improvement figure (Chart QIP-0.CH3) as a logo to display its continuous quality commitment and process to its members, its customers, and the public.

This suggestion contains a strategic/operational /administrative paradigm and implementation procedures from which to develop productive organizations. This paradigm is called Enterprise Engineering for Continuous Quality Improvement. These capabilities and all they entail, can be achieved in the near term.

I suggest that a baseline enterprise model be constructed for the Defense Information Systems Agency, that this enterprise model serve as the basis from which: IDEF modeling of DISA is achieved; DMRD 918 is implemented; and DISA conducts all its future operations and administration; and that the DISA enterprise model serve as the startpoint for building successive enterprise models for DoD, the Executive Branch, the federal government, NATO, and the United Nations, and as the startpoint for a dynamic national/international econometric model.

This suggestion is an integration and enhancement of my previous active Army suggestions ERAD280055, ERAD280056, ERAD280057, ERAD280058, ERAD290067, and ERHD920177.

5. It is not feasible to calculate the savings from this suggestion. An annual savings equal to 20% to 40% of an implementing organization's annual operation and maintenance, acquisition, and research and development budgets would be reachable.

Implementation of this suggestion would yield a management capability that enables responsible persons to have detailed and current awareness of their area of responsibility and the dynamic situations within and around it, much like a command and control system.

Implementation of this suggestion would provide great benefit as a single system that integrates and simplifies:

Strategic Planning,

Information Resource Management,

Financial Management,

Manpower/Position Management,

Training Management,

Operations (C3I),

Econometric Modeling,

Production/Distribution/Consumption Modeling for any resource(s),

Resource Leveling and Distribution,

Realignment/Reorganization,

Supply/Equipment Management,

Network Management,

Organizational Development for Human/Business Change Management,

Total Quality Management for Continuous Quality Improvement,

Corporate Information Management for Business Reengineering,

IDEF (Activity/Data Modeling) for Business Process Improvement,

Customer Relations,

Other Functional Management,

Corporate Directory/Locator/Encyclopedia/Dictionary/Inventory,

Requirement Life Cycle Management,

Internal Management Control, and more,

from a single secure pool of distributed data, with a corresponding reduction in administrative and operational overhead costs, and a corresponding synergistic increase in productivity, and a relatively low cost of implementation.

Implementation of this suggestion would enable improvements in quality, achieved through a management approach that supports every member of an enterprise in understanding their role and to see its importance within the larger framework of the enterprise mission, thus giving them partial ownership in enterprise performance and the capability to achieve their higher individual potential, and draw out their required commitment to change.

6. This enterprise engineering paradigm can be used to create continuous quality improvement organizations for any form of human enterprise, whether government, business, non-profit, private, educational, etc. It can be used as the data model underlying geographic information, computer aided design, computer aided software engineering, data visualization, simulation, command and control, network topology and management, and resource management systems. It can serve as the underlying data model for all enterprise systems. It is, by design, the most effective single horizontal and vertical integration approach to corporate management.