The process of building and refining the DEMIS takes place in distinct stages. Each stage results in delivered products that have significant benefit to the enterprise and its teams/offices/members. If carried to its final stage, the DEMIS provides the equivalent of an intelligent organization. The resultant intelligent organization possesses capabilities and capacity that were, until recently, only dreamed of.

A DEMIS can provide this increasingly greater capability and capacity at a fraction of the cost, in a fraction of the time, of any other approach.

The key to success with DEMIS is the unitary view of the multidimensional enterprise in its environment.

The matrix shown here would result from building the baseline DEM. It would serve as a model showing the composition and required distribution for any object of interest to the enterprise.

As a result of building the DEM baseline, any person within the organization could view direct and indirect functions, activities, resources and requirements associated with their position. The model limits their network access to those objects which authorities associate with the person or position. Object authorities give individuals and groups permanent or ad-hoc access to their objects based on an approved requirement.

In this sense, the Enterprise’s total context would serve as the "interest profile" of the entire aggregated membership of the enterprise. The hierarchical catalog format arranges the objects of interest. The Enterprise Context would then serve as the framework for informing, involving, and coordinating the members when objects of interest, whether internal or external to the enterprise are going through some change/transaction.

This informing/involving/coordinating action of the Context engine operates across boundaries, supporting all appropriate stakeholders in that object change/transaction, regardless of the concept of operation. The control point is in determining the appropriateness of involvement and coordination. A useful guideline is: maximal informing, feasible involving, and practicable coordinating.

Location, work unit, activity, resource and requirement life-cycle quality and quantity, and not technical limitations, then determine the principal basis of informing, involving, and coordinating within an organization.

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