All the data, information, and knowledge necessary to create the model currently exist within and around each enterprise. It would not function otherwise. However, it is does not usually have useful patterns of form and flow. It is often confusing and unwieldy, with unconstrained variation. It therefore contains too much non-informing data, which is noise/overhead, a waste of resources. The most likely object classes to contain or generate excessive overhead is the organization and function object classes, primarily because their composition usually results from more subjective decisions by the enterprise executives, rather than by objective decisions.

Building a DEMIS resolves/organizes this data, information, and knowledge into a simple ordered structure, which we then use for simultaneous analysis and transaction processing, and for change management. It also provides the capability to view the enterprise in many forms, all variations on a common theme.

By building and maintaining a system that displays the dynamic relationships between these object classes, the DEM delivers significant useful information to the enterprise at each phase of informing/involving/coordinating system implementation, for all stage of supplier activities.

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