Seen from the perspective of forming a continuous quality improvement organization, accomplishing the creation of a dynamic enterprise takes three phases.
Stage I would build the DEMIS baseline (AS-IS).
Stage II would use the DEMIS to transform the organization into one operating with a highly associative and integrated corporate management environment, working from a shared pool of data.
Stage III would begin when the organization uses the DEMIS for continuous quality improvement in satisfying the full life cycle of a customer requirement (TO-BE).
A DEMIS and its MIB could serve as the underlying database/repository for collaborating enterprise informing systems. Examples of such capabilities are: integrated function/program/project management, modeling, geographic/spatial information, computer aided design, network management, visualization, simulation, and command and control. This integrated visualization of change capability would serve as a dynamic enterprise awareness, assessment, and response system, an enterprise brain, with people, coordinated through the activities of this brain, forming the enterprise mind. This enterprise mind would be formed and operate from the interactive capabilities of enterprise people using information technology to focus on satisfying their customer’s requirements, thus ensuring the enterprise’s and their own survival and advancement.