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WorkNet™ Development Methodology 2008 (WNDM 2008)
A fast,
smooth route to world-class results
DACOM solutions range from process e-Engineering to WorkNet habitats.
These solutions are built on a proprietary methodology called WorkNet
Development Methodology 2008. WNDM 2008 integrates data, processes,
behaviors, and technology with scientific management principles of
Information Resource Planning (IRP).
WNDM 2008 provides the means for moving WorkNets smoothly and systematically
through each of their life cycle phases:
- Design
- Development
- Prototyping
- Deployment
- Integration
- Sustainment
This proprietary
methodology uses the principles of Information Asset management
(IAM) to:
1. Facilitate
sharing
of WorkNet Lens, Inference Engine, and KnowledgeCore components across
multiple WorkNets within an enterprise. This sharing cuts software
costs and reduces the time required to bring WorkNets into existence
and to support and sustain them.
2. Manage the distributed technology platform - or conduit
- within which WorkNets and WorkNet Agents operate. Here, WNDM 2008
streamlines processes that include technology planning and procurement,
network management, installation, move/add/change actions, asset management,
and help desk functions.
3. Sustaining Improvement: DACOM continues to provide skills
and services as needed to support you in sustaining ongoing improvement
- and continued gains - within your organization.
WorkNet Development Methodology
Through this process, e-Business applications are built into the e-Business
infrastructure. The need to implement new business models is the starting
point for this e-Process Engineering - or process transformation.
DACOM's process improvement team analyzes your current business practices,
and develops what is known as a "To-Be " business process.
It is this To-Be process that the WorkNet is then designed to support.
The process itself (known as an activity or process model)
plus a data model (sometimes referred to as a semantic model)
are integral elements of developing the appropriate WorkNet. The process
model tells the designer what business activities the WorkNet needs
to support, and how these activities inter-relate. The data model
tells the KnowledgeCore designer how to resolve semantic differences
between the various content sources that the WorkNets will draw upon,
plus how to map to the appropriate operators in the Inference Engine.
Once the WorkNet design team receives this input from the process
engineering team, the WorkNet Lens Architecture is designed and the
KnowledgeCore is developed.
The KnowledgeCore includes the intellectual assets - proprietary and
non-proprietary - required to energize individual activities within
the e-Business process. Elements of the KnowledgeCore are shared among
applications and provide the primary means of integrating them within
the business infrastructure. Each newly integrated application is
then moved into a prototype phase to fine-tune the WorkNet for its
process - and for its ease of operation by users. After the
prototype has been completed, the WorkNet is deployed into the e-Business
infrastructure and moves into its sustainment phase. |
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