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Content of a Through Life Information Managment Strategy

Management Vision for exploiting the digital environment:

  • Brief description of desired future working style
  • Evidence of top management commitment

 

Selected improvement Targets:

  • Specific Business Improvements that CALS is required to deliver on this program:
  • Intended metrics and method of measurement.

 

Description of the Program Business Environment and Options:

  • Program goals and priorities.
  • Project policies, decisions taken, and time scale, (refer to existing documents)
  • Roles and Relationships through life:
    • PMO and Prime Contractor
    • PMO and Operational and Support agencies
    • Industry involvement through life
    • Multinational bodies – NAMSA, Co-operative Logistic Initiatives
    • Intentions for in-service Support : extent of contractor involvement.
    • Management of Updates
    • Competition v co-operation
    • IPR

Warrantees and Incentive mechanisms

  • Options to be maintained
  • Agreed description of the DS lifecycle, presented as a TLBM
  • Issues requiring attention in NCOPS Stage 2

 

IT Environment Assessment:

  • Extent of digital working
  • Relevant legacy systems
  • Relevant IT trends
  • IT policies and plans
  • experience of other programs
  • available software tools (now and future).

 

SDE Options for the Program

(Consider 3 options - maximum, "best", minimum)

  • Extent of SDE,
  • Expected Capabilities,
  • Who will have access
  • Boundaries and Interfaces
  • Ownership
  • Control
  • Impact on Processes
  • Impact on People
  • Evolution over time

 

Assessment of Options: Costs, benefits and risks

  • Program Life Cycle Cost model (need to assess options)
  • Value added by target improvements
  • Costs of SDE (don’t forget people, software, maintenance, etc )
  • Risks: Technical, Cultural, process Change etc. How much change can we manage? (Evolution v revolution!)
  • Outline risk management plan

 

Program Intentions for CALS (Decisions)

  • Intentions for digital working
  • SDE options for further development

 

Intangible benefits from establishing a Through Life Information Managment Strategy:

"Top program management is aware of the opportunities presented by digital data"

"Everyone in the program knows what is intended for CALS, and what it is expected to deliver"

"Program staff begin to understand life cycle management"

"Program staff start to view information as an asset, to be manage over time."
Content last modified
10/4/2000 11:16:34 AM
by TK
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