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Do you need to successfully achieve your intended results at the lowest cost, with the highest quality, in the fastest time?

Do you need to find, connect, and organize the information and data around you to make it more relevant, accessible, securely-sharable, and useful?

Do you need information and situational awareness from your external operating environment as well as your internal operatons?

Do you need to adjust your plans and intentions when your situation changes?

Do you need to influence the external situations that you cannot control?

Does the world and U.S. National financial market need to improve the way they manage their interdependent eneavors?

Do the incoming U.S. Presidential Candidates need new capabilities to improve the management of the next U.S. Federal Government's Administration?

The typical answer to the above questions is "yes". And there are many management, planning, and improvement approaches and technologies to satisfy some or all of these common needs.

But is there one approach that can be used to simplify and satisfy all of these needs, while simultaneously including, blending, and simplifying all of your other efforts?

The General Endeavor Management (GEM) approach is designed, and proven, to provide one single approach to achieving your personal, group, organizational or combined endeavor's success while building on and enhancing your previous efforts, approaches, and technologies. See the site content hierarchy.

Use of GEM provides local, regional, national, and global capabilities to have securely and appropriately shared situational awareness, to enable whatever degree of cooperation is needed.

GEM is both a bottom-up and top-down approach. We support bottom-up identification, enrollment, term identification and definition, and model and data collection, aggregation, integration, normalization, and then unification. From this term, data, and model unification we provide a mechanism for federated operations with unified awareness.

We provide guidance and support on using a consistent operations and management approach at all levels. So as you progress to the aggregation phase, you'll begin to have an increasingly complete top-down view for analysis, simplification, re-use, cooperation, and investment opportunities, but the operational activities, and most decisions will be from the bottom, escalating upward as the situation warrants.

This site presents simplified GEM guidance and enables comment and discussion on GEM and its included Enterprise Management Architecture (EMA) approach. More detailed documentation on GEM and EMA is available at http://www.one-world-is.org/rer/owis/publications.htm. This material is for any person, group, organization, community, or combinations of these, that have needs to successfully and measurably achieve their intended results.

My own professional efforts are focused on building enterprise management services practices for all organizations, serving as an "executive" enterprise architect on retainer, or serving as a "meta" architect that helps define and develop enterprise architecture concepts, methodologies, metaschema, and supporting technology-specifications that can leverage the less complete OMB FEA, DoDAF, and TOGAF as portions of a larger "enterprise intelligence-base". A good article that illustrates where I propose that GEM and EMA fit within the overall EA industry, as a "meta-architecture", is written by Mark Rosen for the Cutter Consortium (http://www.cutter.com/research/2008/edge080129.html).

GEM provides a "simplifying" method and structure for organizing and managing the information of any endeavor. See my GEM approach, to include EA methodology. This then enables more and more-successful "co-operation" and "adaptive transformation" across the various endeavors that use the GEM approach. If an endeavor doesn't yet use the GEM approach, by beginning to increasingly apply the GEM approach, they can increasingly gain appropriately-secured, and appropriately-shared situational awareness, and improved ability to cooperate with other GEM endeavors, and adaptively transform in relation to their internal and external environments' changes.

If any persons, groups, or organizations want to have a discussion on this site of any of the above referenced OWIS publications, send me an email requesting it, and I'll set up a discussion page for that item. Contributing to the discussion will require registration with this Google Group.

If you find value in the EMA and GEM, please provide donations, tithes, and gifts at http://www.one-world-is.com/paypal/paypal-contribute1.htm in line with that value. We make a standing request for annual support of: $10 for individual contributors, $100 for management practitioners such as Management Consultants and Enterprise Architects, $500 for small business, $1000 for medium-sized organizations, and $2500 for large organizations and government organizations. If you prefer to pay by check, use the address block below.

If you want GEM or EMA services, or want a Proposal for a GEM-EMA Solution to your requirements, Statement of Work (SOW), Statement of Objective (SOO), etc. see our Services and Rates page http://www.one-world-is.com/rer/resume-services-rates/Roebuck%20Services%20and%20Rates.htm.

If you want to professionally sponsor One World Information System (OWIS) in its mission of advocating, advancing, and supporting GEM and EMA efforts, contact sponsor@one-world-is.org.

Thanks.