Corporate Information Management and HQDA

Abstract

Headquarters Department of Army (HQDA) must re-engineer its business processes and then apply information engineering techniques and methodologies to develop an efficient and effective information resource management (IRM) structure. The current DOD Corporate Information Management (CIM) initiative provides an excellent blueprint for accomplishing this. CIM is an excellent 'total management' approach to IRM and business process improvement. It recognizes that information and information systems (IS) are assets and provides a set of tools to integrate IS into the total business environment. This will help achieve the best return on the Army's IS investment in terms of productivity and customer satisfaction. There are 4 CIM management tools (enablers) that should be used: Reengineering (the business process and IS), Information Engineering (IE), Functional Economic Analysis (FEA), and Total Quality Management (TQM). This study examines the current HQDA business environment; an environment characterized by IS Stovepipes and industrial era organizational and business concepts. It attempts to identify the problems caused by the current environment and clarify how CIM can help to eliminate them.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 15, 1993
Accession Number
ADA264614

Entities

People

  • Mark D. Manning

Organizations

  • United States Army War College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Application Software
  • Business Administration
  • Communication Systems
  • Computer Programming
  • Computers
  • Corporate Information Management
  • Information Processing
  • Information Systems
  • Mainframe Computers
  • Management Personnel
  • Organizational Structure
  • Personnel Management
  • Resource Management
  • Systems Engineering
  • Systems Management
  • United States
  • War Colleges

Readers

  • Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.
  • Organizational Process Management (OPM).