An Information Architecture for Systems Engineering ‐ Progress, Examples, and Directions

As the complexity of our systems continues to rise, a growing number of engineers, managers and marketing professionals are realizing that they must make dramatic process improvements in order to address the challenges of timely systems development in a strong competitive environment. Three critical elements are needed to provide the foundation for these process improvements: 1) an information architecture; 2) an information structure, optimized by domain; and 3) Enterprise-wide decision making and technology planning processes. This paper will describe the progress made in developing and piloting these capabilities, provide an example of successful use, and outline some of the next steps.