Roebuck's Endeavor - Timeline

  • 1957 – Envisioned and Designed an Object/Connection Model of the World Based on the Perception of “thought causes effect” and "everything is connected".
  • 1965 – Envisioned and Designed a Knowledge Spiral Process
    • – Balancing Of Mind (Science, Society, Perception)
    • – Growth Of Mind (Expanding Reusable Knowledge)
  • 1969 – Adopted a Technology Model
    • – Technology Merges/Extends Knowledge
    • – Technology is Science Applied to Social Need
  • 1980 - Applied early GEM approach to zero-base justify the annual, exercise, and deployment budgets for an Army battalion and to manage the logistics and financial resources in multiple exercises and deployments.
  • 1981 - Began documenting the holistic General Endeavor Management (GEM) approach in Graduate School courses
  • 1982 - Applied early GEM approach to zero-based justification for an Army Major Subordinate Command's mission, force structure, budget, and first WAN/LAN/PC capability, working with early spreadsheets, CAD, graphics, and word-processor software and corporate database extracts.
  • 1983 – Envisioned and Developed a Whole-Intelligence Model
    • – Semantics Simplifies Knowledge and Simplifies Sharing It
  • 1983 – Envisioned and Developed a Holistic Management Model
    • – Incorporating Norman Vincent Peal’s Rational Thought Process
    • – Incorporating A Management Definition – Resolve Current Chaos Into The Next Order
      • (Applying Ilya Prigogine’s 1978 Nobel Prize-winning concept of self-organizing structure, negative entropy, and the sciences behind dynamical systems.)
  • 1985 – Envisioned and developing supporting technology specifications and testing the technologies' utility.
  • 1987 – Envisioned and Developed GEM as a whole-enterprise-management Implementation, Operation, Maintenance, and Extension Methodology
  • 1988 - Began submitting GEM into DoD Suggestion Programs (additional submissions and resubmissions in 1989, 1991, 1992) for national-level, federal-level, DoD, and Military-department whole-enterprise management.
  • 1989 - Incorporated IDEF modeling elements (Activity Decomposition with IDEF0, Resource Modeling with IDEF1x) into GEM terminology.
  • 1989 - Implemented a GEM multi-dimensional database application (i.e., an EA repository) focused on managing a Theater Army's peacetime IT Architecture, Plans, and Execution (i.e., Total Architecture Plans and Execution System - TAPES).
  • 1991 - Provided GEM/TAPES input to DoD Corporate Information Management (CIM) Initiative, with GEM/TAPES being described as "the whole goldmine" in requests for "golden nuggets".
  • 1992 - Tailored GEM to incorporate TQM (now SixSigma), Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI), and holistic improvement (now Lean) capabilities and terminology.
  • 1993 - Provided early GEM-based IT Technical Reference Model (from 1989-1992 IT database management application) as input to early DoD/DISA Technical Architecture for Information Management (TAFIM) efforts.
  • 1993 - Provided GEM methodology and metamodel (data model) as suggested structures, respectively, for the DoD Enterprise Model and Enterprise Data Model.
  • 1994 - Provided GEM-based approach to terminology management (now evolved as inventoried words, to applied terms (individual lexicons), to definitions, to group glossaries, to taxonomies, to thesaurus, to concept maps (process models, data models, object-role models, to ontologies, to knowledge-bases, to axiologies, to value-lattices)
  • 1993 - Tailored GEM to incorporate Complex Change Management capabilities and terminology.
  • 1994 - Published GEM to the Internet at http://www.one-world-is.com.
  • 1994 - Tailored GEM to incorporate Business Process Reengineering (BPR) capabilities and terminology.
  • 1995 - Tailored GEM to incorporate the evolving DoD C4ISR "System of Systems" architecture.
  • 1996 - Tailored GEM as the foundation of the technical approach for a proposal than won a DoD/OSD Strategic BPR contract.
  • 1997 - Tailored GEM for a large-scale system/software engineering project for DoD, providing a coherent and cohesive system engineering management process, a full-life-cycle technology insertion process, and a dependency-based system-of-systems testing and integration scheduling mechanism.
  • 1998 - Implemented the evolved GEM approach as an MS Access and MS SQL Server multidimensional database (i.e., EA repository) application.
  • 1999 - Tailored GEM to support the DoD "Next Generation" eCommerce enterprise architecture.
  • 1999 - Submitted GEM-related design ideas into the US CIO Council's evolving Federal Enterprise Architecture Framework (FEAF)
  • 2000 - Identified a commercial knowledge-modeling tool and metadata-repository capable of supporting the full GEM capability. 
  • 2002 - On reviewing the OMB FEA approach to a Federal Enterprise Architecture (FEA), and its five Reference Models (i.e., taxonomies), tailored GEM to provide a whole-enterprise management capability by extending the OMB FEA approach.
  • 2004 - Applied GEM to support a Federal Executive Department's EA efforts, mapping their IT inventory to their TRM and SRM, thus providing a line of sight from BRM to IT to SRM to TRM.
  • 2005 - Applied GEM in a White House prototype project (through OSTP) to provide the ontology for an operational Federal Executive Branch (FEB) Continuity Communication Enterprise Architecture (CCEA), as a start point for FEB and National Business Continuity (encompassing all National Essential Functions - NEF).
  • 2005 - Identified technology-specifications of newer semantic technologies that could largely automate the GEM "Intelligence Inventory" process.
  • 2006 - Applied GEM to provide the "Semantic Analysis and Metadata/Data Transformation" portion of a holistic DoD Acquisition Management prototype.
  • 2006 - Converted One World Information System (OWIS) to a non-profit management education and research corporation.
  • 2007 - Applied GEM as the EA approach for a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Bureau.
  • 2008 - Placed GEM into the Public Domain at http://www.one-world-is.org.
  • 2009 - Submitted Terminology Management idea: "By 2010, establish a secure and privacy-protective capability for National-Enterprise Management, Improvement, and Cross-Enterprise Interoperability, Unification, and Federation." at http://newideasforgovernment.ning.com/profile/RoyRoebuck.
  • 2009 - Submitted ideas on the Recovery.gov IT Dialog for National Terminology at http://www.thenationaldialogue.org/show_more_QA?Creator=RoyERoebuck&portal_type=qpaQuestion
  • 2009 - Submitted comments to ideas on the Recovery.gov IT Dialog at http://www.thenationaldialogue.org/show_more_QA?Creator=RoyERoebuck&portal_type=qpaAnswer.
  • 2009 - Started a discussion on NewIdeasForGovernment on Terminology, at http://newideasforgovernment.ning.com/forum/topics/terminology-management-for.
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