General
Consulting services should be purchased based on an expectation that one of the outcomes of the service is a termination of any further need for that service from an external source. The owner, while a manager in industry, found it disappointing that the work of a consultant never seemed to terminate. JOG System Engineering applies a closed loop consulting technique that encourages identification of areas needing improvement (personnel knowledge and skills, process documentation, and availability of document templates and data item descriptions) coupled with closure on an effective corrective action plan that may involve development, improvement, adoption of a standard practice, selection of effective system engineering tools, and/or training of personnel.
The enterprise should thereafter be essentially self sufficient in the specific related system engineering area(s) as a result of successful completion of the action plan. The long term training and education aspects of the action plan may entail continuing in-house training by company personnel, possibly based on materials included in JOG System Engineering courses, or through a connection established with a local educational institution.
JOG System Engineering maintains that a company should embrace a single process definition defined in continually improved written practices. Several of the courses listed in this catalog tell how to do this for system engineering and provide insights into extending this capability into seamless program planning techniques for system engineering and other disciplines as well. For example, the Universal Architecture Description Framework (UADF) course offers three UADF each of which is a comprehensive modeling approach effective no matter how you decide to implement the system in some combination of hardware, software, and people doing things. If an enterprise selects one of these and applies it on every program it is inevitable that, combined with good management, the workforce will become progressively more successful in improving through repetition.
The figure below illustrates the enterprise continuous process improvement model employed by JOG System Engineering. A collection of resources owned by the functional departments is applied on each program and an assessment of the performance on a program ideally would reveal success but most often some error will be observed that could result in better performance. It is necessary to determine in what way the enterprise could improve its resource base or the implementation of it on programs to achieve improved performance, to accomplish that corrective action, and verify improved performance on subsequent programs.
