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Link-Cycle™
is also a tool to manage the complexity of systems development. This
results in significantly faster response times for implementing solutions,
with the flexibility to adjust to changing business priorities and
financial realities. Thus Link-Cycle™ helps an organization
to respond quickly and precisely to its customers, to changes in its
industry, to its regulatory and economic movements, and to the strategic
vision and direction of its leaders.
The principles of Link-Cycle™ apply equally
to the public and private sectors; to large or small organizations.
A common theme is operational integration and mutual trust within
and among functional areas. World-class information systems result
when these principles are extended beyond the walls of the enterprise
to members of the virtual enterprise - customers, suppliers, cooperative
alliances, and government - on an international scale.
Link-Cycle™ consists of five phases which
respond to an organization's strategic mission: strategic integration
planning (SIP), rapid development (RD), business process integration
(BPI), Technology Acquisition (TA), and systems operation and support
(SOS). The adjacent diagram provides an overview of each phase of
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