Strategy for Implementing an Enterprise Systems Engineering Capability

Systems are becoming increasingly interdependent and interconnected and the enterprise charged with developing such systems faces a challenge in ensuring that these dependencies are known and well understand such that the enterprise's portfolio of programs, projects and systems is balanced and robust. Enterprise Systems Engineering (ESE) is an emerging discipline that is designed to handle the challenges of helping to manage this portfolio and ensuring that the various mission and business systems are developed in a coherent, efficient and effective manner. This paper describes the desired features of an ESE capability that can help the enterprise manage its portfolio as well as addressing the various non‐system solutions that must be brought to bear. The strategy for realizing this ESE capability is described in terms of the goals and objectives that the enterprise should be expected to achieve.