The work-flow templates show the proper routing of documents and tasks to the proper offices for each type of process. Empowered team orientation. This results in a largely matrixed organization, grouped by IPTs, in which each team is responsible for a product and given sufficient decision-making authority. In the old system, documents were being circulated among functional departments. Documents are now handled by cross-functional project teams, and the JPO business processes are well defined and easier to manage.
Users quickly communicate issues throughout the group via the infrastructure.
The organizational culture has become much more receptive to change, and information technology provides the necessary channels to disseminate information and facilitate change. Stable configuration management. The heart of the GEMS system is the reference library, which holds most of the GPS program data. Authorized individuals have fast access to the latest version of a document, including updates, from one location. The data is archived for safe, long-term storage.