What does 6D do?

Starting at the bottom left of the diagram:

  • we take signals from any source and feed them into ‘data fusion’
  • we turn the raw signals into business-meaningful events and take in other streams of business data to add context
  • following a complex event processing pattern, rules of association, correlation & hierarchy are applied
  • as appropriate, the system will autonomously respond and trigger corrective actions, operational instructions, and execute the appropriate transactions
  • when human intervention is required, opportunities, threats & notifications are delivered to a dashboard and/or app providing decision-makers with actionable insights

Similar to ‘data to wisdom’ pyramid, we transform data to information to awareness. This is the foundation of situational awareness, and actionable insights.

6D uses six dimensions of situational awareness – what when where who why how (where the name ‘6D’ comes from) to provide decision teams with information (instructions, insights etc.) to ‘mobilize & choreograph processes and workflows.

  • rules for dynamic response, re-planning and dispatch are applied
  • methods, tasks and plans are generated
  • finally, data is fed back to people and apps and devices to take action based upon the generated intelligence.

The 6D ecosystem is a hybrid of both highly distributed and centralized  control. It also supports multiple concurrent value streams and thus lends itself to multi-party supply and distribution chains, for example.