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The LL tool supports the SIMS Lesson Learnt process in the following way:
• gives an instant access to the most recent information concerning planned
missions, missions in progress and executed missions (e.g. information
about the incidents, socio-cultural events, soldiers personal remarks, mission
plans, debriefing notes). This access can be accomplished by the use
of common information storage, database;
• enables gathering of observations based on the information acquired from
the common database. Centralization of the lesson learnt related data allows
sharing the most recent knowledge and improves its management. By
providing a set of predefined data filters, SIMS LL tool enables effective
gathering and processing of only relevant data;
• enables tracing the causes and effects of observations, lessons identified,
lessons learnt and recommendations. Providing an easy way to indicate
a cause (e.g. particular incidents) of the effect (e.g. observation) through
the use of various tools and methods, supports the stage of analysis
of the SIMS LL process. SIMS LL tool is capable of using different analysis
methods available through additional plug-ins (additional LL related data
visualisation methods);
• enhances the process of recommending changes in regulations, the system
of training and doctrines through the cause-effect analysis of observations
and lessons identified. The SIMS LL tool enables creating correlations
between lesson learnt related data;
• enhances the process of dissemination of the lesson learnt related data
among mission planning cells, unit commanders and soldiers through
the centralization and flexible access to the data;
• enables organising of the lesson learnt related data in hierarchical structures
of dependencies;
• provides a structured way of managing the lesson learnt data according to
the SIMS LL process. The SIMS LL tool will guide a user through the process
of creating such data, taking care of their completeness and consistency.
• enables formalisation of recording lesson learnt related data. The SIMS
LL tool provides templates for observations, lessons identified, lessons
learnt and recommendations documents.
• enables generating of formal electronic LL reports (in common file formats
e.g. doc, rtf, pdf).
The SIMS LL tool can support the analysis stage of the SIMS LL process.
In order to provide such a support, SIMS LL tool uses interactive methods of visual
representation of the LL related data to enhance the LLO cognition. The analysis
of the LL related data in terms of the SIMS LL tool consists mainly in creating correlations
between particular data entities (e.g. events) and drawing conclusions
from such correlations. As a result of such analysis the LL related data entity with
relevant correlations is created (e.g. an observation with correlated events). An ex-