Abstract: This invention relates to activities pertaining to life-cycle-stages of enterprise-processes, whether implemented within the boundary of a single organization or spanning several organizational boundaries. In particular it relates to (1) establishing a community of participant-systems and a schema to create collaborative capabilities (2) establishing a combination of one or more methods and one or more technologies to impart seamlessness to the end-to-end flow of information and content related to the life-cycle stages of the process, (3) establishing end-to-end visibility to key parameters and (4) establishing ways to control the course and speed of activities associated with one or more life-cycle stages.