CAM-I's Background & History
CAM-I is a not-for-profit, cooperative membership organization established in 1972 to support research and development in areas of strategic importance to industries.
CAM-I is global, collaborative research organization. It is driven by industry, and focused on advancing management and technical practices.
CAM-I's international sponsors represent a broad range of industries and government agencies. These organizations come together in the pre-competitive, cooperative research environment of CAM-I to define, understand and solve critical business issues. As a group, CAM-I sponsors work to create implementable solutions that resolve common problems.
The benefits of CAM-I participation go far beyond the investigation of current management issues. CAM-I has a solid base in industry, academia, and government with 40 years of experience in providing implementable solutions to real-world management problems. CAM-I has established new and effective strategies for resolving emerging issues in Cost, Resource, Performance, and Process Based Management.
CAM-I is an accredited standards-making organization with international scope and presence.
CAM-I has multiple complementary focus areas: They include Cost Management, Performance Management, and Process Based Management. The CMS focus area is the authoritative international body on organizational cost and resource management practices. The purpose of Cost Management Systems Working Group is to advance organizational cost and resource management practices internationally through collaborative development, standardization and dissemination. The PM focus area is examining the synthesis of the multiple methodologies and techniques that affect and achieve Performance Management. The PBM focus area is developing and distributing ways to understand and implement managing organizations with a "Process Lense" that more closely aligns the resources of an organization with its Value Streams.
...and others!
1) Armed Services Cost & Performance Management (ASCPM) – Published report on essence of performance and cost management principles and concepts in the five armed services in 2005. Currently working on best practices to be published in December 2007. Chair: Bob Misch Phone 703-637-3042 or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
2) Business Intelligence (BI) – This working group will be developing a roadmap to assist organizations improve and mature their Business Intelligence efforts. Chair: Shobik Chaudhuri Phone 703-637-2728 or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
3) Operational Data & Cost Measurement Assessments (ODCMA) – Provide assessment criteria for operational data required for relevant operational planning & control & good cost measurement. Align with Baldridge assessment approach. Provide assessment criteria for cost measurement that is integrated with and driven from the operational data assessment. Chair: George Millush Phone 248-637-8665 or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
4) Performance Management (PM) – Finalizing a practical performance management framework maturity model that will enable the assessment of public, non-profit and private sector organizations level of maturity and apply elements of a performance management. Chair: Derek Sandison Phone 905-855-0765 or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
5) Planning & Budgeting (PB)– This group is looking at a much bigger picture that will include private and public sectors. They are examining the current and future trends for budgeting and planning which will include Beyond Budgeting. One of their other objectives is to develop a “WIKI”. Chair: Alan Stratton Phone 503-590-3911 or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
6) Process Based Management (PBM) – As the primary project, working group will produce a roadmap to include implementation guidelines, implementation strategy based on an organization’s entry point, and an integration approach to link existing initiatives . This working group is also enhancing the existing PBM assessment model to include Implementation Roadmap findings, and will be included in the Integrated Assessment System software. Facilitators: Kirk Gould Phone 602-250-4144 or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and Christine Dicken Phone 602-250-2494 or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Advisors: Dennis Daly at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and Raghu Santanam at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .
7) Risk
Management (RM) - Working on basic taxonomy of risk management
terms and phrases with a follow-on project of developing a practical applications
and implementation guide. Chair: Frank Wood Phone 202-372-4564
or
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
8) Target
Costing (TC) – Providing a vehicle for sharing target costing best
practices. The current focus is to develop a series of “how to” technical
bulletins on extending target costing to the supply side. The first is
“Involving the Extended Value Chain in a Target Costing/Life Cycle Cost
Process Model”. The second will cover leading practices for accessing
manufacturing cost data and recommendations for the future on integrated costing
systems across the supply chain. Chair: Tami Capperauld Phone
425-234-4458 or
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
For more information on these Working Groups, click here
