Current CAM-I Working Groups and Projects
- Environmental Sustainability Interest Group – The CAM-I Environmental Sustainability Interest Group aims to give value to all participants by providing practical support on establishing an integrated strategy toward environmental sustainability management. Through the use of CAM-I’s body of knowledge surrounding cost, performance, and process management the interest group seeks to facilitate the understanding and measurement of environmental sustainability impacts within organizations. In order to initiate the project the interest group will focus on the interplay between greenhouse gas emissions, cost and profitability, and performance. Chair: Anthony Pember, Phone 757-353-6052 or
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- Target Costing Best Practices– Provide 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. This will cover leading practices for accessing manufacturing cost data and recommendations for the future on integrated costing systems across the supply chain. The 2nd paper addresses how to prepare for commodity forecasts fluctuations in the target costing process. Chair: Tami Capperauld, Phone 206 332-2305 or
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- Health Care – This group is working to provide practical solutions for improving U.S. healthcare for healthcare stakeholders by customizing CAM-I’s industry-leading process improvement and performance management techniques to address today’s healthcare needs – improving healthcare quality, reducing cost, and enhancing availability. One key effort will be to use these world-class methods and tools to help healthcare providers more effectively address the new public-private value chain. Chair: Clifton Williams, Phone 703-637-2889 or
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- Process Based Management– This group is developing the next generation process and enterprise maturity model assessment that advances contributions of previous models in the following ways: 1) addresses multi-dimensions of organizational performance in the language of business vs. process; 2) uses direct input (self-administered) from individuals in the organization vs. facilitation of outside experts to administer; and 3) is tested within CAM-I organizations vs. theory-based. Target audiences for the assessment: 1) executives, mid-level managers, and front line employees. Assessment Results include a visual profile along multiple dimensions. Possible uses include jumpstarting muti-year change initiatives involving process improvement, measuring organizational improvement progress over time, or as a unifying framework for identifying opportunity areas for improvement using a “systems thinking view of the enterprise. Chair: Terry Cain, Phone 480-643-7499 or
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- Lean Enterprise – The planned deliverable “Pragmatic Lean - A Practical Guide to Lean Adoption” will cover topics such as: Lean Principles and Lean Thinking; Value, Value Streams, Flow, Pull, and Perfection; Performance Management in a Lean Enterprise; Adopting Lean; and a number of topics of interest like Standard Costing; Intangibles and R&D; Lean Maturity Stages; Overhead and support functions; Shared Services and Monuments; Allocations and Cost Assignments; Products and Product Groups; Lean in the context of Lean Six Sigma; and Lean in the context of CAM-I SIG’s for Target Costing, Process Based Management, Performance Management, and Planning and Budgeting. Chair: Carsten Hilker, Phone 650.283.4286 or This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
- Risk Management – The Risk Management Interest Group is researching risk management in both public and private sectors as a key element of a truly integrated performance management system. It has completed short articles on risk management in 07 and 08. A comprehensive risk management guideline will be completed in 3Q '10.Chair: Frank Wood, Phone 202-372-4564 or
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- Performance Management – The group has developed a practical framework that will enable any organization to assess their level of performance management maturity. In addition, the framework recommends specific techniques to assist in areas of performance management that require improvement taking into consideration the organization’s capability of effecting change. Chair: Ward Melhuish, Phone (703) 837-4537
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- Business Intelligence - This group will be developing a metrics reference model that will provide organizations a way to measure, analyze and act in an integrated way toward solving common business issues. It will also be looking at mechanisms to integrate the flow of information and decision-making capabilities of cost, performance and process management within organizations. Chair: Shobhik Chaudhuri, Phone (703) 637-2728 or This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
- Transparency - The subject of the interest group: Defining and measuring organizational transparency for internal and external stakeholders. In September 2009, CAM-I convened a roundtable of distinguished thought leaders to help guide this important effort. The group strongly reinforced the need for research in this area. With their input, CAM-I has an enormous foundation on which to build a body of knowledge on the issue of Transparency that will hopefully answer important questions: What is it? When do we know we have it? What benefits should we expect from it? What are the dangers / unintended consequences of transparency and how do we mitigate them? Chair: Robert Shea, Phone 703-637-2780 or
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- Agile Analytics Exploratory Group - Performance analytics are critical strategic and tactical tools and methodologies all organizations need to manage and improve performance. There are two primary branches of performance analytics, Enterprise and Agile. Agile Analytics provide rapid results, are flexible, easy to use and have a low cost. Current analytic trends are top heavy with enterprise-oriented approaches; however there is minimal collaborative support for agile approaches. We feel there is a need among member companies for analytics that provide fast response to specific business questions. The purpose of the Agile Analytics SIG is to define the Agile Analytics market and identify how member companies can use Agile Analytics to improve their strategic decision making. Chair: Mike Mueller; phone 503-740-3755 or This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .
