CAM-I

Over Three Decades of Industry-led Collaborative Research

CAM-I (Consortium of Advanced Management, International) is an International consortium of industry, government, and research organizations working together to develop the mechanisms that management needs to more effectively address critical business issues. As a result, CAM-I is recognized worldwide as the leading forum for realizing practical, proven advanced management solutions, methods and tools that are changing the way organizations manage their business. Example focus areas include Process Management, Risk Management, Target Costing, Performance Management and Change Management.
Our members, subject matter experts, academia and thought leaders, together with major engineering, accounting and management organizations, meet formally every quarter to work on Special Interest Group projects related to cost, process and performance management for the benefit of our member companies.
Currently CAM-I has 34 members.

CAM-I Participation

Any organization can attend as CAM-I guest, one quarterly meeting.

There is Annual Participation Fee for member Companies.
The participation includes access to all the past and present work plus attendance to CAM-I collaborative meetings.

Sponsor Companies can send up to 12 people to participate in Programs and Special Interest Groups at our qtly formal meetings.

A company also gets two seats on the management committee for CAM-I. This is an advisory body to CAM-I on direction setting.

The sponsor company can also initiate a new project or a sub project.

CAM-I Intellectual Property Access

• The Member Portal - This is a repository of current work, work in progress, completed deliverables in electronic format, and the member directory.
• Wide networking with expertise available form other companies, leading universities, and subject matter experts
• Participation in Special Interest Group deliverables.
• Any member can work with others on meetings, site visits, benchmarking and sharing ideas via our portal meetings.

CAM-I Quarterly Meetings

The quarterly meetings are Monday through Wednesday in the second week of March, June, September and December. The attendance is normally about 100 people.
The format is –

Day 1 - Interest groups work on leading edge projects

Day 2 - Morning is devoted to General Session where we invite outside speakers to present on topics related to cost, process and performance management. During the afternoon the Interest Groups reconvene.
Day 3 - Interest groups work on leading edge projects until we adjourn at noon

New Initiatives - Sustainment and Green, Transparency, Health Care.

Deliverables in Progress

Target Costing – Papers in work:

• Cost Information Standards to Integrate Functional Stovepipes and Supply Chain.
• Technical bulletin “Involving the Extended Value Chain in a Target Costing/Life Cycle Cost Process Model.”
• Target Costing and Forecasting Commodities

Risk Management - A model for an approach to integrating risk, cost, and performance management; an implementation methodology for that approach.

A Metrics Reference Model (MRM) consisting of categorized common metrics that can be used by any organization as a starting point in BI/Performance Management efforts.

Maturity Framework of Performance Management

List of significant deliverables –

• Implementing Process Based Management in Organizations – July 2009
• Lean Six Sigma Survey Results – March 2009
• Chasing Change: Building Organizational Capacity in a Turbulent Environment – December 2008
• Performance Management Survey (CAM-I/CMA conference 2008)
• Management Control Systems as a Tool for Planned Organizational Change: An Assessment of Two Organizations – 2007
• Calculating & Reporting Customer Profitability – 2006
• Manufacturing Benchmarking Survey: Observations & Findings – 2006
• Performance & Cost Management – A report by the Armed Services Interest Group – 2005
• Clopay & RCA – Resource Consumption Accounting Case Study – 2005

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