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CAM-I  News Program News  

Our current Overview of CAM-I Research  and CAM-I Training 
 
The 2007 Bonsack Award recipient is Charlie Stirk from Cost Vision, for his outstanding contribution to the Target Costing Interest Group. More information on this annual award to recognize distinquished contribution to the field of Cost Management  is at Columns and News.
 
The CAM-I Toolkit is now available online. These methods and tools are the result of ongoing CAM-I Research.
 
CAM-I is now a Conference Partner with  the American Strategic Management Institute (ASMI) . A  List of Conferences is at Columns and News.

Current Events
 
The CAM-I 3rd Quarter 2008 meeting is in Portland on September 7-10, 2008. The Meeting Notice is now available.
 
The 3rd Annual CAM-I/CMA Process, Performance and Cost Management Summit will be held October 22-23, 2008 in Toronto. Preliminary information is now available.

Cost Management:

The April 2008 CMS Newsletter is now available. Past newsletters are available at Resources.

The Business Research and Analysis Group (BRAG) , with CAM-I as a sponsor,  is now launching a study to review methods and practices undertaken by companies around the world to help them better understand customer, product and service cost and profitability measurement. The group invites organizations from to participate in this study by completing an on-line survey between May 31 and July31, 2008. All participants will be granted access to published results by the BRAG team following the survey. Select for more information.

The Armed Services Interest Group is now focusing on Lean Six Sigma.

An Interest group on Business Intelligence was launched at the December 2007 meeting.

Process Based Management:

The April 2008 PBM Newsletter is now available. Past newsletters are available at Resources

Current Overview of the PBM Program and work in progress.

Version 1.0 of the PBM Implementation Roadmap and the PBM Assessment Tool were completed at the June 2007 meeting. Summaries of the Roadmap are at Resources.

PBM and PEMM Comparison: A white paper comparing the PBM Roadmap and Assessment approach to Hammer's Process Enterprise and Maturity Model

The PBM Assessment was pilot tested starting in the 2nd quarter 2007. If your organization is interested, let us know. Send an email to jerry@cam-i.org

 

Recent Deliverables: (Click image for online bookstore)
Hitting the Target is a companion to CAM-I’s Target Costing published in 1997.  It focuses on implementation issues and is meant for readers who are familiar with target costing and want to take it to the next level.
Process Based Management : A Foundation for Business Excellence is the follow on work to the Road to Excellence.This book provides organizations with insights and key learnings to successfully move along the road to becoming process-based.
The Closed-Loop Model reflects a powerful new budgeting approach that speaks to many of the problems associated with traditional budgets and budgeting.

 
 

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