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Contact:
Stephanie Covert
OMG
+1-843-737 0637
pr@omg.org
OMG Task Force Chair Named to
Process Knowledge Initiative Technical Team
OMG is a Steward for new Process Knowledge
Initiative along with
BPTrends, IIBA, Queensland University of Technology and
Kemsley Design
Needham, MA, USA - December 15, 2010 - OMG® today
announces that longtime OMG participant and Chair of OMG's
Business Modeling and Integration (BMI) Task Force, Fred
Cummins has been named as an expert participant on the
Process Knowledge Initiative Technical Team.
The Process Knowledge Initiative is a collaborative
industry and academic endeavor with the sole purpose of
creating an open source body of knowledge on process
management. The resultant Process Knowledge BoK (PKBoK) will
be the go-to information source for process management
professionals, academics and industry technology and service
providers. More information may be found online at
http://www.processknowledge.org.
In addition to chairing the BMI Task Force, Fred is also
the Business Systems Architect, Agile Enterprise Design, and
a Former HP Fellow. Fred joins other industry luminaries
just announced as participants on the
Technical
Integration Team. Other groups announced include the
Methodology Advisory Board and Technical Advisory Board. The
Technical Integration Team is responsible for establishing
the PKBoK blueprint (scope, knowledge areas, ontology,
content templates), recruiting working group leaders, and
coordinating content development, publication and review.
"Business-focused practitioners need a consistent
body of knowledge as the practice becomes more widely
adopted. While there's plenty of concentrated knowledge on
the technical end of BPM, it's time to do the same for the
business focus," said Fred Cummins, Business Systems
Architect, Agile Enterprise Design and Chair, OMG's BMI Task
Force. "I look forward to contributing, with my
colleagues on the Technical Integration Team, to the
advancement of the field.
"OMG's suite of BPM technology standards including
BPMN™, BPMM, and BMM provide business process
practitioners with the tools they need to achieve real-world
insights into the business. OMG's Business Ecology®
Initiative (BEI) is a powerful community of business-focused
BPM practitioners and companies that share best practices
and fresh ideas to optimize their processes to support
innovation," said Richard Mark Soley, Ph.D., chairman
& CEO, OMG. "Our focus on business optimization
through standards and through our advocacy groups, and our
reason to partner in the Process Knowledge Initiative is to
keep it business-focused and reality-based."
The Process Knowledge Initiative notes that there are
open Technical Advisory Board positions and are seeking
Lean/Six Sigma experts. To nominate a Lean/Six Sigma
Technical Expert, please contact Brenda Michelson at pkbok@elementallinks.com.
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