This book describes a process framework for business information management, encompassing the best way to manage and execute business information management in day-to-day practice, and explaining how BiSL® can help.

Effective management of business information is critically important for modern organizations. The Business Information Systems Library (BiSL) is a generic framework and a domain standard which is consistent with ITIL and ASL. As outsourcing of ICT activities increases, it is ess...

The Open Group IT4IT™ Reference Architecture, Version 2.1, an Open Group Standard, provides a vendor-neutral, technology-agnostic, and industry-agnostic reference architecture for managing the business of IT.

The Open Group IT4IT Reference Architecture standard comprises a reference architecture and a value chain-based operating model.

The IT Value Chain has four value streams supported by a reference architecture to drive efficiency and agility. The four value streams are:

* Strategy to P...

This book is about the how of project management and about how you as a project manager can use a proactive attitude to stay in control, even during difficult situations. It shows you how to become an influencer of the path to the end result, of your environment, of your team and of your effectiveness.

Today’s project managers have to meet high expectations. Challenging goals, a strong focus on cost management and lead times, serving the interests of different stakeholders and many dependen...

You can find many different books on Lean Manufacturing or Six Sigma. This book is different because it addresses the relation between Lean and other improvement methods that have been proven to be successful over the past decades, such as TQM, Kaizen, TPM and Six Sigma. These methods, tools and techniques have been united in the ‘Continuous Improvement Maturity Model’ (CIMMTM).

CIMM is an open standard and is maintained by the ‘Lean Six Sigma Academy’ (LSSA).

The framework describe...

The Business Object Modelling (BOM) workbook treats the approach used to create and manage the BIAN Reference Data Architecture for the Financial Industry. It treats the added value this model can provide for the Financial Industry and its service providers.

However, the applicability of the approach used by BIAN to create and manage its Reference Data Architecture, and the added value of such “enterprise data model”, is not limited to BIAN and the financial industry. The workbook treats...

Besides the courseware publication (ISBN: 9789401807999), you are advised to obtain the DAMA DMBOK publication (ISBN: 9781634622349). Optionally, you can use the publication Data management: a gentle introduction (ISBN: 9789401805506) as inspiration for examples and quotes about the field of data management.

This material is intended to prepare participants for the CDMP exam by DAMA International. The courseware can only be ordered by partners and is based on the current version of the DAMA ...

IPMA ICB Reference Guide for PMO. This standard is dedicated to the structures that support projects, programmes and portfolios to run them effectively and efficiently. These structures are called PMO – Project Management Offices. A PMO is defined as an organisational unit responsible for the administrative and specialists’ support of the responsible management in their management of a (set of) project(s), programme(s) or portfolio(s). PMO plays a very important role in designing, perform...