AIIM's New ECM Training Course Utilizes Innovative MIKE2.0 Open Source Methodology

AIIM recently announced it is using the MIKE2.0 open source implementation methodology as the core organizing principle for its nw and improved ECM training program. The MIKE2.0 methodology will be used in both the Specialist and Master tracks as a guide for defining and deploying ECM systes. MIKE2.0 (Method for an Integrated Knowledge Environment) is an Open Source methodology for Enterprise Information Management that provides a framework for Information Development.

According to Bob Larrivee, AIIM Director, "MIKE2.0 is a collaborative effort to help organizations focus on the data and information needs of the business. Many of the business problems faced by organizations today around compliance, lack of customer insight, poor change management, and cost are the result of failing to focus on these core data and information needs. Using MIKE2.0 as the framework to construct our new ECM training program will help organizations deploy content technologies ore efficiently and effectively. The five phases to the MIK2.0 methodology are:
Phase 1 - Business Assessment and Strategy Definition Blueprint
Phase 2 - Technology Assessment and Selection Blueprint
Phase 3 - Information Management Roadmap and Foundation Activities
Phase 4 - Design Incrementally
Phase 5 - Incremental Development, Testing, Deployment and Improvement

Larrivee continues, "The iterative approach of MIKE2.0 that divides the development and rollout of an entire system into implementation cycles—defining and prioritizing portions of the system for construction and deployment—ensures higher levels of success. Each iterative step has feedback mechanisms to evaluate results and initiate improvements on future implementation cycles, ensuring the project remains focused and delivers the expected results. Successful implementations and user acceptance is what we seek in ECM and what MIKE2.0 delivers."

For more information about AIIM's Certificate programs on enterprise content management (ECM), electronic records management (ERM), business process management (BPM), information organization and access (IOA), email management (EMM), and enterprise 2.0 (E20) visit www.aiim.org/training. -

For more information about the MIKE2.0 open methodology, visit http://mike2.openmethodology.org/wiki/MIKE2.0_Methodology

About AIIM
AIIM is the community that provides education, research, and best practices to help organizations find, control, and optimize their information. For over 60 years, AIIM has been the leading non-profit organization focused on helping users to understand the challenges associated with managing documents, content, records, and business processes. Today, AIIM is international in scope, independent, implementation-focused, and, as the representative of the entire enterprise content management (ECM) industry - including users, suppliers, and the channel - acts as the industry's intermediary.

AIIM was founded in 1943 as the National Microfilm Association and later became the Association for Information and Image Managment. AIIM is also known as the Enterprise Content Management Association. For more information, visit: www.aiim.org.

SOURCE: AIIM