Corporate Information Management (CIM) within DoD

The purpose of this briefing is to provide an overview of the Corporate Information Management (CIM) program, which is one of the Department's key programs for reinventing its products and services for the warfighter. This briefing discusses how and why CIM was created; its major elements, its key events and its accomplishments. It ends with a short discussion of the changing mindset and management issues and challenges that must be dealt with in order to make this program an even larger success. Some of the topics covered are:

• Major CIM-related accomplishments
• History of CIM
• What is CIM?
• CIM and White House goals
• Strategic goals of CIM
• Management structure of CIM
• Assignment of responsibilities
• Business Process Reengineering - Conceptual Framework
• Business Process Reengineering - Target and Accomplishments
• Business Process Reengineering - DoD-wide support
• Business Process Reengineering - DoD toolset
• Data standards
• Defense Information Infrastructure
• Defense Megacenters
• Multi-technology Automated Reader Card (MARC)
• Enterprise Integration

June 96  Emmett Paige  Initial release to the PAL

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