ACDM CALL FOR PAPERS

"Building Centers of Excellence" 

The Association for Configuration and Data Management (ACDM) invites Configuration and Data Management professional practitioners, academics, managers, and vendors to submit Abstracts describing a presentation topic for the 17th Annual ACDM Symposium – to be held in Destin, Florida at the Sandestin Hilton, from March 12 – 14, 2012

The theme of this year’s conference is focused on Building Centers of Excellence (COE), the impact and challenges to both CM and DM, and the pitfalls that a CDM Practitioner might face. This theme focuses on one of the key topical highlights from last year’s conference, recognizing the important benefits a successful COE structure can provide an organization’s drive towards operational excellence. The true enterprise nature of CM and DM, position these key business process areas to realize the benefits of increased innovation and improved efficiencies, a COE can provide.

Focus 1 - CMDM Changing with the Times

The industry today is faced with many challenges and those challenges have led to many changes in the CDM of organizations. CDM Practitioners must cope with changing times and a renewed focus on work responsibilities. The organization may not change entirely, but the organizational processes are affected. This includes process efficiencies, productivity, and budget constraints. These are the times when CDM must focus on innovation and excellence. The return on investment in DM has to be clear – the message is that without CDM, the organization cannot succeed.

Focus 2 - Processes

What processes have changed that impacted the CMDM Practitioner? Are you measuring your changes? What is the overall affect of the changes to your organization? Are you leveraging the collective experience and expertise of your CMDM stakeholders to facilitate knowledge sharing and improving process efficiencies?

Although the theme for this conference is on Building Centers of Excellence, papers of a general interest to the CDM discipline and its practitioners will also be strongly considered.

  • Processes, Tools & Technologies,
  • Case Studies & Examples,
  • Emerging Trends.

Submission Guidelines

Authors should submit an electronic copy which includes the following:

  • A title page which includes:
    • The presentation title
    • Author’s full name and organization
    • Author’s email address and telephone number
    • Author’s biography (100 - 250 words)
    • DEADLINE: 1 OCTOBER 2011
  • An abstract of the proposed topic which includes:
    • The CM or DM topic, issue, or problem
    • The business performance improvement
    • Implications for use by other CM and DM practitioners
    • Brief outline of the presentations’ content.
    • DEADLINE: 15 OCTOBER 2011
  • Final Paper (Presentation Ready)
    • Format – Microsoft PowerPoint or .pdf
    • Releasable to ACDM for presentation and publication in Conference Proceedings
    • DEADLINE: JANUARY 15, 2012

Email Point of Contact: ACDM Vice President of Services – joe.roman @lmco.com