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CMII - A New Generation of Configuration Management
CMII is a revolutionary business model, which has replaced traditional change management strategies all over the world. It is now available in South Africa exclusively through ConfigOnline, this country’s only certified CMII provider. The CMII model is more powerful than any other initiative for improving organisational performance. It provides the ability to accommodate change and keep associated information clear, concise and valid.
In a nutshell, Configuration Management is the method whereby all information needed to create or change a product or service, is managed to ensure maximum efficiency in that process.
Traditional configuration management methodologies focus on producing a product or service, and then attending to bugs or market demands later. CMII has turned this process on its head by ensuring that requirements lead the process. With CMII, configuration management is lifted out of its engineering design orientation and given and enterprise-wide perspective. CMII eliminates the bureaucracy that stifles development and leaves other life cycle phases suffocating on corrective action. Continuous corrective action is not continuous improvement. Any organisation that implements CMII can transition out of the corrective action mode and into a continuous improvement mode.
CMII is ideal for any project - a product or a process, new development or modification, hardware or software, large or small, simple or complex. The methodology is the same.
Vince Guess re-engineered the CM process in the 1970s and began teaching the principles of CMII in 1981. He founded the Institute of Configuration Management, based in the USA. A training partner with GfKM in Germany was established in 1998. CMII and was introduced to South Africa in 2004 in terms of an exclusive arrangement with ConfigOnline. In 2005, a CMII training partner was established with Australia.
In January 2006, Vince Guess formed the CMII Research Institute with whom all training partners hold licence agreements.
CMII offers South Africans the chance to come up to speed with the very latest international business methodology, which is used by high profile organisations as NASA, Boeing, Hewlett-Packard, Delphi, Lear Corporation, the US Postal Service, Alstrom, and Lockheed Martin, amongst others.
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