AIIM Utilises MIKE2.0 Open Source Methodology

AIIM is using the MIKE2.0 open source implementation methodology as the core organising principle for its new and improved ECM training programme. The MIKE2.0 methodology will be used in both the Specialist and Master tracks as a guide for defining and deploying ECM systems. 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, director, AIIM, “MIKE2.0 is a collaborative effort to help organisations focus on the data and information needs of the business. Many of the business problems faced by organisations 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 programme will help organisations deploy content technologies more 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 prioritising 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 focussed and delivers the expected results. Successful implementations and user acceptance is what we seek in ECM and what MIKE2.0 delivers.”

AIIM was founded in 1943 as the National Microfilm Association and later became the Association for Information and Image Management. AIIM is also known as the Enterprise Content Management Association.