a.?CAM-I is a not-for-profit, cooperative membership organization established in 1972 to support research and development in areas of strategic importance to industries.  

CAM-I is global, collaborative research organization. It is driven by industry, and focused on advancing management and technical practices.

CAM-I's international sponsors represent a broad range of industries and government agencies. These organizations come together in thepre-competitive, cooperative research environment of CAM-I to define, understand and solve critical business issues. As a group, CAM-I sponsors work to create implementable solutions that resolve common problems.

The benefits of CAM-I participation go far beyond the investigation of current management issues. CAM-I has a solid base in industry, academia, and government with 30 years of experience in providing implementable solutions to real-world management problems. CAM-I has established new and effective strategies for resolving emerging issues in Cost, Resource, Performance, and Process Based Management.

CAM-I is an accredited standards-making organization with international scope and presence.

CAM-I has multiple complementary focus areas:  They include CostManagement, Performance Management, and Process Based Management.  The CMS focus area is the authoritative international body on organizational cost and resource management practices. The purpose of  Cost Management Systems Working Group is to advance organizational cost and resource management practices internationally through collaborative development, standardization and dissemination.  The PM focus area is examining the synthesis of the multiple methodologies and techniques that affect and achieve Performance Management.  The PBM focus area is developing and distributing ways to understand and implement managing organizations with a "Process Lense" that more closely aligns the resources of an organization with its Value Streams.

CAM-I's “Collaborative Model” produces value for its members through:

1?Participative Research - by working together the participants understand the journey - the best practice path.

2?Targeted Intellectual Efforts - each program targets results and produces implementable deliverables by our sponsors.

Human Networks - Develop and continue to share, challenge ideas, and learn long beyond the end date of the specific result.