DAMA - Philadelphia / Delaware Valley Chapter

Serving the greater Philadelphia area, southern New Jersey, and the State of Delaware

Program Schedule

Wednesday, March 12th, 2008 - Towers Perrin, Philadelphia

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Anne Marie Smith

Anne Marie Smith, Ph,D. is Director of Education and Principal Consultant with EWSolutions is a leading consultant in Information Management and is a frequent contributor to various IS publications. Anne Marie has over 20 years experience in information management for several corporate entities and has successfully led the development of data resource management departments within corporations and consulting organizations. Anne Marie serves on the board of directors of DAMA International. She has been an instructor of Management Information Systems (MIS) with various colleges and universities and serves on the advisory board for Northcentral University’s School of Business and Technology Management. Anne Marie has taught topics such as: data stewardship and governance, data warehousing, business requirements gathering and analysis, metadata management and metadata strategy, information systems development, and project management. Anne Marie’s areas of consulting expertise include metadata management, data stewardship and governance, information systems planning, systems analysis and design, project management, data warehouse systems assessment and development, information systems process improvement and information resource management/data resource management. Anne Marie holds the degrees Bachelor of Arts and a Master's of Business Administration in Management Information Systems from La Salle University; she earned a PhD in MIS at Northcentral University. She is a certified logical data and process modeler and holds project management certification. Anne Marie can be reached at amsmith@ewsolutions.com

Many organizations have begun to realize that the data and information they create every day is a valuable enterprise asset. It is difficult to imagine any enterprise achieving its goals without pertinent information. Those with accessible and higher quality information will make more informed and more effective business decisions. This is as true for all organizations since all enterprises need quality information to guide their decision-making and to provide optimum service to their customers. For organizations whose primary asset is information, this need is even more critical.

Enterprise Information Management (EIM) is the set of business processes, disciplines and practices used to manage the information created from an organization’s data as an enterprise asset. EIM functions ensure that high quality information is available, protected, controlled and effectively leveraged to meet the knowledge needs of all enterprise stakeholders, in support of the enterprise mission.

Full organizational commitment to managing information as an enterprise asset requires the establishment of enterprise policies and the development of a support environment shared by the organization. That is what an EIM program provides.

This session will offer a framework for creating and implementing an enterprise information management program. The attendee will gain an understanding of the importance of enterprise information management, the various types of information management components and discuss some of the approaches to successfully approach this initiative.

Patricia Cupoli, CCP, CDMP, CBIP, is the ICCP Board President, the Project Manager for DAMA’s exam development, an author of two DMBOK chapters, and a member of the DAMA DMBOK Editorial Board. She is an Information Architect for JPMorgan Chase Card Services. Pat has over twenty years of IT professional experience, concentrating in the areas of Data Management, Data Warehousing, Metadata Solutions and Repositories, Enterprise Modeling (business process and data) for Business Re-engineering, Project Management, IT Strategic Planning, IT Course Development and Training, and Librarianship / Information Science. She has presented at many DAMA and TDWI conferences, and has published professionally. Pat is a past president of DAMA International, DAMA Chicago, and DAMA Philadelphia / Delaware Valley. She is the recipient of the 2006 DAMA International Professional Award and the 2006 ICCA Professional Consultant Award.

The presentation will include the DAMA International CDMP Program Overview, Reasons for Certifying, What a Chapter Can Do, and a discussion of the exam's outlines and questions.