Inter enterprise CIM-a mechanism for graduate education

The successful harnessing of information technology in the pan national manufacturing environment demands a new response in the provisioning of the key integrated business resource-personnel. The CIM Institute has defined and built a teaching and research environment which focuses attention on the business process including the increasingly important semi-externalized business processes. Projects and research are undertaken which study the complexity of information management in supply chains. Networking with other universities and companies is establishing an environment close to the leading edge of industrial need. The paper presented describes the rationale for the current work of the CIM Institute and its direction in delivering both people and process for inter enterprise CIM development. © 1991.