CMO Council™

The Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) Council is a private organization dedicated to high-level knowledge exchange, thought leadership, and personal relationship building among senior marketing decision-makers in the global technology industry.

Over 2,500 technology companies are currently represented on the CMO Council accounting for over $500 billion in aggregated annual revenue. These include top decision makers controlling more than $50 billion in global marketing expenditures for many of the world’s foremost computer systems, software, networking, communications, consumer electronics, component, distribution, and consulting brands. Leading CMO Council underwriters and content partners have include BusinessWeek, The Economist, USA TODAY, CMP Media, IDG, Crain’s, VNU, TechTarget, eMarketer, Yahoo!, Cognos, Google, WebTrends, Biz360, Connectus, Factiva, Akamai, KnowledgeStorm, AT&T, Symantec, and others.

More information is available at: www.CMOCouncil.org.

BPM Forum™

The Business Performance Management (BPM) Forum is dedicated to advancing performance accountability, process improvement, operational visibility and compliance in global organizations. It provides support to thousands of senior executives and practitioners representing enterprises with more than $500 billion in combined annual revenues.

The BPM Forum’s C-level members engage in research, thought leadership, and knowledge exchange programs around a variety of strategic issues and challenges. Forum programs have been underwritten by: IBM Business Consulting, Santeon, AT Kearney, Avaya, Aztec, Borland, Hyperion, and others.

More information is available at: www.BPMForum.org.

CSR™

The Competitive Strategy Roundtable is a special interest group created by the BPM (Business Performance Management) Forum™ that focuses on researching and improving processes and methodologies for reducing competitive risk and enhancing competitive performance within the global enterprise. The Roundtable’s research and programs cover such issues as talent management, intellectual property development and protection, financial capital creation, operational efficiency, and strategic planning.

More information is available at: http://www.bpmforum.org/csr/.

DRI™

Given the velocity of businesses today, the ability to make consistently effective decisions is one of the most vital, yet least understood business processes that impacts performance. Under the aegis of the BPM Forum's DecisionROI Institute and with the collaboration of Cognos, this program focuses on executive decision making -- the initiative is exploring the economics and dynamics of good, bad or deferred decision-making and their impact on the performance, outcome and momentum of business.

More information is available at: http://bpmforum.org/DecisionROI/index.htm

GREEN™

The Global Renewable Energy and Environmental Network (GREEN) is an affinity group of corporate, non-profit, academic and government professionals, who are involved and interested in a wide range of clean energy and sustainability topics. We endeavor to deliver innovative resources, reports and events that advance knowledge and further reflection in a number of different areas, including renewable energy, biofuels, waste management, green building, pollution prevention, smart transportation, sustainable agriculture, environmental education and advocacy. The organization’s partners and members bring considerable industry and technical knowledge to the undertaking as the channels of communication always remain open.

More information is available at: www.bpmforum.org/green.

FAME™

The Forum to Advance the Mobile Experience (FAME) is a member advocacy group and strategic authority leadership initiative to accelerate marketing programs and research around enhancing the wireless user experience. FAME promotes the adoption of wireless applications in the best interests of industry players, bringing together influential senior marketing leaders from top mobile technology companies in the pursuit of innovations and best practices tailored towards the advancement of end user wireless applications. Current advisory board members include: ARM, Autodesk, Alcatel, Gemplus, Google, Intel, Lucent, Nokia, Nortel, Palm, QUALCOMM, Sybase, Symbian, Virgin Mobile, Vonage, Yahoo!, and others.

More information is available at: www.fameforusers.org.

SECO™

The Software Economics Council (SECO) is an independent organization that serves as a forum for constituents to learn from and contribute to better enterprise software economics, development, and performance. SECO’s charter is guided by a leadership committee of executives from Adobe, Borland, Mercury, BEA, IBM, SAP, Siebel Systems, Sybase, webMethods, Hyperion, Cognizant, Novell, Informatica, Broadvision, Salesforce.com, EDS, Deloitte, and others.

More information is available at: www.bpmforum.org/seco