TO: XML/edi Group Many of us responsible for implementing e-business systems have run into the problem of finding skilled staff to design, develop, and lead the efforts that take good ideas and turn them into solutions. A number of people who face this problem are trying to tackle it by establishing a certification program for e-business professionals. This program, called the EC Institute, will develop technical and managerial certification exams to determine competence in key knowledge areas and establish targets for training and education program curricula. The EC Institute has a board of directors representing the academic world and business practitioners, and working with a team of volunteer advisors, has started amassing a body of knowledge, which will become the base from which they derive the certification exams. You can see the current state of this work on the EC Institute's Web site at http://www.ecinstitute.org/ecinstitute/education.htm . We need more help however, especially in the following areas: architectures, business relationship models, application of technologies, infrastructure, telecommunications, application integration, interoperability, strategic planning, and audit. The advisors complete the following critical tasks � -- Outline the actions and behaviors that determine competency in these topics -- Identify the key knowledge and skills needed to operate successfully -- List the organizations active in this field (including those that may already provide certification) -- Identify metrics or benchmarks related to the subject, and -- Define terminology for a glossary. The advisors meet twice a year, usually in conjunction with industry meetings, as well as take part in occasional conference calls. The next advisory board meeting is Tuesday 6 March in San Francisco, the day before the DISA conference. Several of the participants in the XML/edi list already serve on ECI boards (you can find their names on the ECI Web site, http://www.ecinstitute.org/), but we need more good people to help complete the body of knowledge. If you would like to contribute a little of your time to this important project, please contact me here at DISA, and indicate the area of expertise you can offer. Alan Kotok Director, Education and Information Resources Data Interchange Standards Association [EMAIL PROTECTED] +1 703-518-4174 ** DISA's E-Business and Internet Conference, 7-9 March 2001, in San Francisco. http://www.disa.org/conference/annual_conf/index.htm ** ------ XML/edi Group Discussion List ------ Homepage http://www.XMLedi-Group.org Unsubscribe send email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Leave the subject and body of the message blank Questions/requests: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To receive only one message per day (digest format) send the following message to [EMAIL PROTECTED], (leave the subject line blank) digest xmledi-group your-email-address To join the XML/edi Group complete the form located at: http://www.xmledi-group.org/xmledigroup/mail1.htm
