The History of MIKE2.0

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The MIKE2.0 Methodology was initially created by a team from BearingPoint, a leading Management and Technology Consultancy.

The project started as MIKE2 (Method for an Integrated Knowledge Environment) which was the development of an approach for Enterprise Information Management. The MIKE2 initiative was started in early 2005 and the methodology was brought through a number of release cycles until it reached a mature state in late 2005. MIKE2.0 involved taking this approach and making it open source and more collaborative. Much of the content of the MIKE2.0 Methodology was made available to the Open Source community in late December 2006. When the IM Solution Suite project started in 2007, BearingPoint defined the suite architecture with MIKE2.0 as the open source “face” of the suite. Since then, the content has continued to evolve and the collaborative framework has become more sophisticated.

At this stage, the MIKE2.0 contributor base includes a number of indivduals, from BearingPoint and from external community. The Data Governance and Management Consortium (DGMC) is being formulated to take ownership of MIKE2.0 and to lead the extension of any aspects of the methodology.

MIKE2.0 Leadership Team

The leadership team for MIKE2.0 consists of the founding members of the MIKE2.0 Governance Association:

• Sven Mueller is the lead of BearingPoint's Information Management practice and is based in Zurich, Swizterland. As the EMEA lead of BearingPoint's IM Solution Suite, Sven drives adoption of the MIKE2.0 approach, integrated with BearingPoint's go-to-market solutions. He is President and Chairman of the Board of the MGA.

• Robert Hillard is a partner in Deloitte's Australia practice. Robert was the original sponsor of the MIKE2.0 Methodology, helps set the vision and has contributed directly to several articles such as the Economic Value of Information and Small Worlds Data Transformation Measure. He is Vice President of the MGA and also sits on the board.

• Sean McClowry founded the MIKE2.0 methodology. He is an Executive Director for the MIKE2.0 Methodology and holds a position on the MGA Board. Sean wrote much of the Overall Implementation Guide, and was the core contributor on a number of MIKE2.0 Solution Offerings, the Governance Model, SAFE Architecture and Supporting Assets. He created many of the key concepts in MIKE2.0, including the model behind the Open Methodology Framework. He also helped develop the overall collaborative framework that hosts the MIKE2.0 Methodology.

• Andreas Rindler is an Executive Director for the MIKE2.0 Methodology and holds a position on the MGA Board. He is a key contributor to a number of solution offerings including Information Governance, Enterprise Content Management, Enterprise 2.0 and also the overall Open Methodology Framework. He is the architect of the collaborative environment that hosts MIKE2.0 and the supporting open source collaboration platform OmCollab. These form the basis of key MIKE2.0 concepts like the Integrated Content Repository and Open Methodology Compliance.

MIKE2.0 Governance Association

BearingPoint is currently in the process of handing MIKE2.0 over to the MIKE2.0 Governance Association (MGA). The MGA represents industry, software vendors, systems integrators and independent technology experts and analysts that will govern the MIKE2.0 Methodology. The initial team is still being formulated, as well as its roles, responsibilities and operating model.