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Dave Ackley is the founder of Ackley Associates, a consulting firm that specializes in advanced modeling methods. He has over 35 years' experience in business and systems analysis, method development and process improvement. He holds a BS in electrical engineering, an MBA, and a PhD in business administration.
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Early Enterprise Modeling: Dr. Ackley's involvement in enterprise modeling began in 1978, with development of a top-down "functional business modeling" method to plan information systems and database projects at Lockheed Missiles & Space Company. Since that time he has consulted with over 50 major corporations on enterprise modeling, information systems planning and process reengineering.
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Process-Object-State Method: In 1987 he developed a a more complete enterprise modeling method called "Process-Object-State" (POS). The research and development effort included participation by Pacific Bell and Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation (MCC). This method was highly efficient for detailed business modeling, but like most existing methods was time consuming for enterprise-level modeling.
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Business Enterprise Model: Recognizing the pressure on businesses to respond ever more quickly to market and technology changes, Dr. Ackley began a search in 1995 for a way to drastically reduce enterprise model development time. This led to his breakthrough discovery of a single generic architectural structure that is common to every business enterprise. The result is an entirely new template-based integrated modeling method that reduces enterprise model development time and cost by over 95%.
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City Model: In 2000, he was asked to develop a model of a city and its government. It soon became clear that the business enterprise modeling method was inadequate for the job. Although a city has some business enterprise characteristics, it is a very different kind of entity whose modeling would require a much broader scope. This turned out to be a daunting task, and little did he know then that development of this model would require viewing a city as an organic living system.
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Living Systems Model: After much research and many intermediate attempts, Dr. Ackley has finally developed the conceptual framework necessary to model a city, its organizations, citizens, and governing structure. Preliminary information about this new model is now available in the new Living Systems Model section of this website.
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Representative Client List
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Army & Air Force Exchange Service
British Columbia Telephone
Centel
Dome Petroleum
Federal Reserve Bank
First City Trust
Fording Coal
General Dynamics
Great West Life Assurance
GTE Telephone Operations
Insurance Corporation of British Columbia
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Lockheed Missiles & Space Company
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Lucky Stores
Manitoba Hydro
Manitoba Telephone System
Pacific Bell
Portland General Electric
Readers Digest
Security Pacific Bank
Sprint
Storage Technology Corporation
Symantec Corporation
Union Carbide Nuclear Division
Union Oil 76 Division
Valley National Bank
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Last revised: 9/8/07
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