The Industry Standard for Enterprise Change & Configuration Management

Since 1986, IpX’s proprietary CM2 methodology has been the global enterprise standard for true enterprise change and configuration management. CM2 has provided the most robust comprehensive methodology for managing the configuration of a product, system, or service throughout its life while accommodating change and keeping requirements clear, concise, and valid. Join the more than 15,000 professionals who have earned our certifications.

Creating Ecosystem Excellence with Integrated Agility

CM2 is the industry standard for the digital thread and the supporting framework that bridges gaps between design and data flow analysis tools with a common language. It empowers cohesive interoperability and brings together many systems to make them more resilient within zero-trust, multi-stakeholder environments without the need for intermediaries or certificate authorities.

When we think of an organization’s processes and data, we traditionally think of them as a simple tool or step in the system that helps an organization accomplish a goal. With CM2 we challenge that concept. A corporation’s data is so much more than a simple tool. It’s the organization’s CM2 Digital DNA – the foundational building blocks that allow you to leverage institutional knowledge, optimize current product offerings and conceptualize the products of tomorrow with complete end-to-end ecosystem traceability.

The CM2 DNA: The Most Dynamic End-to-End Ecosystem Traceability

Enterprise Sustainability, Scalability and Quality with CM2

People &Processes

Systems &Data

Lifecycle Phases

The terms Digital Thread and Digital Twin have been a favorite of industry over the last several years. What exactly is the Digital Thread? What is the Digital Twin, and how do we get there? Think of the Digital Thread as the digital connective tissue between enterprise disciplines and datasets akin to the building blocks of a DNA strand. Individually they each tell part of the story from a different perspective and with a different focus. But connected together they become far more powerful. They build upon one another to create a product or project – a Digital Twin.

Thus allowing an organization to work initiatives and challenges tactically with confidence that the scope of the change is understood not only at its current point in the lifecycle but with an understanding of downstream implications to ensure the decisions being made address the full lifecycle of the product.

Drawing from IpX’s experience, we believe breakthrough business process improvement outcomes are achieved by holistically addressing the interoperability of your organization’s people, processes, systems, and data. Technology enables process change, but desirable business improvement outcomes cannot be achieved without organizational changes. Ultimately, people must be inspired, empowered, and engaged.

CM2 Certification Courses

Globally Recognized Certifications

We teach the core concepts of this methodology in a six-course series that results in a globally recognized CM2-Comprehensive Certification. Following a CM2-C, our CM2-Professional track courses expand on the core concepts and teach practical application. Our virtual instructor-led and online self-paced courses provide flexibility so an individual learner can create a training schedule that meets their schedule. Private courses can be provided for teams with as few as four members.

CM2-Comprehensive: Courses CM2-01 through CM2-06

CM2-01 | Foundations of Operational Excellence

How an organization identifies, structures, links and assigns ownership to its requirements and internal processes directly affects its ability to successfully and efficiently perform the intended mission or achieve its…

CM2-02 | Requirements and the CM2 Baseline

CM2-03 | Fundamentals of Change Management

CM2-04 | The CM2 Change Process

The inability of an organization to successfully manage their datasets ties directly back to their inability to effectively manage change. Most organizations have subject matter experts (SMEs) identified for each key discipline…

CM2-05 | The Complexities of Lifecycle Sustainment

CM2-06 | Enterprise CM2 Implementation

CM2-01 | Foundation of Operational Excellence

CM2-02 | Requirements and the CM2 Baseline

Requirements management is the foundation for the Digital Thread. Organizations struggle with the ability to define and maintain the digital architecture needed to support Software, Hardware, Systems, Facilities, and Infrastructure throughout the entire lifecycle. The inability to effectively manage the Digital Thread creates a high level of corrective action in every phase of the lifecycle.

CM2-03 | Fundamentals of Change Management

Organizations continually struggle to define a change process that is fast and efficient while accommodating change based on their needs. Many organizations have changed or replaced their change process multiple times without understanding the dynamics of change or the building blocks needed to facilitate change management.

CM2-04 | The CM2 Change Process

CM2-05 | Complexities of Lifecycle Sustainment

All organizations struggle with the ability to manage information accurately for the enterprise or throughout the deliverable lifecycle. This failure creates a high level of intervention resource expenditure and an inability to track fielded configurations. This drives significant warranty, recall, and concession costs that can have devastating impacts on the business. This course is about the linkages that enable the digital thread and understanding the gaps between product development, factories, and the service organizations.

CM2-06 | Enterprise CM2 Implementation

Organizations continue to be disappointed with the results of efforts to implement improvements to legacy PDM, PLM, and/or ERP systems. Even when opportunities for specific improvements are identified, they struggle with the ability to achieve successful implementation. These improvement projects are oftentimes reduced in scope and still experience cost overruns and missed schedules.

CM2-07 | Optimization of Core Business Processes

There are 19 core business processes identified in the CM2 Model. The CM2-Comprehensive Certification Series (Courses CM2-01 through CM2-06) focuses on eight of those core business processes which establish the foundation for the CM2 Model within an organization.

CM2-08 | Sustainable Organizational Transformation

CM2 courses CM2-01 through CM2-07 focused on each of the 19 core business processes identified in the CM2 Model. An organization wishing to achieve world-class status must establish an atmosphere of organizational transformation.

CM2-09 | Application Workshops for Achieving Operational Excellence

This course focuses on shifting the paradigms that are most important and also the most challenging to those implementing CM2. Course participants will perform a variety of roles and, by the end of the third day...

CM2-07 | Optimization of Core Business Processes

CM2-08 | Sustainable Organizational Transformation

CM2-09 | Application Workshops for Achieving Operational Excellence

IpX & CM2 Training

Practical and Actionable

Traditional configuration management is a siloed Engineering approach and limits the application of CM principles. CM2 is practical and actionable. It expands the scope of CM to include all information that could impact safety, security, quality, schedule, cost, profit, the environment, corporate reputation, and brand recognition.

CM2 goes beyond configuration management to provide the 7 key elements for driving enterprise success supported by
enabling software solutions:

→ Requirements Management
→ Change Management
→ Release Management
→ Data Management
→ Documents Management
→ Records Management
→ Configuration Management

CM2-16 | Refresher for CM2 Graduates

Successful implementation of the IpX CM2 Baseline and Closed-Loop change process is a prerequisite to achieving the end-to-end configuration…

CM2-111 The Cost of Intervention Resources

In this 2-hour workshop, participants will learn how to calculate the cost of rework and measure its severe impact on the organization's culture,…

Universal Document Control

Although document control is an aged-old profession and is widely implemented in various activity sectors, most have difficulty defining it…

BIM – The Future of Building Information Modeling

The core IpX BIM Model sets the foundation for the proper management and communication of asset requirements that drive the creation of the model,…

Cybersecurity and Compliance

This course will examine the fundamental changes that must take place within an organization and its processes. We will utilize specific fundamental…

EIA-649 Application of the Standard for Configuration Management

The SAE EIA-649, Standard for Configuration Management is a Configuration Management (CM) standard used by both governmental and private enterprises…

CM2-10 | Autonomous and Adaptive Interoperability

This course will discuss why changing that environment requires an understanding of how current processes relate to best practices and the culture…

CM2-12 | Empowering Innovation With Guard Rails

This course will provide practical knowledge and demonstrate that breakthrough business process improvement outcomes are achieved by holistically…

CM2-13 | Optimizing the Software Lifecycle with CM2

This course describes how the CM2 model for configuration management (CM) can be applied to software. The challenge boils down to what an…

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