The International EMBOK Model includes five knowledge domains encompassing 35 functional areas (Classes), five phases, five processes, and five core values. The website will shortly feature a portal for interested persons to make contributions toward the further development and improvement of the model. In addition, Global Advisors will be appointed by the International EMBOK Executive to facilitate the further development, usage and ratification of the International EMBOK Model.

Releasing the International EMBOK Model into the public domain will make it a flexible resource available to a broad variety of industry stakeholders. Associations may use the EMBOK for producing and perfecting professional development programming and credentialing products that offer international recognition and career portability for their members. Education organizations, including academic and vocational training institutions, may use the EMBOK for developing and maintaining quality curriculum programs based on benchmarked current practice, as well as creating relevant research opportunities. Governments may use the EMBOK when seeking to create worthwhile employment opportunities and considering policies and regulatory legislation to protect their citizenry and minimize their liability. Current and future practitioners and suppliers may use the EMBOK for clear direction towards continuous improvement of quality, efficiency and profitability. And the event management industry may use the EMBOK for image and stature enhancement by articulating the scope and complexity of the profession.

The International EMBOK Model draws knowledge domains and the range of activities involved in event management together with the event planning process, which will enable the event management discipline to be mapped, defined and refined. This holistic three-dimensional framework enables the process to be broken down into individual components, illustrates the logical relationships between these components over time, and should facilitate better understanding, an infrastructure for information, and the possibility of improvement.

The Knowledge Domains and their Classes (or management areas) are the grouping of tasks and responsibilities of event management into subject areas for the purposes of study, analysis and application. It is based on, and facilitates the assimilation of, data gathered through experience, expert opinion, and review of research and industry literature. Within each Class are numerous Elements, for example Administration (Domain): Human Resources (Class): Volunteers (Element), which will be subject to different objectives, procedures, and constraints during different phases. The taxonomy of Elements will be developed over time as the International EMBOK is refined through the work of users, researchers and other contributors.

The five phases emphasize the importance of time in any project model and the fact that each component in the knowledge domain has a time dimension. The processes are an integrated, sequential and iterative system associated with each element of each functional area of each domain at each phase in the event management process, with tools and techniques that may be used for each. The core values of creativity, strategic thinking, continuous improvement, ethics, and integration are the values that must permeate all decisions throughout event management regarding every element, phase, and process.

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