The Marvin L. Manheim Award For Significant Contributions in the Field of Workflow is an industry recognition created by the
Workflow Management Coalition
Workflow Management Coalition (WfMC) was a consortium formed to define standardization, standards for the interoperability of workflow management systems. The coalition was disbanded in 2019 and no longer exists.
History
The Coalition was found ...
in honor of the late
Marvin L. Manheim. Manheim was a co-founder of the Workflow Management Coalition and was the William A. Patterson Distinguished Professor of Transportation at the
Kellogg Graduate School of Management
The Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University (also known as Kellogg) is the business school of Northwestern University, a private research university in Evanston, Illinois. Founded in 1908, Kellogg is one of the oldest and most p ...
at
Northwestern University
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Charte ...
from 1983 until his death in August 2000.
Career
Before joining the
Kellogg School, he held faculty positions at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Established in 1861, MIT has played a key role in the development of modern technology and science, and is one of the ...
. Prof. Manheim's major area of interest was information technology and its uses strategically, competitively, and organizationally. It included strategy formulation and implementation processes; the management of globally competing organizations; and international transportation and logistics. He was also interested in computer assistance to human problem-solving and decision-making, including decision support systems (DSS) and artificial intelligence.
Award
The workflow award is given annually, since 2002, to recognize an individual or a specific group for their "influence, contribution, or distinguished use of workflow systems." The criteria for consideration is based on any significant contribution and not limited to members of the coalition. Both software developers and software end users have finalists and award recipients.
Manheim was a founder of
Cambridge Systematics
Cambridge Systematics, Inc. is an independent, employee-owned transportation consultancy firm with corporate headquarters located in Medford, Massachusetts. Cambridge Systematics provides strategic planning and management services, objective anal ...
, who in 2001 established a separate awards program called the "Marvin L. Manheim Award" to honor his memory and promote innovation in the field of transportation. This is a separate program and not related to the workflow award.
Recipients
*2019: Nathaniel Palmer, United States
*2017: Derek Miers, United Kingdom
*2016: Sandy Kemsley, Canada
*2015: Jim Sinur, United States
*2014: Connie W Moore, United States
*2006: David Hollingsworth, United Kingdom
*2005: Robert Shapiro, United States
*2003: Keith Swenson, United States
*2002: Jon Pyke, United Kingdom
*2001: Haruo Hayami, Japan
References
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Workflow technology
Business and industry awards