CIECA 2003 Tactical Plan                                                                                Strategic Plan-2005-6         2004 Tactical Plan

This is the operating plan as developed by the Strategic Planning Committee that met in October and December of 2002. This document covers the 2003 Calendar Year. The CIECA Board of Trustees at the January 2003 meeting approved the Strategic Plan. It will guide the CIECA Committees in all their 2003 activities. It is the responsibility of the individual committees to provide at least quarterly progress reports to be used in the maintenance of this document.

The initiatives have been categorized into Administrative, General, and Project initiatives. Many initiatives were identified at the Strategy Meetings. The top four Project initiatives were prioritized as CIECA’s 2003 Project Objectives. The remaining proposed project initiatives will be reviewed as 2003 project initiatives are completed and assigned a 2003 priority, if applicable. Committees currently engaged with activities other than those listed in this Plan will continue. The fact that these initiatives are not listed in this Plan does not diminish their importance.

The current CIECA Logo consists of many different versions of a simple character representation. CIECA is seeking a distinguishing logo to identify CIECA to the industry.

A series of Press Releases and Web Site promotions will be used to secure entries. A Grand Prize and four (4) runner-up Prizes will be awarded. The five finalists will be announced at the Annual Conference in May in Orlando. The Grand Prize Winner will be announced on July 23rd at CIC/I-CAR.

CIECA's Inaugural Conference will be in conjunction with ACORD at ACORD’s annual technology conference. The conference will be held on May 18-20 in Orlando. Action Items include:

• Brochure Distribution

• Determine Track/Seminar Content

• Solicit Speakers

• Promote Attendance

• Conference

• Post-conference Critique

• Decision for 2004

CIECA’s Intellectual Property had been universally available for download from the web site. A Member's Only Area is to be established and all CIECA IP will be placed into this area. CIECA membership is required for access to this area. Licensing of CIECA IP will be reviewed as well as reviewing the current structure of membership categories and business volume levels. The current economic environment requires the issue of membership to be revisited. Action items will include:

• Convene a working committee

• Determine and Analyze IP options

• Analyze implementation impact on system/services providers

• Determine administrative impact on CIECA

• Make Recommendation for Board of Trustee Approval

Currently Vendor Software and/or Services are not monitored with regard to meeting CIECA Standards. The topic of Certification has been discussed in the industry and within CIECA in the past. The time has come to define and implement this process. Action items include:

• Define Charter (EMS only in 2003, others afterward)

• Decision Self-Policing or Certification Board

• Develop automation tool(s) - SDK

• Recommendation to Board of Trustees

The Board of Trustees, the Strategy Committee, and the PPA Committee recognized the need of an industry-wide repository of data definitions. One that will be maintained and used throughout CIECA and the industry. This initiative was approved in concept.

The PPA was formed at the December CIECA Strategic Planning Meeting. The purpose of this ad-hoc committee is to define the activities associated with the support of CIECA priorities listed in the December 2002 Strategic Planning meeting. The group will make activity and process recommendations to the Board of Trustees that will assist CIECA in meeting the 2003 goals.      

The current Committee/Action Teams structure is being reviewed and analyzed in order to best meet the current and future requirements of CIECA's Members, Member Companies, and the Collision Repair Industry. It is anticipated that several new committees will be formed, as well as retiring other current committees/action teams.

• Scheme Based Standards

• Recommendations

  • Architectural Committee

  • Influence ACORD to accept CIECA XML.SchemaBased.Standards

  • Board Policy

    • All new & Enhancement Projects in XML

    • EDI, fixes and Mandatory Changes only

The committee is coordinating with the EMS Committee on the Final Draft of its recommendations.
 

With use of the Internet growing and its increased use for business communications, security issues are being studied. CIECA can assist the industry by consolidating efforts to study this issue and recommend best practices.

The committee has identified a set of security recommendations. This draft set of recommendations is currently being reviewed by the committee. The current plan is to publish the recommendation document by the end of 1st quarter of 2003.
 

• Business Case Completed

• EMS 2.6/124/272 Data Aggregation completed

• Vendor data element wish list added to the Master Data Set

• XML Tag Names for EMS elements completed

• XML Scheme – first draft for Assignment completed

• XML Assignment examples completed

• ACORD standard due-diligence 90+% complete.

The committee is coordinating with the XML Study Group on its recommendations. In addition, the EMS committee is moving forward toward completion of its original work. The current plan is to submit for review the EMSxml standard by the end of 2nd quarter of 2003.
 

CIECA established a CSI subcommittee to take steps to address standardization of CSI. Lack of interest and participation stalled efforts in 2003. Insurers as well as CSI practitioners have expressed renewed interest in 2002. The standards would be intended to facilitate electronic communication of data and its subsequent distribution. Development will be in XML.