PETER P. YIM

Peter has more than 30 years working experience as a manager, entrepreneur, technologist, researcher, strategist and futurist. He has managed as many as 3000 people and 300 software engineers, and has built companies from scratch to $500 million in revenue. He has learnt the art and science of working effectively at almost any part of an organization -- from the executive office, to corporate boardrooms, to R&D, all the way to the shop floor. He has been working in corporate settings, academia, as well as on non-profits, education and government boards.

Peter has been a pioneer in developing and applying collaboration technology in manufacturing and software development; and in the integration of multi-cultural virtual teams and global enterprises. He is the proponent (first in 1990) of  CIM3 (Computer Integrated Man-Machine Manufacturing) -- an approach to holistic corporate (manufacturing especially) improvement through extending the traditional CIM architecture and design to incorporate the paradigm of Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW).

He graduated from Cornell University in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, and has concentrated in organizational behavior and personnel management studies at Cornell’s Graduate Business School.

Peter has held senior management positions at companies like Astec (Sr. Mgr.), VerticalNet (Director), the Wong's Group (GM), Philips (GM, BOD member) and the CIM Group (President & CEO). He and his hardware operations has contract manufactured for corporations such as IBM, Apple, HP, Dell, TI, Xerox, Seagate, Ford, Delco, Matsushita, Alps, Atari and Sega. His software operations has developed network o/s, groupware, ERP and high availability systems for the stock market. The many tertiary institutions he has worked at include the UCLA Plasma Physics Lab, MIT Research Lab of Electronics, Cornell Psychology Lab, the CWRU Center for Management of Technology (Adjunct Faculty member), the Institute of Industrial Engineers (Vice President), the Institute for the Future (Research Fellow), the Center for Technology Innovation and Strategy Studies (Fellow), the AC/UNU Millennium Project (Research Panelist, Contributor and Reviewer) and at Doug Engelbart's Bootstrap Institute (Staff Advisor).  

These days, he consults, writes, lectures and works with children in education. He has been sitting on numerous industrial, technology or educational boards and committees, as advisor to various governments and tertiary institutions. He resides in the San Francisco Bay Area, USA and can be reached by e-mail at yimpp@cim-oem.com