Marvin Manheim

Marvin Manheim was co-founder of the Black Forest Group and instrumental in the formation of the Workflow Management Coalition. He was professor at Northwestern University where he has appointments in the Kellogg Graduate School of Management and the General Motors Strategy Research Center.

The Marvin L. Manheim Award For Significant Contributions in the Field of Workflow was named in his honor.

Biography

Marvin L. Manheim was the William A. Patterson Distinguished Professor of Transportation at the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University from 1983 until his death in August 2000. Prof. Manheim was also associated with Northwestern's McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, Transportation Center, Steel Resource Center, Institute for Learning Studies, and Center for the Study of United States/Japan Relations, and taught executive management programs at Kellogg's James L. Allen Center. Prior to joining the Kellogg School, he held faculty positions at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 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.

References

• Michael Kull, Interview with Prof Marvin Manheim: Running Light One-On-One, KMWorld, Sep 27, 1999