APBM's Mission, Vision, and Strategy

 

MISSION

The mission of APBM is to make business management a profession – similar to law, medicine, engineering, and accounting – with the CABM and CBM Certifications, Continuing Education, Code of Professional Ethics, and Professional Standards through Best Practices Research.

 

VISION

APBM’s vision is to establish a standardized process to deliver in a cost-effective and time-efficient manner a superior quality higher education in business management across the globe with the CABM and CBM Certifications.

APBM’s goal or objective is to ensure that a business manager who earns the CABM or CBM Credential today will be knowledge-competent and ethical for throughout his/her career and that he/she will then extend these core knowledge competencies and ethical values to tomorrow when he/she becomes a business executive (e.g., CEO) or a corporate director. To this end, APBM represents a single and collective voice for the entire business management profession, which symbolizes self-regulation by the profession.

 

STRATEGY

To accomplish its mission and vision, the APBM has formulated its strategy as follows:

* Develop a framework with a standardized curriculum using a Common Body of Knowledge for Business (CBKB) for uniform validation of knowledge for all practitioners and academicians in the business management community throughout the world.

* Develop comprehensive certification exams that demonstrate intense academic preparation and rigorous testing of business management knowledge.

* Develop a uniform criterion for entry into the profession and exit from the profession of business management.

* Require Continuing Education for life for all certification holders to ensure continuous learning and recertification.

* Develop a Code of Professional Ethics to follow and abide by all certification holders.

 

PLANS

To fulfill its strategy, the APBM has implemented the following action plans:

* Developed a Certified Business Manager (CBM) Credential based on the Common Body of Knowledge for Business.

* Partnered with an independent computer-based testing organization to conduct CBM Exams to demonstrate intense academic preparation and rigorous testing of business management knowledge.

* Released the exam preparation materials with great depth and breadth developed by an independent and major business publishing company to study for the CBM Exams.

* Required that each CBM candidate has, at a minimum, a four-year college, undergraduate education (or its equivalent) and four years work experience to provide an entry point into the profession.

* Developed continuing education requirements using quizzes based on Harvard Business Review Articles to provide an exit point from the profession when continuing education requirements are not fulfilled. A CBM holder will not be recertified when continuing education requirements are not met.

* Developed a Code of Professional Ethics to provide an exit point from the profession when ethics are violated and the CBM certificate will be revoked.

 

Standardization ensures consistency and comparability of knowledge and ensures objective measurement and positive evaluation of knowledge. The standardization process is clearly reflected in the CABM and CBM program from beginning to end. It begins with the submission of exam application, evaluation of eligibility requirements to take the exam, taking the actual exams, granting final certification, and reporting continuing education credits. It ends with the monitoring of recertification requirements and certified persons.

 

The standardized process evens out the differences in educational backgrounds, work experience, corporate training programs, business school curriculum formats, course content quality, teaching styles, student learning outcomes, and course delivery methods. The resulting benefit is establishing a common base of knowledge for all business professionals worldwide.