IMBOK Framework Overview
The Framework | Knowledge areas | Processes | Limitations


The Framework

The Framework is presented as five areas of knowledge (the blue rectangles) and four areas of process (the yellow arrows):

The knowledge areas are:

  • Information technology

  • Information system

  • Business process

  • Business benefit

  • Business strategy

The process areas are:

  • Projects

  • Business change

  • Business operations

  • Performance management


The IMBOK was a major deliverable from the "HictE" (ICT in Higher Education) project
HictE was a research partnership between UWC and CPUT funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York