School of Arts and Letters
Department of Communication Studies

Beryl Bellman Professor Office: Music 107 Phone: 323/343-4262 FAX:323/343-6467 Email: bbellma@calstatela.edu

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Introduction Teaching Interests Research Interests
Educational Background

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Introduction

I am interested in human communications focusing on technologies and tools for complex program management, enterprise architecture, knowledge management and network collaborative learning and work. My teaching and research involves enterprise systems and architectures, knowledge management, decision support, business process modeling, technology and knowledge transfer, computer supported collaborative work,  business rules discovery, electronic commerce and e-government. My theoretical interests include intercultural strategic interaction and the cognitive skills associated with visual reasoning using models and diagrammatic forms of representation in organizational communications. 

I am also the co-founder and academic director of the FEAC Institute in Washington DC, which conducts research on and provides education and training leading to formal certification in the Federal Enterprise Architecture and the Department of Defense Architecture Framework.  We are also now developing new educational and certification programs in Security Architecture Framework and in Capital Planning and Investment Control/IT Portfolio Management. These programs are coordinated with the Division of Extended and Continuing Education at California State University at Hayward, who offers continuing education credits and, by arrangement, regular university credits for courses in each of these programs. These programs are offered in mixed mode, combining intensive face-to-face instruction in DC with electronic classroom using the FEAC Virtual University housed at Simon Fraser University

In addition to my teaching and research  I have consulted for numerous companies, government agencies and international organizations. This has involved  IT and business process related work for both internal and external clients of  DEC, ASK,  AT&T, NCR , Ptech as well as for the Executive Office of the President at the Whitehouse, the Immigration  and Naturalization Service, Department of Energy, Forestry Service, Conquest and  more. 

I actively involve students in several of my projects to provide opportunities for utilizing their communications skills in both academe and the private sector. In addition to work in the United States I have conducted research in a number of international IT related projects in Korea, the Peoples Republic of China, Australia, Canada, Europe, Africa and Latin America.

I am the President of the World Design Institute (a non-profit educational and research corporation) which runs World Design Forums - the last was held at the Daiyutai - Government Guest House in Beijing. The WDF was a meeting for high level business leaders and scholars exploring the above kinds of issues in international contexts.

I conducted intensive ethnographic research in intercultural communications, having spent over 18 years studying secrecy and secret societies in West Africa - with a special focus in Liberia and the Kpelle. I am also involved in helping to create programs to re-build local communities in Liberia that were devastated by the civil war. 

I also conducted communications research in Mali, Zambia, Kenya, Zimbabwe, Ivory Coast,  Guinea, Mexico and Peru.  I helped establish Internet capabilities in conjunction the African Academy of Sciences and the Kenya Computer Institute. I co-founded the first international academic research and educational  distributed computer conferencing network on the Internet in 1985 -  BESTNET, an acronym for the Binational English and Spanish Telecommunications Network.

Teaching Interests

 

I teach intercultural communications, organizational communications, applied communications and consulting, communications theory, language and human behavior and human communication technologies at the undergraduate and graduate levels.  A major goal is to explore ways to utilize new technologies to enhance education and training both within higher education and in relation to industry.

Research Interests

My research cross-cuts several fields of communications. My current projects include:

1. Enterprise architecture and organizational modeling

2. Intercultural factors in rational decision support and strategic interaction 

3. Knowledge Management

4. Business process renewal and reengineering

5. Electronic Commerce and e-Government

6. Computer supported collaborative work and distributed learning

7. Object Oriented modeling for business analyses, software specifications, solutions design and deployment.

Representative Professional Activities

Date	Sample Publications/Presentations
2003	The Role of Enterprise Architecture in E-Government, published in the Proceedings of PISTA, Orlando
2002	Performance Measurement & Balanced Scorecards for Academic Environments at AAHE
2001	Knowledge Management in the European Journal of Knowledge Management
2000	Object Oriented Enterprise Modeling and Distributed Cognition with Fagerquist, Arias and Asada in Cognitive Technologies proceedings
1995	Technology Transfer in Global Networking with Arias and Tindumbona, in Global Networks, ed L Harasim MIT Press
1994	Anonymity and Identity in Computer Messaging Systems, in Computer Conferencing: the last word, ed by R Mason
1993	Computer Communications and Learning in Teaching in the Information Age, ed Albright and Graf
1984	The Language of Secrecy Rutgers University Press

Educational Background