Prof. Austin Tate is Technical Director at the Artificial Intelligence Applications Institute of The University of Edinburgh. Established in 1984, AIAI is a non-profit technology transfer organisation working with system providers and user companies throughout the world. AIAI uses knowledge based methods to support process management through process modelling, synthesis, analysis and modification. O-Plan work is funded as part of the $40 million US ARPA and USAF Planning Initiative which is developing next generation planning, command and control support infrastructure relevant to US military logistics. AIAI is pursuing its approach to the use of knowledge rich process representations in commercial applications though its collaboration in the Enterprise project. Enterprise is a consortium including AIAI, IBM, Unilever, Logica and Lloyds' Register and is the largest project supported by the UK government's Intelligent Systems Integration Programme.