Dear IAMC Members and Prospective Members,
The core purpose of IAMC is to help members stay on the cutting edge in times of dramatic change. The recently concluded IAMC Spring Professional Forum in Charleston, S.C., was a tremendous reputation builder in that regard, and revealed our sound platform for delivering that level of value to members. These days, we’re all doing more work with fewer resources. IAMC aims to enable you to do more with more.
One of many examples was the Forum’s new “Get Some Help” session (highlighted elsewhere in this issue), where the feedback among corporate end users and service providers was fast and useful on a wide array of issues we face each day. The peer-to-peer sessions in Charleston also provided shared insights into global portfolio management, incentives and site selection.
Discussion on these topics and more will be continuing in our Web site’s “IAMC Interactive” area, as well as through e-mails, conference calls and the quickly evolving Regions program. Such ongoing conversation will only serve to strengthen our resource database, allowing members to scan previous topics for answers or expertise. And the Regions will emerge as great between-Forum opportunities for both education and face-to-face networking, bringing the larger issues we face into crystallized, regional form.
As the new chair of IAMC, my vision for the immediate future is to capitalize on the tremendous talent in this organization, and to enable this dialogue. My role is to ensure consistency in values and vision. But you certainly don’t need my hands on the wheel. Committees and Regions have already taken on lives of their own, reflective of an organization that is diverse in experience and ideas, but united in its energy and sense of purpose.
At IAMC, people aren’t waiting to be asked — they’re just doing. That’s the way of quiet leaders. And it’s a good way for us to further grow IAMC value.
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| Charles McSwain |