IAMC Insider, Site Selection magazine, September 2004

Welcome to Memphis.

Now Let’s Get Down to Business.

After
all, that’s what distinguishes IAMC: a professional focus
that only continues to improve in resolution and results.

      This is Site Selection’s annual infrastructure
issue, and there couldn’t be a better word to describe the
growing internal strength of IAMC. As demonstrated once again
at our July board meetings, there are so many people doing
an incredible job of building a complete framework for IAMC’s
success.

      The 16 committees have done an outstanding
job in identifying issues and bringing them forward. More
importantly, the enthusiasm of people in volunteering their
time and effort in putting this together is incredible. One
committee alone — the Education Committee — spent 127 hours
identifying emerging issues and making sure they dovetail
with the program committee, so that the programs we offer
are in tune and focused.

      We test this focus after each one of
our biannual Forums, to make sure that the deliverable was
indeed delivered, and to measure how successful it was. A
special session during the Memphis Forum will seek input from
attendees on emerging issues IAMC ought to address. And Site
Selection Editor Mark Arend will host his own focus group
on how this publication can best serve its loyal readers.

      One issue we’re all aware of is the importance
of logistics and transportation in corporate real estate.
Simultaneous with the publication in this issue of a spotlight
article on this topic, the IAMC Research Roundtable is also
taking up the theme in Memphis, with “Supply Chain Teaming
with Corporate Real Estate to Leverage Company Success.”

      Now is the time to leverage the infrastructure
of IAMC. In Memphis, we’ll be enjoying the Memphis barbecue
— but from every Forum we take home an extra helping of focus
to enhance our personal and corporate success .