ICMCI nieuws
Sinds 1989 is de Ooa lid van de International Council of Management Consultancy Institutes (ICMCI).
De functie van de vereniging is het internationaal bevorderen van contact en informatie-uitwisseling tussen instituten die zich bezighouden met management consulting, het bevorderen van de acceptatie van het beroep ‘’management consultant’’ en het opzetten en verspreiden van een certificaat voor de beroepsgroep. Een netwerk van Instituten (Member Institutes) over de gehele wereld, inmiddels meer dan 45 landen, zijn aangesloten bij de ICMCI.
Namens de Ooa zijn de volgende bestuursleden trustee van de ICMCI:
Marjo Dubbeldam, Carolien de Monchy en Wim Visser a.i. De Ooa heeft tevens een afgevaardigde in de ICMCI Executive Committee. Dat is Rob Wagenaar. Voor meer informatie over de ICMCI kunt u zich richten tot 1 van de trustees.
Meer informatie CMC - ICMCI brochure >>
Hieronder treft u de laatste nieuwsberichten van de ICMCI.
12-10-2011
Constantinus International Award
Dear Sir or Madam,
We are happy to inform you that the winners of the first Constantinus International Award were announced on October 6, 2011 at the festive occasion of the 2011 ICMCI Biennial Congress in Taipei. In front of international representatives of the management consulting branch, the prizes were awarded to the following management consultancies:
- The Gold Medal went to FLUIDTIME DATA SERVICES from Austria and was awarded to the representative of the Austrian Association of Management Consultancy by Mrs. Caroline Cheng, Business Manager of Swarovski Taiwan.
- The Silver Medal for VIALTO CONSULTING Ltd. was presented to the representative of the Hungarian national institute by Dr. Walter Höfle, Austrian Trade Commissioner in Taipei.
- Another Silver Medal was bestowed upon the CHINA CONSULTANTS OF ADVISORY AND FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT co.ltd (CCAFM) by Aneeta Madhok, Phd, CMC, Chairperson of ICMCI.
You may find photos of this event on the website of Constantinus International Award. For further information on the submitted projects and national nominees, please click here! The press release regarding the bestowal of the Constantinus International Award is available here.
The outstanding projects submitted to the Constantinus International Award were presented to an international jury of professionals in the branch and demonstrate that the services and know-how provided by management consultants all around the world deserve international reputation and attention. Therefore, we are looking forward to the next Constantinus International Award and invite you cordially to participate in this great project.
For further information, please contact the ICMCI office (info@icmci.org) or Constantinus Club (office@constantinus.net).
Best regards,
Aneeta Madhok, CMC, Immediate Past Chair ICMCI
Francesco d’Aprile, CMC, Chair ICMCI
Ilse Ennsfellner, CMC, Vice Chair ICMCI
27-09-2011
Documents for the 2011 Biennial Congress ICMCI
Dear Delegate, dear Trustee,
We are pleased to inform you about the documents for the Taipei Biennial Congress, which will give you an idea of the planned agenda and for background reading (see attachment).
Click here to download all the documents.
You need not carry printouts because the entire set of documents will be available in the delegate kit specially designed for the congress.
If you have further questions, please do not hesitate to contact us. I am looking forward to see you all in Taipei!
With best wishes,
Aneeta Madhok
Chairperson ICMCI
________________________________________________________________________
International Council of Management Consulting Institutes (ICMCI)
Secretariat:
P.O. Box 1058
3860 BB Nijkerk
The Netherlands
T: +31 33 247 34 70
F: +31 33 246 04 70
E: info@icmci.org
W: www.icmci.org
15-09-2011
ICMCI elected officers for 2011-2013
Dear Executive Directors, Trustees and Presidents / Chairmen,
The Nominations and Succession Planning Committee (NSPC) are delighted to report the slate of elected ICMCI Officers for 2011 to 2013.
There were a total of 64 people (trustees) eligible to vote in the election. As of the deadline for close of the ballot, midnight (Central European Time) Sunday September 11th, we are pleased to report that 62 completed and valid ballot papers had been received. This unprecedented participation is taken as confirming the interest in ICMCI by trustees and confirmation that the candidates for the ICMCI offices are of significant and recognised quality. The NSPC would like to thank all the candidates for their patient and professional involvement with the process, and to thank the trustees for their participation in the elections.
It is not ICMCI's practice to divulge the number of votes received by each candidate. However, it is worth noting that the nominee for Chair was approved by all but one voter: the exception being driven by modesty to not vote for himself. This is a powerful endorsement of the Chair for the next two years.
It is our pleasure to inform you that the results, as agreed to by NSPC, of the ICMCI elections for the officers for 2011-2013 resulted in the following ICMCI officers elect for 2011-2013:-
Chair: Francesco d'Aprile
Secretary: Drumm McNaughton
Treasurer: Sorin Caian
Vice Chairs: Ilse Ennsfellner
Calvert Markham
Rob Wagenaar
Tim Millar
Anton Barisic
Immediate past Chair: Aneeta Madhok
The Committee wishes them individually and collectively wisdom and every success.
NSPC feel compelled to comment on a complaint e-mail sent to many Trustees (but not directly to NSPC) from the provisional ICMCI member in Kazakhstan, KAMC, regarding Drumm McNaughton, who has been, as announced above, elected Secretary.
The nominations process includes a requirement that NSPC, on behalf of the Trustees, ensures that every nomination is complete and in order, and that the nominee is a fit and proper person to hold ICMCI office. The committee took this duty seriously and had completed their checks before announcing the slate of candidates. As far as the complaint e-mail is concerned; a) it contained no new information that was not known to the Committee at the time of the vetting of candidates, b) it incorrectly alleged actions by one of the candidates were outside ICMCI rules, c) included many allegations against a respected founder member of ICMCI - IMC USA - which, of course, were of no relevance to the election outcome, and d) it was not presented until after the close of the ballot (and then not to the committee running the election directly on behalf of the Trustees). For these reasons, the Committee had no inclination, desire or authority to reverse the clearly expressed support of a considerable majority of Trustees for the election to office of the individual. The Committee proposes that the result of the election stands and so will present the new ExCom and Chair to the Trustees in the Business Meeting in Taipei.
The Nominations and Succession Planning Committee congratulates all the successful candidates on their selection by the leading members of our honourable profession across the world, and thanks all candidates for stepping forward to stand for ICMCI office. I would like to thank all the members of the committee for their persistence, tenacity and insightful comments throughout the nominations and election period.
Yours sincerely
Brian Ing
(on behalf of the entire nominations committee, Gerry Humphries, Fahrettin Otluoglu, Angelo Kehayas, Aneeta Madhok and Brian Ing)
17-08-2011
Excom ICMCI in Nederland
Op 15 en 16 augustus 2011 was een afvaardiging van de Executive Committee (Excom) van the International Council of Management Consulting Institutes (ICMCI) in Nederland.
Op de tweede avond bespraken de Ooa bestuursleden/ trustees met de Excom leden de toekomstplannen van de ICMCI. De Ooa heeft in 2008 het initiatief genomen om de ICMCI op een hoger plan te brengen. Inmiddels is dat initiatief omgedoopt tot het ICMCI Breakthrough Strategy Project. BIj de voortgang van dat project blijft de Ooa graag nauw betrokken.
vlnr:
Raimond Fifis, verenigingsmanager Ooa
Aneeta Madhok, voorzitter ICMCI
Wim Visser, vice voorzitter en waarnemend voorzitter Ooa
Carolien de Monchy, Ooa bestuurslid en ICMCI trustee
Brian Ing ICMCI Excom lid
Rob Wagenaar, ICMCI excom lid
Marjo Dubbeldam, Ooa bestuur en ICMCI trustee
Francesco d'Aprile, ICMCI Excom lid en kandidaat voorzitter ICMCI
03-08-2011
Extension early bird discount for ICMCI Biennial Congress
Dear Trustees, Office Bearers of member Institutes, all consultants,
As we have informed you on several occasions, the Biennial Congress of ICMCI:
"Developing the Global Consulting Community" Together Towards Taiwan is scheduled from October 5th to 8th 2011, at Taipei, Taiwan.
We want to inform you that the early bird discount is extended until August 21th, 2011. If you have not registered yet, please do so in the next few weeks and profit from the early bird discount!
More information regarding the Congress can be found on the ICMCI website.
Looking forward to greeting all in Taiwan.
Sincerely,
Aneeta Madhok, PhD, CMC
Chairperson
ICMCI
Charles Liu
Chairman
BMCA
01-06-2011
Nominations for ExCom 2011-2013
Dear Trustees
We have been informing you all of the progress towards seeking nominations for the Officer Roles of ICMCI. That is Chair, Secretary, Treasurer and Vice Chairs (5) roles.
The Nominations and Succession Planning is now formally inviting all interested in undertaking these roles to submit a completed nomination form The completed form should be returned to the ICMCI Secretariat (icmci@icmci.org) by July 25th but an earlier return would be greatly appreciated.
The form has a single final page which includes the need for supporting signatures. The signatures can be presented on single copies of this last page to ease the logistics of collecting the statements of support. We would expect that candidates would have shown the complete form to those from whom they are seeking support.
Anyone who wishes to discuss the opportunities or the process are invited to talk to any member of the committee - their e-mails are included in the address line of this e-mail.
The committee look forward to receiving nominations from those who care about our profession and share our commitment to the future of ICMCI.
Yours in consulting
Brian Ing CMC
Chair ICMCI Nominations and Succession Planning Committee
Nomination Form 2011-2013 final
01-06-2011
Reminder for registration for "Developing the Global Consulting Community" Together Towards Taiwan
Dear Trustees, Office Bearers of member Institutes, all consultants,
Greetings from ICMCI. On the 14th of April an invitation for the forthcoming Biennial Congress of ICMCI “Developing the Global Consulting Community” Together Towards Taiwan, scheduled from October 5th to 8th 2011, at Taipei, Taiwan, was sent to you.
More information regarding the Congress can be found in the attached brochures and on the ICMCI website: www.icmci.org.
Do register if you have not done so already.
Looking forward to greeting all in Taiwan.
Sincerely,
Aneeta Madhok, PhD, CMC
Chairperson
ICMCI
Charles Liu
Chairman
BMCA
ICMCI Pre-Congress
ICMCI Congress
Registration-2011 biennial congress
Registration-2011 Pre-Congress Seminar
23-02-2011
Results voting on Resolutions Jordan Conference 2010
Dear ICMCI Board of Trustees, Chairmen/Presidents and Executive Directors,
It is our duty to inform you all of the recent vote on the resolutions arising from the Jordan Conference in September 2010. We confirm that 58 votes were cast, out of a maximum possible of 63. The process was in accord with the procedures and bylaws of ICMCI.
| Resolutions | For | Against | Abstention | Votes cast |
| Resolution 1. Breakthrough (1) | 55 | 2 | 1 | 58 |
| Resolution 2. Breakthrough (2) | 54 | 2 | 2 | 58 |
| Resolution 3. Breakthrough (3) | 53 | 3 | 2 | 58 |
| Resolution 4. Breakthrough (4) | 50 | 3 | 5 | 58 |
| Resolutions 4A. Breakthrough | 48 | 3 | 7 | 58 |
| Resolution 5. PSC (1) | 58 | 0 | 0 | 58 |
| Resolution 6. PSC (2) | 54 | 2 | 2 | 58 |
| Resolution 7. IAF | 56 | 1 | 1 | 58 |
| Resolution 8. ILO | 58 | 0 | 0 | 58 |
| Resolution 9. International Consulting Award | 50 | 7 | 1 | 58 |
| Resolution 10. Finance (1) | 57 | 1 | 0 | 58 |
| Resolution 11. Finance (2) | 54 | 4 | 0 | 58 |
| Resolution 12. Finance (3) | 56 | 1 | 1 | 58 |
| * "A" votes on 4A: 43, "B" votes on 4A: 5 |
The requirement for a resolution to be adopted by ICMCI is for a 50% majority of Trustees to vote for the resolution. This requirement would be achieved with 32 votes for a resolution. We declare that all ten resolutions have been adopted.
We are delighted to see a nearly 92% participation by Trustees in the vote.
Kind regards,
Mark Nesbitt
Secretary
29-04-2010
SIGNPOSTS AND MILESTONES: Half Yearly Progress Report from ExCom - March 2010
Dear Trustees, Office Bearers and Executive Directors of member institutes, Volunteers on committees and task forces,
It is my pleasure to present to you the half yearly progress report from your Executive Committee for the period ending March 2010 as attached. We had presented this report at the Euro Hub meeting of Trustees in Bucharest last week and would now like to circulate it amongst all stakeholders. You might like to share with members of your institute and discuss the matters at meetings of your national committees, etc.
The purpose of this report is to keep you updated on the working of the ExCom and some definition of the ways forward. I do hope you would read this report with interest and engagement, as communication of this sort has been much demanded by many trustees in the past. I hope it will meet the objective of keeping you informed as expected by you.
Your comments and feedback are always welcome.
More information about the Euro Hub meeting (presentations) can be found on the ICMCI website; http://www.icmci.org/library&collectionId=14655351
With best wishes
Aneeta Madhok
Chairperson (2009-2010)
ICMCI
_______________________________________________________________________
International Council of Management Consulting Institutes (ICMCI)
Secretariat:
P.O. Box 1058
3860 BB Nijkerk
The Netherlands
T: +31 33 247 34 70
F: +31 33 246 04 70
E: info@icmci.org
W: www.icmci.org
03-03-2010
Briefing note 4 - Getting into print
Dear Colleagues and Participants in ICMCI
Attached is the latest in the series of occasional ICMCI briefing papers. As has been explained before these are prepared to help Members, are written as a once off (that is to say not updated or maintained) and are offered as ideas for members to consider. any Member can prepare a briefing note, and I would encourage you all to consider doing so as a way of building the sharing community of ICMCI. So far, all the topics have been of particular interest to those running professional institutes. The latest is similarly targeted, but of course could be useful to individual consultancies considering their own press practices.
We are convinced that between us we have a coherent and valuable set of messages about management consulting. However saying them to ourselves has limited impact. Many Members have professional media specialists and are adept at using the media, especially the print media. However, many of the smaller Institute's struggle to get media exposure both through the lack of expertise and also through their smaller size gaining less attention.
The attached briefing note has been prepared on the basis of some experiences and from talking to PR specialists. There are some very simple tips which if followed not only increases the extent of the media coverage, but also the quality obtained. The tips are offered as suggestions. The note can not cover every different culture and media arrangement, but it is hoped that all our Members will gain some insights and ideas from the briefing note. We look forward to hearing of improved media coverage of our professional activities.
Best regards,
Aneeta Madhok
Chairperson, 2009-2011
09-07-2009
Globalcmc.com - The web site for all CMCs
Dear Friends,
I am writing to you to introduce the Global CMC web site (previously referred to as CMC Direct)
During many of the international events organized by ICMCI in recent years, the participants felt themselves to be part of a prestigious worldwide professional community, the community of CMCs.
This feeling led many to ask ICMCI to do something to build on this feeling and to establish a worldwide professional community.
CMCI Marketing Committee, together with ICMCI ExCom, focused their efforts in this direction and have chosen, as a first step, to set up a specific web site focused only to CMCs.
Now we are ready to proceed from a development project of the last eighteen months, and we are delighted to introduce to you the www.globalcmc.com web site.
This web site, under the control of ICMCI, is focused to create value and services to all CMCs all over the world. It is a commercial web site where each of us will find the following main categories of services:
- worldwide directory of CMCs: a directory that every CMC can point
to to confirm their qualification and use to locate and interact with
other CMCs (for instance in other countries where their clients are
operating and the first CMC is unsure of the local conditions and
culture)
- blogs and forum available for all CMCs
- wikipedia, articles, links and other information coming form the top
international sources s (Business Schools, Collaborative research
Groups) : all of which will be useful to enable the CMCs to improve
their professional knowledge
- space where CMCs will be available to publish new and interesting
articles and works related to the profession
- space to advertise events, products and services
Please visit the site http://www.globalcmc.com/etc/cmc09.nsf/pages/inframelogin.html
and feel free to login by using
user name: cmc icmci
password: icmci
Being included in the worldwide directory will be free of charge for all CMCs and IMCs, as well as being active and using blogs, forums and wikipedia and publishing articles.
As well as the free of charge services, it is a commercial web site, so that space to advertise events, products and services together with downloading articles, will be charged. It is this commercial part of the web site (and potential sponsoring by sponsors carefully vetted by ICMCI) that the free of charge services will be subsidised, this making the new web site of zero cost to ICMCI, ICMCI Member Institutes and the CMCs
We do believe it is a strong instrument useful for ICMCI to add value to all IMCs as well as for each IMC to their national CMCs. Additionally. clients and stakeholders will have the opportunity to be linked with the CMCs' world finding and checking for qualified management consultants, content and knowledge related with our profession.
We thank Mikael Jensen, CMC Sweden and his institute for their technical and professional support in setting up and managing this new web site. We will work together with them and with all of national IMCs to improve our CMC directory (we want to include all 10000 plus CMCs all over the world) and to promote our services at national level.
In this direction we kindly ask you, as representative of national IMC, to send your national CMC names to both the ICMCI Secretariat (info@icmci.org) and mjensen@exmi.se as the instruction says in the attached MS Excel file (CMC import 2009 Country v3.xls). Please send it as soon as you can. The earlier that we have all the details of all the CMCs the faster will we all benefit from the new facility. Right now we have data from China, Italy and Sweden. We will be asking for this complete data from each Member of ICMCI once a year. The old names will be deleted and the new list added. This will ensure that lapsed CMCs are cleansed from the site on a regular basis.
With your support we will be able to set up new value and services for all CMCs member of a worldwide professional community. A new and effective tool useful for all of us to celebrate our professionalism and the international nature of our profession.
Francesco D’Aprile
Vice Chairman of ICMCI
With your support we will be able to set up new value and services for all CMCs member of a worldwide professional community. A new and effective tool useful for all of us to celebrate our professionalism and the international nature of our profession.
Francesco D’Aprile
Vice Chairman of ICMCI
02-07-2009
By-Law Resolution Vote Results
Dear ICMCI Trustees,
I am pleased to report that the Secretariat has tallied all of the votes received for the recent Resolution to revise the ICMCI by-laws, and the motion has been approved by the required super-majority (two thirds of all Trustees). Of the 54 Trustees eligible to vote, 45 voted in favour of the resolution (83% of the total), 3 voted against the resolution, and 6 Trustees did not register a vote.
As Secretary for ICMCI this term, I thank everyone for their consideration and effort. On behalf of the Governance Task Force that developed the proposal, please accept our appreciation for the strong level of support given to it.
The web site will be updated with the new by-laws in short order. The changes are timely:
• They support the transition to a Swiss Verein organization.
• They allow for regional Institutes, such as the new Caribbean Institute
• They streamline decision processes, allowing for decisions to be taken by a majority of Trustees participating in a properly constituted meeting
• Explicit reference is included for the first time to the Standing Rules
• ExCom is expanded to include two additional Vice-Chairs
• Committee names and roles have been updated to current practice
• Plus a number of other minor changes
In closing, I look forward to seeing you all in London in September.
Sincerely,
Mark Nesbitt, FCMC
Secretary
11-06-2009
Good news
Dear Friends
It is with great pleasure that I tell you of a recent award to which ICMCI was a participant. I quote Gabriel al Salem, Regional Director of EBRD for Kazakhstan:-
"Good news: the Kazakhstan BAS training-of-trainers in Core Consultancy Skills was recognised by the American Chamber of Commerce in Kazakhstan in its annual awards ceremony as the “Most Innovative Education and Training Program”. Our work on CCS was the only entry from the EBRD in this year’s awards competition, and competition was tough – we won over a USD 650,000 oil industry training program of TengizChevroil, the Chevron joint venture working on Kazakhstan’s largest oil field"
I believe this success was due to
• The choice and involvement of partners which made the material relevant and the course attractive to attendees
• Putting the course in the context of building capacity and capability in the Kazakhstan economy and thus ensuring a commercial market for the trainers and the trainees
• A training approach which ensured world class delivery, excellent trainees, reduced set up costs and above all else made the effort self sustaining
• Combining cultural sensitivity with international best practice.
And, above all, having the persistence and tenacity to make all this happen.
The programme on CCS was supported by the KACMC and in particular by Mukhtar Mussabetov who have included the course as one of its four requirements for a developing CMC. The original "train the Trainers" course was provided through Calvert Markham's company Elevation Learning, and we should acknowledge their generosity in freely providing all their training materials for the course to be translated into Russian. The ongoing mentoring support of the Canadian Association, especially Heather Osler and Nick Shepherd is also acknowledged.
I draw considerable pride for us all from this award. It demonstrates ICMCI's ability to provide through its Members effective and valued support to the development of our profession in other countries. We hold that indigenous professional management consultants build capacity and capability into an economy, and the stronger each and every economy the more that all our trades increase and this provides increasing opportunities for our profession.
So, please join me in congratulating the individuals Mukhtar, Gabriel and Calvert and the organisations EBRD and KACMC.
Brian Ing CMC
Chairman ICMCI 2007-2009
PS Gabriel will be a speaker at our London Congress in September. Why not come and hear more?
23-04-2009
ICMCI Web site
Dear Participants in ICMCI.
Some of you will have noticed that the web site has changed dramatically.
We had been preparing to change over to the new design, and had almost finished the first version, when our hand was forced. Some of you reported problems with the old web site. Some of the links gave the wrong pages, other pages were not accessible. One of the reasons for progressing to an new web site that could be maintained by the ICMCI Secretariat (with all their backup of systems and people) was the identified risk of the old arrangements whereby a single contractor was responsible for maintenance. This was demonstrated to be important early this April. When the site began to malfunction, no contact could be made with the contractor. This lasted for over a week with no sign of a resolution, and the decision was taken to switch over earlier than planned to the new design. This was done at the beginning of last week. Some of the wording was rushed through to enable this to happen, but can be amended properly in the near future.
You will notice that the web site makes the CMC the focus of every page and is a modern layout for a business web site. There are several other benefits:
• The ICMCI Secretariat can amend the structure (adding new pages, and
new branches of the hierarchy), change the text and the layout, add
items to the library all without the use of the external contractor
• Our hosting fees are reduced through having a single host (under the old
arrangement we had www.icmcistatic pages linked to the web site and
these were hosted separately, and we had both the .org and .com web
sites on more expensive hosts than our new arrangements).
• We can at last close the www.icmci.com website that had the old
consultant Directory (that had not been updated during at least the last
four years); It was advised that this had to be kept live because our old
website at www.icmci.org shared a common database of names.
• We can control the lists of names on committees to have the chair first
and the rest in alphabetical order (or in Country order if we so wish and
it is appropriate)
• There is a now a Members section, that is Member Associations and
Institutes, and soon all Members will be able to update directly their
Association details (including trustee names and contact details): the
Secretariat will inform people separately of the arrangements for this.
• The cost savings of the new site will repay the development cost
(including the most expensive part, namely the graphics design) in a
matter of a few months
• We can now update the list of Members: welcome to the Philippines a
whole seven months after their admittance!
So, what have we missed off that should be on the web site? What do you feel is poorly expressed? This is your web site and we would hope that you are now proud of it. If you are, please tell us.
Yours in consulting
ExCom and the MOS Secretariat
02-04-2009
It is one of ICMCI`s key objectives to create an international consultancy award. Austria`s CONSTANTINUS award is a step forward.
CONSTANTINUS AWARD
CONSTANTINUS is Austria’s most important and dynamic IT and consulting professionals’ award. UBIT - the Austrian National Professional Association for Management Consultancy and Information Technology - has created the CONSTANTINUS to promote excellence in consulting and IT-services. The CONSTANTINUS has so far been awarded since 2003 on an annual basis and has become the leading national award for knowledge-based services. It has been recognized by the Austrian Federal Government as the sole qualifying process for the Federal State Award 'Consulting/Knowledge based services'.
By opening the award to all ICMCI and FEACO members during the last few years, the CONSTANTINUS award has also become internationally.
The CONSTANTINUS will be awarded in 5 regular categories and 3 special awards, one of them being called 'Constantinus International', dedicated to cross-border consulting projects.
This international category is open for all members of any FEACO or ICMCI member organisation.
The award ceremony will take place in Lower Austria on June 16th, 2009 - Save the date!
We would like to ask you, to encourage the members of your institute to take part in this award and to submit an application to the CONSTANTINUS Club.
Furthermore, we would like to invite the presidents and general managers of the institute, all nominees and award winners to the award ceremony on June 16th, 2009.
This ceremony will be held in a famous Austrian castle and highlighted by a multimedia show on the topic: energy in life and in consultancy.
CONSTANTINUS APPLICATION
Being part of this is easy: Just go to www.constantinus.net (English version) and register for participation. The whole process is carried through online. Take your time and file in your best consulting project until April 17th, 2009.
In May 2009 an international jury will decide on the winners.
Scope of projects
Any applicant may submit up to two international projects completed before April 17th, 2009. International means, that the customer for whom the project has been completed is located outside the country of the applicant or that a significant part of the project (2/3 or more) has been executed and installed/submitted outside the country of the applicant.
The project must relate to one of the following disciplines:
* Management Consultancy (MC)
* Personnel and Training (PT)
* Networking and Infrastructure (NI)
* Information Technology (IT)
* Open Source Software (OS)
Criteria for participation
Applicants must
* be a member of a FEACO or ICMCI member association
* have customer´s approval for the publication of the project
* submit the completed application forms online by April 17th, 2009
(free of charge)
* allow publication and featuring in public (press, TV etc) by
CONSTANTINUS CLUB in Austria, by FEACO, ICMCI and by the local
association
Kind regards,
Ilse Ennsfellner
Vice Chair ICMCI
25-03-2009
Making a difference in countries where the SMEs are suffering with the global crisis.
Dear All,
I was fortunate enough to attend last week a workshop with the EBRD (European Bank for Reconstruction and Development) representatives responsible for developing the small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) in countries such as the Central Asian Republics and the Western Balkans. ICMCI has a close and productive relationship with EBRD and I am seeking your help to to reinforce that relationship.
EBRD TAM (Turn Around Management) has a three month project to put together ideas and concepts to provide practical help to the SMEs in these countries. SMEs that are being proportionally harder hit by the current global financial crisis than the SMEs in longer established economies. They would like our ideas. What they are seeking is mechanisms for leveraging the advice. For instance "Conserve Cash" must be a message for these businesses but how to get that across is more difficult. Remember these companies are run by entrepreneurs who have little experience of previous recessions.
I am aware of two of our Members having initiatives to help overcome some of the negative effects of the crisis in their own countries. In Singapore , the local Institute has a scheme with the national government for time limited on the phone free advice to companies. In the UK courses are being run for recently redundant managers to prepare them for consultancy (and to weed out those for whom such a career change is not suitable).
I am sure many others of you have taken local initiatives - or considered some that for practical reasons you have not been able to implement. I would like you in the next two weeks to send me all these ideas. If you are not sure, please still send. I will edit them together and send them to EBRD. I will also report them to you all in a briefing note.
I am convinced that in these difficult time it is our responsibility to be helpful to those who could become casualties of the current turmoil, especially those in economies without the resilience of past success. I have every faith that you will support me to continue this view with your ideas and suggestions.
Yours in consulting in troubled times
Brian
Brian Ing CMC
Chairman ICMCI 2007-2009
24-03-2009
Briefing Note 3 - Celebrating International Consultant's Day
Dear Friend and Colleague,
I am delighted to send you the third briefing note for Members. It covers the celebration of International Consultants' Day. This has developed from an original suggestion in 1999 and is in many countries becoming an annual celebration. The note draws together current practice and makes some further suggestions. I recognize that not all the suggestions will be culturally appropriate for everybody, but please use the paper to review your own practices and consider improvements. I must thank Calvert Markham for his assistance in the preparation of this briefing note.
These briefing notes are interim and occasional papers in advance of our Marketing Committee providing coherent support for all the marketing activities. That notwithstanding, I think there are some useful considerations for us in the briefing paper. I would be pleased to hear your comments.
The next briefing paper is expected to be on the means of getting a Press Release published, you will have done the hard work of preparing it and you should hope for a high probability of publication. There are techniques and advice which should raise the probability of publication.. This will be not so much derived from best practice amongst our Members, rather it derives from best practice elsewhere.
Yours in consulting
Brian Ing CMC
Chairman ICMCI 2007-2009
Briefing paper No. 3 >>
19-03-2009
Dear fellow Trustees,
It is my duty to inform you all of the recent vote on the resolutions arising from the Singapore meeting in September 2008. I confirm that 43 votes were cast, out of a maximum possible of 54. The process was in accord with the procedures and bylaws of ICMCI.
On the finance resolutions:
|
Resolution |
For |
Against |
Votes cast |
|
Finance resolution 1:“Accept the 2007-08 Treasurer’s report”
|
40 |
3 |
43 |
|
Finance resolution 2: “Approve the three principles for the structuring of the fees in the future, and applying the World Bank economic factors for 2008-2009”, |
40 |
3 |
43 |
|
Finance resolution 3: “Approve the proposed budget for 2008-09 (including an 8% fee increase on average, and the expense plan)” |
35 |
8 |
43 |
The requirement for a resolution to be adopted by ICMCI is for a 50% majority of Trustees to vote for the resolution. This requirement would be achieved with 28 (27 plus 1) votes for a resolution. I declare that all three resolutions have been adopted.
Of the 43 voting Trustees, 5 made comments on the composition of the Nominations and Succession Planning Committee. The comments from 4 were on the basis of the need for such persons to all have attended many ICMCI meetings. Another added the need to consider having representatives who would assist spreading ICMCI Membership in areas of the world where the representation was poor.
Peter Sorensen has commented that the criteria for the committee covers both the 2009 elections and also identifying and encouraging involvement from those countries and Trustees who have not yet been active on the committees; hence the full title of “Nominations and Succession Planning Committee”. It was thought that three of the committee provided enough coverage of the active attending Trustees, and that the overall composition enabled ICMCI to engage better in finding talent for the future ICMCI from all our Members. Brian Ing, who will by the bylaws of ICMCI be the next Chairman of the Nominations Committee, has told me that he has noted the comments and will consult broadly on the formation of the next Nominations and Succession Planning Committee.
I am delighted to see a nearly 80% participation by Trustees in the vote. Thank you.
Kind regards,
Mark Nesbitt
Secretary ICMCI
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