MONTHLY PROGRAMS
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Upcoming
Events
The AITP
Board of Directors regrets to inform you that our planned Family Picnic on June 27th will
not take place. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause you and hope to
bring this event to you again in the future.
Please look for our next event on July 16th. Details forthcoming at
www.aitp-charleston.org.
July 16, 2009
Dinner Meeting
**We are
currently accepting Sponsors**
**Speaker and Topic to be announced**
Registration/Social Hour: 5:30 - 6:30 pm
Dinner: 6:30 pm
Members:
$18.00
Students: $15.00
First Time Guests: $20.00
Guests: $30.00
Please RSVP to the RSVP
Email Address.
Welcome New
Members:
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| Mike Campbell |
Tom Nawrocki |
| Beth Evans |
Ron Schulze |
| Sara Folk |
James Turner |
| Russell Moser |
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Renewals:
| Jerry Beckley |
Brian Head |
| Michael Cortright |
Kevin Moore |
| Kristie Cumbee |
Frank Muehlenkamp |
| Ryan Davis |
Hal Shuman |
| Sherry Deese |
Richard Wood |
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Letter to the Members from
Your Association President
By: Deborah Lovell
Posted: 2009-02-02 15:29:59.0
Editors' note: This article has been cut into 2 parts. Please be sure to see the second
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It was an honor to meet so many of our leader volunteer members at the recent
2009 AITP Members Summit held in Dallas. It is a pleasure to hear so many great
suggestions and I welcome your continued input to help us convert our 2009-2011 strategies
to action and achieve our desired goal - AITP making a difference today and for the future
of the IT profession.
Due to time constraints during the Annual Meeting of the Members, I was a little
disappointed that I could not deliver my heartfelt message on the "unveiling" of
a new AITP. However, having the honor to personally present our new logo, vision and
mission statements, and newly created core values - along with watching our Association
Directors present the 2009-2011 strategic goals, I am very satisfied that my core message
was successfully delivered.
You will find the entire Annual Meeting presentation which includes all my slides by clicking
here. Please note: This file is run from Internet Explorer (it is converted
from PowerPoint); Slide 44 has a fairly large video and may take time to download when you
press play; and Internet Explorer will ask to install the "MS Office Animation
Runtime" for the slide transitions, but you can view the presentation without it.
I encourage you to view the History of the Industry and AITP video on slide 44 and the
video link "Essence of Leadership" on slide 89 and hope you find them
inspirational.
Transformation is a Journey, Not a Project
As we begin this journey to transform our association, we thank you for joining us. With
over 6,000 voices unified as one, we have the power to start leading the IT profession
instead of following; delivering value aligned with the true needs of the new IT
professional; and just simply, becoming better leaders, better people.
Echoed by our esteem panel of speakers at the Summit, there is a pressing need in our
profession for integrated leadership of business and technology. As professionals advance
their careers, there is a need to advance their skills. Oddly, most people maintain their
technical or other job specific skills as their first priority and miss the leadership
components. Remember, no matter how sophisticated the technology, it still takes people!
And professionals with leadership skills make the difference.
This message resonated throughout every presentation - from our leadership experts to the
CIO from 7-11 Corp, to our distinguished keynote EVP of Microsoft, to our CIO panelists,
to our Annual Meeting of the Members - that AITP is positioned to lead the IT profession -
as the society of professionals focused on the integrated leadership of technology and
business.
How did we get here?
For many years, AITP has worked to meet the needs of the membership and the Association's
purpose from a short term perspective. Industry's global direction has been leading our
profession and we have simply been reacting. We all know that AITP needs to:
? Grow membership
? Improve morale of leader volunteers
? Optimize operational processes
? Deliver "true" benefits as valued by our members
? Significantly improve conversion of students to professional status
? Serve multi-generational members while valuing our current members who are or have
entered retirement age
The "quick fixes" over these past years have kept AITP alive but have also
impacted our bottom line and the loyalty of our membership. The "just react"
infrastructure of AITP has slowed its growth. The sustainability of AITP is now the
pivotal focus.
Through data gathering over the past few years, it became apparent that the need to
position AITP for immediate and long term action is now and our strategic vision needs to
drive growth. Quite simply, we find ourselves needing unprecedented change. To cite a
famous quote by Jack Welch:
If the rate of change on the outside exceeds the rate of change on the inside, the end is
near. |
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