Where in LA is this?

In this Issue:

• Letter From the Editor
• Chapter Breakfast Meetings
  
• LAX Breakfast Friday, June 1, 2012 featuring Turnaround Consultant, Bette Hiramatsu
• Letter From Nick Juarez, IMC SoCal Chapter President
• IMC SoCal Member News
• IMC SoCal Chapter News
• Save the Date! Technology for the Consulting Practice, Tuesday, September 18
• From our Orange County Chapter: Outsourcing  R&D: Opportunities and Challenges
• “Get to Know…” Jay Marks
  
• Special Feature: IMC SoCal’s “Social Media Source”
• Wanted: IMC Volunteers
• Next Newsletter Deadline May 31, 2012
  

Marsha Lewin, IMC Fellow and CMC correctly guessed the Getty Museum as last month’s photo subject.  Please read more about Marsha in our Members News section below. Thank you to those who entered – please try again this month!

Would you like to be a winner, too? To encourage readership of our newsletter – and awareness of upcoming events — IMC SoCal is sponsoring a photo contest:  “Where in LA is that? “  Name the location shown in the photo here and you could win!* The winner will be drawn from all accurate guesses emailed to: martha@marthaspelman.com within 24 hours of the newsletter’s online publication. The winner will receive a $25. gift certificate to Office Depot!

Where in LA is this?

We begin this month’s issue with a letter from SoCal Chapter President, Nick Juarez, wherein Nick discusses the value of becoming a CMC.  In addition, National is offering a discounted CMC application fee valid until July 31^st.  See more information on this following Nick’s letter.

By now, the votes are in electing our upcoming Board Members – which will be announced in the June Newsletter.  This month’s “Get To Know…” interview is with IMC SoCal member and senior advisor in organizational development and human relations, Jay Marks.

IMC SoCal continues to offer the educational component of its overall mission via the LAX and OC breakfast meetings as well as quarterly evening meetings and presentations. To find out more, please visit new local IMC website (http://www.imcsocal.org) which allows members and those interested in IMC to more easily find IMC SoCal online, view upcoming events and keep abreast of important IMC news!

Get Seen! Email me any news about your practice – upcoming events, noteworthy accomplishments, etc. to share with other readers.

IMPORTANT:  PLEASE ADD “MAILCHIMP” TO YOUR EMAIL WHITELIST

Be Sure to Join the LA Chamber!:  IMC SoCal is also pleased to announce that members may now join the LA Chamber of Commerce as an Associate Member for only $100. per year.  See below for more information.

Important:  Join the IMC Southern California LinkedIn Group and participate in the discussions – or start one of your own!

– Martha Spelman

Newsletter Editor / Marketing Chair

Contact: Phone (310) 670.5300 or email at martha@marthaspelman.com

Deadline for the next newsletter: May 31, 2011

For more information, contact: Jennifer Beever at jenb@newincite.com

In the very long ago, before there were management consultants, in many places people who had special skills formed guilds to provide a certain amount of training and oversight for those who practice within their trade, like carpenters, weavers, shoemakers, etc.  In time, these guilds grew great in importance and influence and some of them are still around. The modern day guilds now are made up of physicians, accountants, lawyers, barbers, beauticians and many more, and the oversight and regulations are provided by the various state governments. We management consultants are an independent lot and by and large in the United States we have not wanted the government telling us how to conduct our business or who should be in our business. We have taken it upon ourselves, through the Institute of Management Consultants, to provide certification, ascribe to a code of ethics, provide education seminars on various aspects of the profession of management consulting and many more activities that are intended to assist individuals in other ways.

If you make the investment of time and effort, these are major guaranteed benefits you can bank on:

Earn the Certified Management Consultant- CMC designation that demonstrates the highest level of excellence and ethics in consulting.

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In the USA alone, there are 20 Chapters you can call home.

If you are a sole practitioner, you will never be alone.

Interested in becoming a Certified Management Consultant (CMC)? 

IMC USA is offering a special application fee of $250 ($100 off the regular rate of $350) to qualified professional members who complete and submit their CMC Applications by July 31, 2012. To take advantage of this offer, enter the following promotion code:  2012CMC.

We are making you an offer to enhance your differentiation and join the less than 1% of all consultants who have achieved this level of performance.  Don’t delay click here https://imcusa.site-ym.com/?page=CERTHOW and learn more about the designation and complete the CMC® application.

Marsha, our first IMC SOCAL Lifetime Achievement Award winner and FIMC, was the winner of this month’s photo contest, thus proving that retirement provides more opportunity to engage in identifying our picture’s location!

She was editorial director of the Journal of Management Consulting, has been active in the consulting professional associations since 1977, has held far too many national and local offices, and loves the profession and her colleagues in it.  She created a million dollar practice that specialized in innovative information systems strategies and implementation for private and public sector clients over more than 40 years.

Marsha holds a variety of degrees, certifications, and awards, and has authored four books, one of which (The Overnight Consultant) was a Book of the Month Club Main selection in its Money Books Division.  She wrote and spoke extensively on project management and effective management consulting topics. She continues to mentor management consultants, and can be reached at marsha@marshalewin.com.

Daniel Feiman

Daniel was interviewed by Steve Strauss for Steve’s small business podcast on How to Start a Consulting Practice. The podcast interview went out on 4.11.12 @ http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/small-business-success-steve/id513369432

Daniel facilitated Supply Chain Management simulation in Chicago for ISM on April 23-25 at the AMA conference center.
Read a detailed interview with Daniel covering his latest book, background & his firm at Shoestring Ventures @ http://goo.gl/zmgVO

Daniel Feiman is Managing Director of Build It Backwards, a consulting & training firm Turning Roadblocks into Roadmaps(SM) based in Redondo Beach, CA. He can be reached at dsfeiman@BuildItBackwards.com or 310.540.6717

CGR Management Consultants, LLC

The City of Philadelphia Port Authority as retained CGR Management Consultants, LLC to conduct a management audit.  CGR has many CMCs within their ranks, including Jim Ayers and Pete Crosby, members of the SoCal Chapter of IMC.  For more information, contact: petecrosby@cgrmc.com

New book? Workshop? Speaking Event? Award or Accomplishment? Please be sure to send news about you and your practice to Martha Spelman: martha@marthaspelman.com