International Council of Management Consulting Institutes
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| Membership organisation | |
| Industry | Management Consulting |
| Founded | 1987 |
| Headquarters | Worldwide |
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Area served
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International |
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Key people
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Sorin Caian, Romania (Chairman); Brian Ing, UK (Secretary);Dwight Mihalicz, Canada (Treasurer); Rob Bodenstein, Austria (Vice Chairman);Elena Yuzkova, Ukraine (Vice Chairman);Kim Karme, Finland (Vice Chairman);Chayaditt Hutanuwatra, Thailand (Vice Chairman);Francesco D'Aprile, Italy (Past Chair);Reema Nasser, Jordan (Executive Director) |
| Services | Consulting Services |
| Website | http://icmci.org |
The International Council of Management Consulting Institutes has since 1987 been the professional body worldwide for management consultants. It exists to:
The practice of management consulting is about "helping organizations to improve their performance, operating primarily through the analysis of existing organizational problems and the development of plans for improvement." with the purpose of "gaining external (and presumably objective) advice and access to the consultants' specialized expertise." It follows therefore that there is scope for an international organization to promote and foster competence in the management consulting profession.
ICMCI has demonstrated that indigenous, competent, professional management consultants add capacity and capability to an economy. Others have shown that on average the achieved benefits of management consultancy assignments are at least three times the fees charged.
Research has shown that:
Developed economies tend to have about one management consultant per one thousand total population whereas developing economies have one for every two thousand. On this basis there are between 2.5m and 3m people who refer to themselves as management consultants in the world.
ICMCI Member Institutes represent countries in all continents that include between 85% and 90% of the world's management consultants.
ICMCI is a membership organisation with the only members being the leading professional body for management consultancy committed to the certification of management consultants in the country of their operation.
ICMCI is registered as a Swiss Verein with its main Council consisting of trustees. Most of the trustees are appointed by the Institutes that are the Members as defined in the above paragraph. The number of trustees for each country varies from 1 to 4 depending on the individual membership by individual management consultants in the country. The remaining trustees are officer trustees voted for every two years by all the trustees, the Officers are Chair, Secretary, Treasurer, and five Vice Chairs. Together these officers form the Executive Committee (ExCom). Reporting to ExCom are various other committees, work groups and task bodies depending on need. Permanent committees include Membership Committee (responsible for overseeing the admittance of new Members and the continuing adherence to the membership requirements of the existing Members), the Professional Standards Committee (which covers all professional matters including Standards), and the Quality Assurance Committee (responsible for checking that all Full Members award the Certified Management Consultant to the agreed Standard using the preferred assessment methods). A Nominations and Succession planning Committee (responsible for the election of officers and identifying and nurturing potential future office-holders) reports to the trustees as a whole.
Other committees always include some trustees but also may have individual management consultant members of the Institutes (and endorsed to be on the committee by that Institute)
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