Sponsors: 
Hedrick Associates  Crowe Horwath  CPR  Metrics Reporting  Microsoft |
| Sponsor Recognition Our sponsors help make ITMA possible, please support them when you can. Below is a list of our sponsors and their primary ITMA Contact. Hedrick Associates Eric Lanning lanninge@hedrickassoc.com Crowe Horwath LLC Cullen Hunter cullen.hunter@crowehorwath.com CPR Pete Koelzer pkoelzer@cprgr.com Metrics Reporting Andy Catlin andy.catlin@metricsreporting.com Microsoft Matthew Morris mmorris@microsoft.com |
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| 2009 Stats Shows Increase in Member Attendance and Value The ITMA Steering Committee has listened to your feedback, modified meeting topics and used your input to help us improve our meetings. |
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| This year, we have seen a significant increase in attendance, and our average meeting score. Please take into consideration, as you evaluate your ITMA membership for the coming year, that members are receiving noticeable jumps in value than in the past and that quality programming at ITMA is a direct result of keeping our membership rolls healthy and growing. |
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| Below are some additional statistics from our meetings: | |
| Jan – May 2007 | Jan-May 2008 | Jan – May 2009 | |
| Average Rating (on a 5.0 scale) |
4.1 | 4.3 | 4.5 |
| Companies Sending Entire Work Teams | 1 | 3 | 10 |
Several companies also reported that as a result of sending entire teams within their IT department, they were able to get more data and accomplish some great progress on projects. If you as the director or executive in your shop cannot attend a monthly meeting, please consider forwarding the evites to other staff members and send them in your place. Finally, below are a few comments from our meeting evaluations. |
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| • | Great presentation, very relevant content, right depth and background. |
| • | Content was very relevant. Speaker was top notch. Very very good. |
| • | Lots of great information Breakout sessions were great. |
| • | The CIO Panel discussion was insightful. |
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| ITMA Return on Investment One of the important projects going on in the second half of 2009 is intentionally collect and document stories or "incidents" where ITMA members or guests receive actionable information at meetings and immediately create results for their companies. ITMA would like to ask you to begin to think through the ways that the ITMA monthly meetings or encounters with other members have added to the bottom-line or created other efficiencies for your company. We will be following up to gather your feedback in the poll that we have planned for the fall. The following statements (mostly spontaneous) are actual comments from members and concrete ways ITMA has been delivering immediate results for members/ guests in the past year: |
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| • | " This is just our third event we have attended and we have already received the value of our membership fee." |
| • | "From what I heard today, you have probably just saved our company $20,000 on something I learned here even just as a guest." |
| • | "At the last session, I got a tip from one of the presenters and went back to the office and made a $150,000 reduction in my budget." |
| • | "I came as a guest, and already was able to redesign priorities in some of my rollouts. Thanks and I'll be signing up!" |
| Please click on the button below and send us a note to tell us what you have been able to deliver back to your company because of your ITMA membership and attendance at meetings. Otherwise, stay tuned for someone to contact you in the near future and have a thought or two in response to our friendly poll. | |
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Introducing the 2009 ITMA Steering Committee |
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Terry Yax Co-Chair |
Tim Dechant Co-Chair |
Kurt Ludlow |
Brian Loken |
Doug Drenth |
Kevin DeVries |
Charlie Dunn |
Robert Krestakos |
| John Vancil VP Information Technology Nucraft Furniture Co. |
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| ITMA Welcomes New Members & Sponsor We are pleased to announce the addition of 2 new members since January of 2009. |
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| • | Metrics Reporting* (Sponsor) |
| • | Christian Reformed Church in North America |
| We want to extend a warm welcome to our new members and sponsor as we seek to further establish ITMA as the valuable regional asset that it is. Help us grow our members More than ever before we have seen an increase in our guest attendance, please refer your IT Peers to ITMA and bring them as your guest to a meeting. There is no additional cost, and guests can attend up to two meetings before we ask them to declare themselves a member. |
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Mark Your Calendars - 2009 Meeting Topics & Schedule
Below are the meetings for the rest of 2009. Always refer to www.itma.net for meeting details and updates.
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August - No Meeting |
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September 10 - Major IT Trends & Collaboration Ideas for ITMA Members featuring Bruce Rogow of IT Odyssey |
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October 8 - Future of Application Delivery – Living in the Cloud |
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November 12 - Business Intelligence |
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December 10 - eDiscovery and Record Retention Requirements |
| Leaders Club Meetings: | |
| • | September 24 - IT Strategic Planning hosted by Greenleaf Companies (Kalamazoo) |
| • | December 3 - Leaders Club hosted by W.K. Kellogg Foundation |
| Facilitated Education Update Here is some mid-summer news for those members who attended the December session with ICEX and Ric Swanborg and/ or are just wondering how our education track is coming. As reported in the last ITMA newsletter, the members that signed up for the special session were very enthusiastic about the world-class knowledge gained and the value received for the day at Steelcase for the intensive training course. It might be stating the obvious, but the slow economy this past spring has been a challenging influence in getting our next session scheduled and rolling. ITMA is pleased, however, to report that based on conversations with ICEX, based on their work with Fortune 100 companies around the country, they are developing a more robust track of high level courses for mid-level manager training now being called Accelerated Education. We are exploring options for putting one of these sessions in motion. The other exciting development is that ICEX is going to be able to make some of these courses available on demand and online. The Steering Committee is discussing various options about how to make these available to ITMA members. Another option being considered is to organize some ad hoc regional "laboratory" events of IT problem-solving and make these available to ITMA members on a local basis. The basis for what will be discussed and researched at these events will come as a result of some polling of the membership being planned for the September timeframe. Stay tuned for further announcements for the exciting follow-up to these continuing developments! |