SCS Exco 2014 planning day

Planning day event for 2014. Presentation about "Membership" and "Professionalism"

Transcript

1. Membership (team 3) “Forced by the boss, stayed for the friends”
2. Networking • Find lobang for job • Career opportunity • Making friends • Professional network • Part of group with similar interest • National body • Professional body • Companionship
3. Coercion • Bo Bian (no choice) • Asked to represent “community” (wink, wink) • Forced to join • Chak's handsome looks • My boss asked me • Follow leaders (boot licking perhaps)
4. Growth • Grow own profile • More meaningful than ITMA (yay!) • Passion for quality • Conference and Seminars at member rates • Knowing the trends • Learning inexpensively • Opportunity to contribute • Giving back to community • Skillset development • Cross pollination of ideas • Getting out of group think
5. Growth (ii) • Knowledge sharing • Thought Leadership • Uncovering new trends beyond company • Professional Recognition – Maintaining CITPM
6. New ideas • Podcasts • Webcasts and targeting trends • Replayable events • Benefits for membership referral (recommend three new members, get 5 hours of mentorship) • Create new areas of interest in IT sector • Fun and Profit • Target polytechnic graduates • Target recent managers • Support groups, content and training ... • Clear value proposition for young professional (long story) • Getting new women members • Link up with other organizations like People Assn and ITMA • Networking games in InfoPier
7. Professionalism (team 3) The voice
8. Professional Standing • Thought leadership – Making it visible to the public ie beyond SCS • Needing to be the voice of the IT • IPDF to be bigger than the IT • Standing of individual • Standing of industry – good governance • Ethics
9. Professional Standing • Engaging with the press (?) • Social media plan • “Crisis management” - being proactive • Media standing • Local stories of IT nerds • YOUTH council • ITPM for students • Security “certification” for students
10. Professional Standards for Industry • NICF validation – SCS should be leading it • CIO “category” within SCS • Internship -> Apprenticeship • “HIMSS”-level like certification for IT • Driving education into IT early than into an “A” level program • SCS booth at IHL and secondary school open houses • Branding of “SCS – The ICM Society” • InfoPier as the certification database/trigger for certification