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Letter from the Editor March 2012

Posted on March 16, 2012 by marthaspelman | Leave a comment

Greetings IMC-ers,

We have a winner!  Jack Weber of Plus Delta Consulting guessed that the sculpture pictured in last month’s contest is “at the intersection of Duquesne St. and Jefferson Blvd. in Culver City. The picture was likely taken from the Ballona Creek Bike Path.” He is absolutely correct.  For his efforts, Jack wins a gift certificate to Office Depot.  Please read on to see a brief bio about Jack and his consulting practice. To find out more about Jack, please visit: http://www.plusdelta.net/.

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!

This month’s newsletter, in addition to member and chapter news, includes IMC members’ “Social Media Source” (a listing of member’s blogs and social media platforms) – please send us yours! and a “Get To Know…” interview with IMC Orange County board member, Bill Swanson.  IMC is now soliciting nominations for Board Members – see more information below.

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 (on March 20th, don’t miss presenter Mark Goulston at the Ayres Hotel).

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: March 30, 2011

Readers:  feel free to email Martha Spelman with newsletter comments and feedback.  They will be posted with the next issue.  Thank you.
 
* entrants can win only once in a six-month period

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Chapter Breakfast Meetings

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The LAX Breakfast is held the first Friday of each month with the exception of the summer months or if there is a conflicting holiday.  The meeting is held in El Segundo at The Lakes at El Segundo.  Cost – Members: $22.00, Non-Members: $27.00.

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

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IMC SoCal Member News

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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.

  • IMC SoCal members will conduct a panel discussion and networking event with the Pepperdine Graziadio School of Business Consulting Club on March 28, 2012, at 6:30 PM at Pepperdine’s Hughes Center Campus at the 405 and Sepulveda. The panel moderator is Pepperdine Senior and Consulting Club President Dustin Piper. Participating consultants include Marketing Consultant and CMC Jennifer Beever, Finance and Strategy Consultant and CMC Daniel Feiman, Polymer Consultant and CMC Jeff Gotro, Turnaround and Restructuring Consultant Bette Hiramatsu, and Management Consultant and CMC Lynn Hoopingarner. The event will be attended by Pepperdine students and alumni and others interested in becoming a consultant. Feel free to attend and support our IMC SoCal panelists! RSVP to Jennifer Beever at jenb@newincite.com.
  • Daniel Feiman will be presenting Advanced Finance & Global Economics in Cupertino, CA Thursday, March 22
  • THE Book on… BUSINESS From A to Z: is now available for the Kindle. To order please go to http://www.amazon.com/Book-BUSINESS-Important-Backwards-ebook/dp/B007BDPDK6/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1329957293&sr=1-1 & thank you
  • 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
  • Barb Mather is on the home stretch to finalizing her Ph.D. studies, which is why many of you may not have seen much of her lately. But she is alive and well! In addition to her busy consulting schedule at Disney, Barb is recruiting young adults with ADHD, ages 22-28, who work in a structured environment (e.g. office setting). If you know of anyone, please send them along to Barb at 310-348-1959 or bam@matherconsulting.com. She greatly appreciates your help here! Barb will compensate qualifying participants with a $20 Amazon gift card at the conclusion of the interview.
  • Edmund H. Conrow, CMC has written a risk management process guide for the U. S. Government and is working with various Government programs to help implement the material it contains.  Conrow is also the primary author of the risk management section in the DoD funded Systems Engineering Body of Knowledge.  The wiki version 0.5 of the entire guide (1,025 pages) can be downloaded as a PDF file from: http://diana.nps.edu/~dholwell/bkcase/SEBoKWikiVer0.5.pdf Ed Conrow can be reached at: info@risk-services.com

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IMC SoCal Chapter News

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Now soliciting IMC SoCal Board Member nominees: One of the benefits of membership in the Institute of Management Consultants is the opportunity to build relationships by working on committees or small projects with other members of the organization.  That way you can get to know one another well enough to be confident in business project teaming or in referrals to each others’ clients.

Please contact Pete Crosby (PeteCrosby@cgrmc.com, 877-247-4652 x103 or 310-463-3582) or Margaret Chock (MChock@mibchock.com, 310-829-1612) about the role you’d like to play in IMC next year.

We look forward to hearing from you!

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Get to Know…Bill Swanson

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Bill’s bio briefly…

Bill Swanson is the president of CEO Solutions…here’s some more background:

A.      Very large Multi-National (Above 10B) – ultra high technology manufacturing and product systems product solutions (robot brains).  They really do launch rockets (and shoot them down too), they really did split atoms, they really do make the machines that make and test the chips we use in our modern “take-it-for-granted electronics world.

B.      Small market cap, 20 to 60 million, same industry as above

C.      Sales guy

D.      Marketing guy

E.       Sr. Management Team member within each organization

F.       5 years consulting

Describe your consulting business:

CEO Decisions helps Management Teams make superior decisions to drive Revenue creation and Profit generation using customer / market driven data and advanced business analytics. Read more »

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