Transcript TC-20050310-016_ OMF Major Items of Interest.ppt

Report to Organizational Member Forum
Major Items of Interest
from
Board and Executive Committee Meetings
Presented by
Judith Gorman
and
Fran Schrotter
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ANSI Board Meeting
• ANSI Board met on December 9, 2004
and took the following actions:
– Approved the 2005 Framework for Action
• Ten Major Priorities were identified by ANSI’s
President and CEO
– Approved the 2005 Budget
• Revenue: $18,925,000
• Expenses: $18,825,000
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ANSI Board Meeting
• Board actions cont’d
– Approved the proposed By-laws revisions and
directed management to submit them to the
membership for approval
• By-laws subsequently approved by the membership in
January 2005
– Appointed Dr. George Arnold to serve a third one-year
term as Chairman of the Board
– Appointed Mr. Stephen Oksala to continue serving as
Vice Chairman of the Board for a three-year term
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ANSI Board Meeting
• Board actions cont’d
– Approved a refined model and dues schedule for
company members
• Effective January 1, 2005 for new company members and
effective January 1, 2006 for current company members
– Companies may choose either Basic or Full
membership status
• Basic membership: $495 with access to a la carte offerings
for an additional fee
• Full membership: 10 tiers ranging from $750 for companies
under $100 million in sales revenue to $25,000 for
companies over $10 billion in sales revenue
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ANSI Board Meeting
• Status reports were provided on the
following:
– National (United States) Standards Strategy
– Nanotechnology Standards Panel
– ANSI’s China Policy
– Homeland Security Standards Panel
– Executive Committee Copyright Ad Hoc
Group
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Top Ten Priorities for FY 2005
• Priority One
– Finalize the revision of the United States
Standards Strategy (second edition) and play
a major leadership role in USSS promotion
and implementation efforts
• Priority Two
– Develop strategic relationships with China to
foster closer cooperation on standardization
strategies, issues and concerns in areas of
mutual interest.
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Top Ten Priorities for FY 2005
• Priority Three
– Promote standards panels as a mechanism to
address standards coordination and facilitation needs
related to emerging national priorities.
• Priority Four
– Expand accreditation programs for conformity
assessment bodies that effectively serve the needs of
specifiers and are accepted through enhanced
recognition by federal government agencies.
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Top Ten Priorities for FY 2005
• Priority Five
– Work to secure increased funding from government
dues, grants and contracts by increasing our service
and product offerings to Federal agencies and the
states.
• Priority Six
– Increase total member count by at least 10% and
improve the membership retention rate to at least
90%.
– Enhance relationships with and increase membership
from consumer organizations, organized labor, and
non-governmental organizations.
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Top Ten Priorities for FY 2005
• Priority Seven
– Develop and initiate a long-term University
Outreach Strategy to promote the integration
of standards and conformity assessment
content in program curricula.
• Priority Eight
– Ensure integrity and consistency in the
promotion, application and use of ANSI’s
brand.
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Top Ten Priorities for FY 2005
• Priority Nine
– Enhance and promote the ANSI eStandards Store as
a one-stop shop for standards and work to increase
the number and breadth of available standards
collections.
• Priority Ten
– Take full advantage of the legal and financial skills,
training and experience of ANSI’s newly expanded
business development team when developing new
programs, services, grants and contracts.
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ANSI Executive Committee
Meeting
• ANSI Executive Committee met on
February 24, 2005 and took the following
action:
– Approved a recommendation from the
Finance Committee that an expenditure of
$100K in 2005 be approved to develop a
strategic marketing plan for the publication
sales business.
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ANSI Executive Committee
Meeting
• President and CEO, Mark Hurwitz,
announced his intention to retire at yearend 2005
– Announced formation of five person Search
Committee representative of each of the
Institute’s major membership categories and
selected from Officer group and Board
– Goal is to have new CEO in place no later
than January 2006
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ANSI Executive Committee
Meeting
• Executive Committee approved the
membership of the Search Committee:
– John Bergen, Chair
– Arthur Cote, Organizational Member and Vice
Chair of the Board
– Linda Golodner, Consumer Member
– James Matthews, Company Member
– Mary McKiel, Government Member and Vice
Chair of the Board
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ANSI Executive Committee
Meeting
• Search Committee will select Search Firm
and will provide periodic reports to the
Executive Committee and the Board:
– May 5, 2005
– July 25, 2005
– November 17, 2005
– December 8, 2005
Board Meeting
ExCo Meeting
ExCo Meeting
Board meeting
• Board input on CEO qualifications
requested by March 18, 2005
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ANSI Executive Committee
Meeting
• President reported on plans to increase P
membership and Secretariat fees effective
January 1, 2006
– President and COO to meet over next two
months with those organizations most
impacted.
– New assessments will be announced by endApril 2005
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ANSI Executive Committee
Meeting
• President announced that George Arnold
will be advanced as a candidate for ISO
Vice President, Policy
• The schedule of events for “World
Standards Week 2005” is being
restructured to create additional
efficiencies and minimize expenses
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