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8/1/2012
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What is it that compels people to come together at ACI and freely give their time and share their highly valued knowledge? Our Strategic Plan defines the vision and mission that unites 20,000 individuals from around the world, sharing a common passion and commitment to advancement. Our Strategic Plan enumerates the values that drive us individually and collectively. And, finally, our Strategic Plan provides an overall direction, aligning the Institute's priorities with our external environment—the environment that creates the challenges and opportunities we try to adapt. Mission and values may not change, but the external environment certainly does! Think how our lives and work practices have changed post-social media, post-smartphone, and post-9/11. At its March 2012 meeting, the ACI Board of Direction approved strategic edits to the ACI Strategic Plan. Our updated plan with the approved edits is available online: www.concrete.org/ABOUT/AB_PLAN.HTM. The strategic edits were proposed by an Executive Committee Task Group created by then-ACI President Ken Hover. As Task Group Chair, I was privileged to work with seven individuals, each a long-time ACI member with breadth and depth of knowledge of ACI, recognized technical expertise, and experience on projects, often iconic and frequently outside the United States. The Task Group members included Khaled Awad, ACTS in Beirut, Lebanon; Ron Burg, ACI Executive Vice President and formerly of CTLGroup; Peter Carrato, Bechtel Corporation; Tony Fiorato, Consultant and ACI Past President; Bill Rushing, Waldemar S. Nelson & Co., Inc., and currently serving as ACI Vice President; Joe Sanders, Charles Pankow Builders Ltd.; and John Glumb, ACI Senior Managing Director, who acted as Staff Facilitator. As a Task Group, our charge was to review the current Strategic Plan and recommend to the Executive Committee any tactical updates required—adaptations that reflect changing circumstances. And, boy, changing circumstances were plentiful—some reflect "Accomplishment" and others reflect "Our Changing World." Accomplishment: Consider that in 2008, and for the first time, sustainability was added as one of the Institute's primary goals in the Strategic Plan. Then-ACI President Luis García wrote, "The plan calls for expanding understanding of the sustainability issue among membership, expanding resources to support sustainability issues, increasing the content on sustainability in ACI documents and products, and improving the perception of concrete relative to sustainability." Subsequent to adding sustainability to the Institute's Strategic Plan, ACI Committee 130, Sustainability of Concrete, was established and is now one of the largest of the Institute's 121 committees, with over 140 voting, consulting, and subcommittee members. Under the leadership of ACI Past President Florian Barth, the Concrete Joint Sustainability Initiative was formed and is a flourishing collaboration of an extraordinary number of industry partners, 28 at last count. These accomplishments are reflected in our Task Group's strategic edits, transitioning the Institute's focus and activities from within ACI to outside ACI. Similarly, we saw success and accomplishments toward our goals of Knowledge, Collaboration, Education and Certification, and Membership. Our Changing World: Equally awe-inspiring is how our world has changed. Consider that the Board's last comprehensive review predates iPhones and iPads, mobile apps, and Twitter. Meanwhile, we've experienced a global economic shift from west to east. As we look to the future, adaptations of our Strategic Plan may reflect the further globalization of ACI, social media, building information modeling, and much more. In upcoming ACI Board meetings, we will dedicate some time to discuss these changes, which impact the expectations ACI needs to meet to remain relevant. ACI committees will be asked to have similar discussions. These collective insights will provide the basis for ACI's next comprehensive review of our Strategic Plan, slated for the second half of 2013. Back to Memo List
What is it that compels people to come together at ACI and freely give their time and share their highly valued knowledge?
Our Strategic Plan defines the vision and mission that unites 20,000 individuals from around the world, sharing a common passion and commitment to advancement. Our Strategic Plan enumerates the values that drive us individually and collectively. And, finally, our Strategic Plan provides an overall direction, aligning the Institute's priorities with our external environment—the environment that creates the challenges and opportunities we try to adapt. Mission and values may not change, but the external environment certainly does! Think how our lives and work practices have changed post-social media, post-smartphone, and post-9/11.
At its March 2012 meeting, the ACI Board of Direction approved strategic edits to the ACI Strategic Plan. Our updated plan with the approved edits is available online: www.concrete.org/ABOUT/AB_PLAN.HTM.
The strategic edits were proposed by an Executive Committee Task Group created by then-ACI President Ken Hover. As Task Group Chair, I was privileged to work with seven individuals, each a long-time ACI member with breadth and depth of knowledge of ACI, recognized technical expertise, and experience on projects, often iconic and frequently outside the United States. The Task Group members included Khaled Awad, ACTS in Beirut, Lebanon; Ron Burg, ACI Executive Vice President and formerly of CTLGroup; Peter Carrato, Bechtel Corporation; Tony Fiorato, Consultant and ACI Past President; Bill Rushing, Waldemar S. Nelson & Co., Inc., and currently serving as ACI Vice President; Joe Sanders, Charles Pankow Builders Ltd.; and John Glumb, ACI Senior Managing Director, who acted as Staff Facilitator.
As a Task Group, our charge was to review the current Strategic Plan and recommend to the Executive Committee any tactical updates required—adaptations that reflect changing circumstances. And, boy, changing circumstances were plentiful—some reflect "Accomplishment" and others reflect "Our Changing World."
Accomplishment: Consider that in 2008, and for the first time, sustainability was added as one of the Institute's primary goals in the Strategic Plan. Then-ACI President Luis García wrote, "The plan calls for expanding understanding of the sustainability issue among membership, expanding resources to support sustainability issues, increasing the content on sustainability in ACI documents and products, and improving the perception of concrete relative to sustainability." Subsequent to adding sustainability to the Institute's Strategic Plan, ACI Committee 130, Sustainability of Concrete, was established and is now one of the largest of the Institute's 121 committees, with over 140 voting, consulting, and subcommittee members. Under the leadership of ACI Past President Florian Barth, the Concrete Joint Sustainability Initiative was formed and is a flourishing collaboration of an extraordinary number of industry partners, 28 at last count. These accomplishments are reflected in our Task Group's strategic edits, transitioning the Institute's focus and activities from within ACI to outside ACI. Similarly, we saw success and accomplishments toward our goals of Knowledge, Collaboration, Education and Certification, and Membership.
Our Changing World: Equally awe-inspiring is how our world has changed. Consider that the Board's last comprehensive review predates iPhones and iPads, mobile apps, and Twitter. Meanwhile, we've experienced a global economic shift from west to east. As we look to the future, adaptations of our Strategic Plan may reflect the further globalization of ACI, social media, building information modeling, and much more. In upcoming ACI Board meetings, we will dedicate some time to discuss these changes, which impact the expectations ACI needs to meet to remain relevant. ACI committees will be asked to have similar discussions. These collective insights will provide the basis for ACI's next comprehensive review of our Strategic Plan, slated for the second half of 2013.
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