IIE / CIE / CIEADH RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT

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IIE / CIE / CIEADH RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT

Overview

The leadership in the extended ISE community can be portrayed as consisting of three key constit- uencies. First is our professional society, the Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE). Second is the academic institutions that teach and certify competency in the knowledge and skills of their graduates, who then become practitioners. This important group is represented by The Council of Industrial Engineering Academic Department Heads (CIEADH). Third is the Council of Industrial Engineering (CIE), a group of ‘‘executive sponsors’’ of ISE in major organizations from around the world. There are other groups in the ISE community; these are three we have chosen for this discussion.

Communication and coordination among these three groups will be essential to our profession achieving full potential. Ideally, from our point of view, CIEADH would view CIE as a focus group of its most influential customers and CIE would view CIEADH as a leadership body representing their supplier organizations. Both CIE and CIEADH would be viewed by IIE as essential customers, suppliers, and stakeholders. IIE would serve both CIE and CIEADH as the organization that en- courages and supports lifelong learning and continued personal and professional development for ISE practitioners and as their professional society for life. The leaders of all three organizations would accept their roles as stewards of our profession and our professional society.

Relationship Management

As we’ve said so many times to this point, much depends on relationships in the context of core values. ISE will achieve full potential in the years to come if and only if those in leadership positions in the three constituencies acknowledge their mutual dependencies and manage their interrelation- ships. If we truly want our profession to realize its full potential and make the contribution it is capable of, we will opt for improved relationships.

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