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INTERMAN is an international association of management development associations. INTERMAN was established in 1998 as an association de fait, in accordance with the Belgian law. It was hosted until end June 2003 by the efmd (European Foundation for Management Development) and since July 2003 by AACSB International - The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business.
Management development associations anticipated many of the needs of their members - schools and corporations alike- for services targeted towards the above mentioned challenges. Following a landmark project between North America and Europe in the late seventies and the expressed need to broaden the antenna systems of management education beyond these two regions, leading associations from across the world decided in 1985 to form INTERMAN, a loose and flexible "network of networks" with the support of the International Labour Organisation (ILO), United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), other development agencies, and a few forward looking international companies. The termination of the ILO/UNDP projects that provided base support for INTERMAN in the past offered associations and their members the unique opportunity in 1998 to take full responsibility for the global network and jointly give a new impetus to their cooperation, building on their respective experience, strengths and leadership.
In a world characterised by growing globalisation and interdependence, management educators throughout the globe have a collective responsibility to enhance the learning process of private and public managers as change agents and drivers of sustainable socio-economic development. This charge must be implemented against a background of intensive competition and profound shifts in the nature of learning that radically affect the way companies and government agencies consider their investment in people development and its impact on performance. Consequently, business schools and other providers of management education are rethinking the way they operate and interact with their clients. Partnerships, mutual learning, and networking across all kinds of boundaries -geographical as well as organisational- are increasingly seen as an integral part of their policies and programmes.
Collaboration among associations in the INTERMAN framework is guided by the overall aim to strengthen networks and their internationalisation process, to provide their members and stakeholders with services that they cannot offer alone, and to promote diversity in best management practice for a globalised world.
INTERMAN objectives and activities include:
Contributing actively to the Global Forums.
Helping to structure and disseminate data gathered electronically at Global Forums.
Identifying successful organisations around the world, documenting innovations in management development, and developing materials for dissemination.
Gathering information and promoting better practices on evaluation, accreditation and quality improvement experiences and needs world wide
Promoting collaboration, partnerships and exchange at interregional level amongst schools, enterprises and other organisations.
Identifying and listing resources and teaching materials for sharing.
Supporting the development of networks' management
INTERMAN member associations as of July 2003 are:
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AACSB International – The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business |
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ADSGM - Association of Deans of Southeast Asian Graduate Schools of Management |
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AIMS - Association of Indian Management Schools |
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AMDISA - Association of Management Development Institutions in South Asia |
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CEEMAN - Central and East European Management Development Association |
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CLADEA - Consejo Latinoamericano de Escuelas de Administración |
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WAMDEVIN - West African Management Development Institutes Network |
Membership is open to associations, agencies and other organisations around the world whose mission is the furthering of management education and development, and which have met the membership criteria set by INTERMAN.
Criteria for membership of INTERMAN includes:
being committed to international cooperation as evidenced in statutes, programmes and activities.
For information on joining INTERMAN, contact annette@aacsb.edu
The Global Forum on Management Education is the world's premier conference to advance the global practice of management education. This international gathering normally takes place twice per decade. Global Forum 2005 will be held in Chile, hosted by CLADEA.
The 2002 Global Forum was held in Bangkok, Thailand and was the largest, most comprehensive and most technologically sophisticated event of its type held in Asia. It attracted a worldwide audience of approximately 800 deans, professors and directors from business schools, heads of corporate education and training programs, corporate executives and more, representing 75 nations. Previous Global Forums were held in Chicago, USA in 1998, Barcelona, Spain in 1993, and Montreal, Canada in 1989.
For more information on INTERMAN, contact annette@aacsb.edu
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