Larry san; I remember all that very well.  Including some ARMA folks
telling me that I, whether I realized it or not or wanted to acknowledge
it, was a leader in the profession and should get behind the SIM
movement.   My view was that SIM was developed in relative secrecy and
there were attempts to ram it down our throats; and use our association
funds to do so.  Followed up quickly by misinformation spread about
attendance figures at the ill fated SIM conferences; followed up by ARMA's
top hired administrator deceiving members about incorporation filings,
etc.  There were also attempts to use ARMA's mechanisms for partisan
political communications during that time frame.

I thought that all those were more fuel to the fire to oust ARMA's
Executive Director, which happened a few years later.

RIM has always been strategic, and always will be.  We need not change our
names and focus in order to sell more systems wrapped and marketed as total
solutions.  Customers/practitioners (we) wind up with half-baked, warmed
over systems that do not fulfill our needs; and ineffective training
solutions that leave organizations' C levels scratching their heads and
wondering about the professionalism of RIM practitioners.  The vendors
count their money and then figure out new words and acronyms; knowledge,
SIM, content.., what is next?

Off the stump now..., my opinion is that we have a much better functioning
ARMA now than then.  Much more stable too.  Standards setting; training
members; networking; The World According To GARP; those are things in which
I want ARMA to focus.  Guess what; that is what ARMA is doing.  We may have
had to go through all that ten years ago in order to refocus our profession
on the basics and then look forward through viable and sustainable lens.

For the relatively simple days of BBQ sauce wars ...     The ARMA Annual
Conference is in Chicago again this year.  I am once again in the Utilities
sector...; deja vu all over again?  Maybe the breeze in Chi-town will not
be as cold and cutting as it was in 1998; the Hawk was out.

Best regards, Steve
Steven D. Whitaker, CRM

On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 1:44 AM, Larry Medina <[log in to unmask]>wrote:

> So has the evil that was killed off in 2002 "risen from the dead" again?
>
> After the blood bath that took place the LAST TIME "SII" was trotted out, I
> seriously never expected to see it resurface in association with ARMA.
>
> Maybe it's just time for "associations" to start playing the alphabet soup
> game and start throwing a bunch of acronyms against the wall until
> something sticks??
>
> "...that must be followed by a SIM Roadmap and Plan design process that is
> best developed by an organization's internal SIM design team with help from
> an external SIM coach."
>
> Sims to me that's a lot of simmering with not much hope of anything coming
> to a boil.  Are these the next "tools for sale" and where are the pods
> where these 'external SIM coaches' are being grown?  Memory reminds me last
> time, there was a plan to form a whole new association, using funds
> collected from membership dues of people that hadn't been told anything
> about the grand plan.
>
> "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
>
> I think many of us understand the concept of managing ingormationing
> strategiclly, or developing a strategy for information management. but
> there's no need to make a product set out of it and "brand" it.... nest
> thing you know, someone is gonna throw an (R) after it.
>
> Larry
> [log in to unmask]
>
> --
> *Lawrence J. Medina
> Danville, CA
> RIM Professional since 1972*
>
>

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