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What's Behind IMC?

Founded in 1968, the Institute of Management Consultants (IMC) is the leading association representing management consultants with members in the U.S. and overseas. It is an outgrowth of combined efforts by the principal associations and societies in the field to establish management consulting as a self- regulating profession, meriting the same public confidence and respect as medicine, accounting or law. Toward the achievement of this goal, IMC provides the essential attributes of professionalism:

• A publicly acceptable means of verifying the qualifications of individual practitioners.
• A Code of Ethics governing professional practice.
• An organization of professionals devoted to advance the profession, to administer its programs and to maintain its standards.
• The primary purpose of the Institute of Management Consultants (IMC) is to serve as a voice for those in the field and to establish professional and ethical standards for management consultants.

What's Behind The CMC?

CMC is the preeminent designation earned in the management consulting profession.

In selecting management consultants, managers are well advised to seek individuals who meet the profession's standards of competence and ethics. The CMC designation is a valuable aid in this quest. Certification by the Institute of Management Consultants is the mark of excellence among management consulting professionals. Twenty thousand consultants from over twenty nations have now been awarded the CMC by one of the certifying institutes which comprise the International Council of Management Consulting Institutes. The CMC qualifications of all national institutes meet a minimum global standard recognized by all. IMC USA is a founding member of the Council, established in 1987 to advance worldwide certification.

CMC Certification

When you see the initials CMC following a consultant's name, it means that he or she is a Certified Management Consultant and has met strict certification requirements of the Institute of Management Consultants. The Institute was founded in 1968 by the principal associations in the consulting field to establish publicly recognized standards of competence and professional conduct for the individual management consultant. Applicants for Institute certification undergo thorough investigation of their consulting experience; they are interviewed by a panel of senior consultants to verify their technical competence; and they must pass a written examination evidencing their familiarity with the Institute's Code of Ethics, which they have pledged in writing to follow.

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