ONE ASME Concept Focus of Member Assembly at ASME Annual Meeting
ONE ASME Concept Focus of Member Assembly at ASME Annual Meeting
Members of ASME leadership discussed a new strategic approach for the Society, named ONE ASME, during the Member Assembly held on June 8 during the ASME Annual Meeting in Portland, Ore.
ASME Senior Vice Presidents Karen Ohland and Bobby Grimes, and Michael Ireland, managing director of ASME's new Technical Events and Content Sector, joined ASME President Madiha El Mehelmy Kotb and ASME Executive Director Thomas G. Loughlin at the session for a lively discussion of the new organizational plan, which was endorsed and approved by the Board of Governors at their April meeting.
Under the new structure, the Society's Knowledge & Community and Institutes Sectors will be replaced by the new Technical Events and Contents Sector. The individual sections, technical divisions, Institutes, and affinity groups currently under the K&C and Institutes Sectors will remain intact, but will engage with ASME through a new Group Pathways and Support (GPS) system.
"ASME continues to expand its impact on the global landscape of engineers and engineering, and the concept of ONE ASME is helping to achieve that," President Kotb said during her opening remarks. "ONE ASME is a new approach to working collaboratively across the Society, with an increased focus on the needs of the global engineering market."
The program continued with a short video highlighting the many efforts that ONE ASME will touch — everything from conferences, journals, ASME.org to initiatives in areas like Advanced Manufacturing and Energy. Afterwards, the five leaders participated in a discussion of the new organizational plan, which aims to encourage participation in ASME, leverage the expert knowledge of its members for content creation and conference programming, and ensure that ASME's resources are effectively applied to projects with the most value to advance the Society's mission.
"ONE ASME is about uniting the organization and getting out of our silos," Ohland, K&C senior vice president, said during the panel discussion moderated by ASME's executive director. "It will allow us to leverage the impact of what we do across the board, and allow us to get great return on investment on our activities. We can't be everything to everybody. But if we're all pulling together, we will be able to build on our successes."
“This is one of the most exciting times ever at ASME,” added Grimes, senior vice president of the new Technical Events and Contents Sector. “Yes, we have often operated within silos. But if we leverage the strengths we have, we believe we can do much better.”
More information on ONE ASME will be made available in coming months. Be sure to check upcoming issues of ASME News for details of the new organizational plan as they develop.
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