The IAM strongly believes that we must engage in life long learning, both on the job and in the classroom, to continually upgrade and expand skills. The partners jointly develop and deliver educational programs that enhance and build on the skills of all employees, ensuring their ability to actively participate as equal partners. This is important because in a partnership people take on new roles and responsibilities, and they need the education to fulfill these new roles. In the global marketplace change is the only constant. The partners have to create internal flexibility to deal with new technologies, and to provide new products and services that meet their customers' needs.
Education is key to developing flexibility.
Continuous Integration of Leading Edge Technology that builds on the skills, knowledge and insights of frontline workers. Real improvements in productivity and quality come from the ideas of people. Technology is a tool that helps us do our jobs better and create opportunities for growth. Technology becomes part of a strategy to save and create jobs not a method of eliminating them. A Co-determined Definition of Quality and its continuous measurement and improvement.