This is a recently introduced and well-organised process. Bulgaria now has 33 CMCs and 34 member organisations. Canada has completely reorganised its focus around non-CMC people. The latest venture is with an on-line organisation providing remote training and distance learning. They have now introduced one national institute in place of seven with considerable financial savings.
Local chapters are now for networking.
They have 3,500 members with most of the increase coming from expansion in Ontario. A useful recent development has been a government assistance programme for small business, which provides three days funding for initial consultancy, which can only be made available by CMCs. Cyprus now has 150 practices and 250 people in membership. Peter Sorenson was retained as a consultant to the IMC to help work out a new strategy for attracting consultants back into membership. This went through 19 different versions over two years.