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Why would someone join CINNOVENT?
Membership in the Cinnovent saves executives time and money by helping them to avoid reinventing the wheel in addressing problems they share with their peers across industries and around the world. Through our shared-cost membership structure, we are able to produce actionable research at the quality standard of the leading consultancies, but at a fraction of the cost.
Does membership require a substantial time investment?
No. In fact, members judge us on our ability to conserve their time – to focus them on the correct set of strategic issues, to compress the time required to review the best current practices, and to weed out the bad ideas quickly. We publish best practices in a highly structured, graphical format that is meant to allow for rapid evaluation and assessment. Our executive education and research services help to compress time-to-implementation in even the most progressive companies.
With whom do you work at member institutions?
Our member relationships generally provide the most value when they are housed with the senior-most executive dedicated to that function, who is able to direct our strategic research agenda to enterprise-level concerns and focus our resources on the organization’s most critical priorities. With this overall direction, we are then able to interact on a day-to-day basis with direct reports and other functional staff throughout the member organization.
Why do the best companies share their practices with you?
Three reasons in particular stand out. First, the most progressive companies recognize that a network has value to the extent that individual companies participate in it – and that no company (themselves included) is best at everything. Second, members have discovered the “two-way value” present in interviews with our researchers and the value of findings from research under way. Finally, we are meticulous about member confidences. Members should feel comfortable that any information shared with our research teams is completely confidential unless and until they authorize its release.
Are members required to share information with you?
No. Members choose whether or not to participate in individual research projects, as schedule and preference permit. However, more than 90% of our members participate in our telephone and on-site interviews, generally reporting that they learn as much as they contribute through their interactions with our research staff.
Who is allowed to attend a member meeting?
We convene two types of meetings: Principals-Only Retreats, in which we preview research and manage discussion among our senior-most member contacts, and Staff Briefings, sequenced and designed to accommodate large numbers of interested staff members. Attendance at the former is limited to the senior-most functional executive, but all of our forums are designed to offer a “members-only” environment, free from consultants, vendors, and the media.
How can you provide unmetered service for a fixed annual contribution?
We have attempted to structure the membership experience so that virtually all services are available in unlimited quantity to members – as many copies of studies as are desired to communicate our findings, as many attendees at our Staff Briefings as members find useful, and unlimited access to our online resources. Some services – such as the annual on-site visit or short-answer research – require limitation or queuing for reasons of cost and logistics, but it is our overall intent that members feel free to call on us without fear of additional charge.