IATI -About

What is the International Alliance of Technology Integrators (IATI)?

IATI membership is made up of principals of similar companies (network integrators) from non-competitive marketplaces. Membership in a group is limited to 15 members. The profile of a member company: has 10-75 employees, is striving to be more service oriented and has been in business more than 3 years.

How did IATI get started?

IATI originally started out in early 1998 as a teleconference group of Network Integration company principals. The teleconference members were from non-competing markets and met every 2 weeks via phone. After an exciting year of trading, ideas, documents, business plans and more, the members decided to meet face-to-face. It was at this meeting that they all saw the benefits of creating their own organization and the foundation and mission of IATI was built.

Since that meeting IATI has continued to improve their member companies through regularly scheduled teleconference calls and semi-annual retreats in a member city or at least a warm city in the winter. Retreats have been held in Vancouver, San Diego, Minneapolis, Florida and Boston. The 2002 Spring Retreat is scheduled for late-Spring. IATI is vigorously growing the power of IATI membership by adding vendor partners (Financial Management, Industry Research, Exit Planning Strategies and most exciting of all, a new billable client engagement process called Value Focus Relationship.

How does the IATI program work?

IATI is an organization of teleconference groups consisting of up to 15 CEO's or principals of technology integration companies. Each is from a non-competitive market, so the members can be free to speak in detail and get detail from other members without the worry of competition.

The principals get together every other week to discuss different parts of their businesses in a structured, facilitated call. IATI members also meet twice a year on a retreat to work on specific topics sharing their experiences and insight. Additionally, IATI provides a document vault and intranet for participants to share their documents (business plans, contracts, employee handbooks, non-disclosure agreements, Service Level Agreements, etc.) Finally, IATI works with vendors to secure group rates for marketing, lead generation, webinar seats, and other services that benefit the group.

		What is IATI? How did IATI begin? How does IATI membership work?

	Officers: Scott Davis, Executive Director Ivan Steinberg, President Carolyn Gold, Vice President Brian Huber, Treasurer PAST Presidents Shirley Collier John Gallacher Scott Davis		What is the International Alliance of Technology Integrators (IATI)? IATI membership is made up of principals of similar companies (network integrators) from non-competitive marketplaces. Membership in a group is limited to 15 members. The profile of a member company: has 10-75 employees, is striving to be more service oriented and has been in business more than 3 years. How did IATI get started? IATI originally started out in early 1998 as a teleconference group of Network Integration company principals. The teleconference members were from non-competing markets and met every 2 weeks via phone. After an exciting year of trading, ideas, documents, business plans and more, the members decided to meet face-to-face. It was at this meeting that they all saw the benefits of creating their own organization and the foundation and mission of IATI was built. Since that meeting IATI has continued to improve their member companies through regularly scheduled teleconference calls and semi-annual retreats in a member city or at least a warm city in the winter. Retreats have been held in Vancouver, San Diego, Minneapolis, Florida and Boston. The 2002 Spring Retreat is scheduled for late-Spring. IATI is vigorously growing the power of IATI membership by adding vendor partners (Financial Management, Industry Research, Exit Planning Strategies and most exciting of all, a new billable client engagement process called Value Focus Relationship. How does the IATI program work? IATI is an organization of teleconference groups consisting of up to 15 CEO's or principals of technology integration companies. Each is from a non-competitive market, so the members can be free to speak in detail and get detail from other members without the worry of competition. The principals get together every other week to discuss different parts of their businesses in a structured, facilitated call. IATI members also meet twice a year on a retreat to work on specific topics sharing their experiences and insight. Additionally, IATI provides a document vault and intranet for participants to share their documents (business plans, contracts, employee handbooks, non-disclosure agreements, Service Level Agreements, etc.) Finally, IATI works with vendors to secure group rates for marketing, lead generation, webinar seats, and other services that benefit the group.