Membership

MEMBERSHIP
The Chartered Institute of Corporate Management and Strategic Planning operates five categories of membership.
These are:

• Associate
• Member
• Fellow
• Honorary Fellow
• Corporate/Institutional

MEMBERSHIP CRITERIA

ASSOCIATE (ACMsp)
The applicant must possess a minimum of ND, NCE, HND, First Degree, Advanced University Diploma or its equivalent in business/management related areas, or an entrepreneur (business owner) or Chief Security Officer, with not less than three years management experience. Any person serving at Supervisory or Managerial level in a management consultancy/manufacturing firm may be considered.

MEMBER (MCMsp)
The applicant must possess a minimum of PGD, MBA/MSc or its equivalent in Business/management related areas. A person with first degree, with three years experience, serving at managerial level in a management/consulting firm, service or manufacturing or government parastatal/ministries may be considered for membership.

FELLOW (FCMsp)
Fellowship is the highest level of membership. It is only granted to outstanding persons who have excelled in the professions, commerce and industry with a minimum of MBA or MSc or its equivalent, with not less than eight years experience.

HONORARY FELLOW (Hon.FCMsp)
Honorary Fellowship may be granted to any person who in the opinion of the Governing Council has contributed or rendered outstanding services to the promotion of CICMSP objectives.

DESIGNATORY LETTERS
The followings are the designatory letters used by CICMSP members after their names:

• Associate – ACMsp
• Member – MCMsp
• Fellow – FCMsp
• Honorary Fellow – Hon.FCMsp

CORPORATE/INSTITUTIONAL MEMBER
Corporate or Institutional membership is designed for management/business consultancy firms, manufacturing companies, financial/educational institutions, or corporate organizations, or government parastatals/ministries which have operated for not less than five years, with a minimum of five employees. One or two chief executive/s of such firms must be Full Members of the CICMSP.

INDUCTION OF NEW CICMSP MEMBERS
New members are periodically inducted into the growing membership of the CICMSP in Nigeria. Republic of Benin, Ghana and U.S.A. respectively. Registered members are notified after registration.

SPECIAL CORPORATE MEMBERSHIP BENEFITS
Corporate membership entitles you to receive 50% discount on seminars and courses. You are also entitled to advertise at 50% discount in the ‘MANAGEMENT STRATEGY NEWSLETTER’, which is the medium for CICMSP’s periodic news, business opportunities, conferences, seminars, courses, trade missions, investment and world trade news for members worldwide.

You are entitled to print and/or quote your corporate membership in your business stationeries. You are qualified to nominate and/or sponsor yourself or an employee of your company to attend any of the Institute’s local or foreign trade missions.

THE SCOPE OF CORPORATE MANAGEMENT
The scope of Corporate Management and Strategic Planning is concerned with the complexity arising out of ambiguous and non-routine situations with organization-wide rather operation-specific implications. This is a major challenge for managers, consultants, corporate executives and professional security personnel who are used to managing on a day-to-day basis the resources they control.

It can be a particular problem because of the background of managers who may typically have been trained, perhaps over many years, to undertake operational tasks and responsibilities. For example, Accountants tend to see problems in financial terms, while corporate marketing managers in marketing terms, and so on.

Each aspect in itself is important, but none is adequate alone. The manager or management consultant who aspires to manage, or influence strategy needs to develop a capacity to take an overview, to conceive of the whole rather than just part of the situation facing an organization. Because strategic management is characterized by its complexity, it is also necessary to make decisions and judgments based on the conceptualization of difficult issues.

Strategic decisions are likely to be concerned with or affect the long term direction of an organization.

Strategic decisions are normally about trying to achieve some advantages for the organization.

Strategic decisions are likely to be concerned with the scope of an organization’s activities.

Strategic decisions can be seen as the matching of the activities of an organization to the environment in which it operates.

Strategic decisions are therefore likely to affect operational decisions.

The CICMSP Membership has been designed to exhaustively equip you with the different applications of Corporate Management and Strategic Planning.

Membership of the CICMSP will guarantee one the broad and thorough knowledge of problem-solving situations that will equip one for effective and strategic decision-making responsibilities in Business, commerce and industry.