IEEE Strategy Activities

The Envisioned Future establishes goals, core values, and a vision for IEEE far into the future and helps us focus on directions for success. Here are examples the goals we established and what we are doing to achieve them:

• Goal: Industry professionals and their employers will value IEEE as a major resource to achieve success.
  
  Achievements: IEEE continues to build relationships with industry. IEEE renewed a memorandum of understanding with Boeing Company to collaborate on technical meetings and other activities with its staff. Industry professionals are increasingly using IEEE’s 1.8-million-document digital library to achieve success. In 2007, IEEE publications were cited 96 000 times in patents —four times as often as any other publisher.

• Goal: IEEE will improve the professional competencies of students and professionals through education.
  
  Achievements: IEEE has committed resources to such offerings as IEEE Expert Now, which presents interactive Web-based courses based on tutorials and workshops given at IEEE conferences. The Teacher In-Service Program, designed to improve how science and math are taught in the classroom, has reached several hundred preuniversity teachers worldwide.

• Goal:  IEEE will increasingly be valued by the global community as a catalyst for a balanced dialogue on technology-related issues.
  
  Achievements: Conference digests and journal articles are key technical sources, and IEEE continually examines emerging areas for new conferences, publications, and tutorials and short courses. The IEEE Standards Association enhances global adoption of IEEE standards through partnerships with the International Electrotechnical Commission, the International Organization for Standardization, and the International Telecommunication Union.

• Goal: The public will increasingly value the role of IEEE and technical professionals in enhancing the quality of life and the environment.
  
  Achievements: In 2008, we launched a multiyear public visibility effort including celebrating IEEE’s 125th anniversary in 2009.  Our objective is to promote IEEE and the contributions of engineering, science, and technology to society. In 2008, IEEE initiated a major focus on the application of engineering, science, and technology to address societal problems—part of the Envisioned Future. Members are becoming involved in humanitarian programs around the world, including the UN Foundation’s Humanitarian Technology Challenge and GEOSS, an Earth-monitoring system involving more than 70 nations.

• Goal: IEEE members will increasingly find value and enjoyment through their involvement in the organization.
  
  Achievements: Volunteers are IEEE’s lifeblood. Efforts began in 2008 to improve the experience as volunteers, develop programs to attract volunteers, and provide volunteers with training and support to enable their growth and increase their satisfaction as volunteers.

• Goal: IEEE will operate as a model global association, with aligned purpose, energy, and infrastructure that facilitates the development and execution of coordinated strategy.
  
  Achievements: In June 2008, the IEEE Board of Directors reaffirmed its commitment to the Envisioned Future and the strategic planning process, and organizational units and staff departments began to align objectives to support its goals. Continual progress toward our Envisioned Future is a challenge that volunteer and staff leaders at every level willingly undertake for the future of IEEE.

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Last updated: 09 January 2009