Staffing the CIP Program at AIIM

As I posted earlier, AIIM sent out an email last week summarizing the CIP Town Hall on March 18 and providing a link to a survey. One of the lines in the email jumped out at me: 

" It is the intention of the AIIM staff to continue to develop the CIP curriculum and examination with regular updates. Two members of the AIIM team have been tapped for content development and CIP lifecycle management."

I reached out to AIIM to learn who those two members were, and was informed that it was Peggy Winton and Theresa Resek. For Peggy, I find this a little odd, given that Peggy has already announced her intention to step down as President, unless the thought is that she would remain on staff in some capacity. 

When I left AIIM in August 2021, Theresa was already running the Market Intelligence program full-time, including webinars and managing the production of AIIM's research papers, eBooks, and other assets. She was also managing the production of AIIM+ Pro training modules. I have nothing but the utmost respect for her experience, her attention to detail, her time management, and her willingness to do what is necessary to get things done. 

But I think CIP needs a full-time person. The work needed just this year, to update the now-compromised CIP exam and related study guide and training materials, will require significant resources. That's before any awareness, partnerships, marketing, outreach, or anything else I posted in my list of suggestions. 

And if, as AIIM also stated in that email, 

The body of knowledge upon which the exam is based and the exam question set should be updated on a regular basis.

those become an ongoing effort, and that's before figuring out how to address the actual exam form construction, test validation, score setting, etc. The paragraph above continues, 

Efforts in this regard have begun at the staff level and will be expanded to include select CIP content advisors in this calendar year.

So again, I don't know where Peggy and Theresa will find the time to do that in the short term, i.e. this calendar year. If Theresa is doing CIP on the more or less full-time basis it will require in the short term, I wonder what AIIM's plans are for Market Intelligence and AIIM+ Pro...?

I do think that having a body of CIP content advisors is a fantastic idea, but they will require care and feeding as well, as even the best-intentioned volunteers will run into issues with work, and life, and other things that get in the way.