Everyone enjoys the company of like-minded people. This is so because they can leverage their shared experiences and expertise to foster the development and adoption of best practices.
Here are some of the ways how associations facilitate these practices:

• Curation: There is an enormous amount of information out there about the issues, challenges and trends in business world. We are constituted by people well versed with these tools and processes, have insights to separate the wheat of meaningful information from the chaff of buzzwords and press releases.
• Conduct Research: There are research works often conducted in associations to identify and explain trends, benchmark existing practices. Research can help to identify gaps but those are the associations, who address these gaps. We facilitate the development of whitepapers, info graphics, and other assets that help in explaining issues, gaps and solutions to different audiences.
• Develop Certifications: We develop and issue certifications or other credentials that reflect an individual’s understanding of their industry and the accepted strategies, processes, and practices to meet their organizations’ business needs.
• Provide a Shared Mental Model: As industrial practices and processes evolve over time, we at the association play a central role in the identification, development, and evolution of the body of knowledge at the core of a particular process or practice. This helps to standardize vocabulary and ways of thinking about particular issues such that conversations can take place across organizational boundaries and within organizations across departmental or work unit silos.

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• There are other benefits that we provide ranging from advocacy, lobbying and philanthropy. It might also provide you with discounts on various products like conferences, training registrations and health insurance.
• One can be a paid Professional member of FIM and also be a member of other professional and trade associations.