One step closer towards realizing the vision.(Credit Column)(National Association of Credit Management)

The NACM Board rolled up its shirt sleeves in the past year and began working to create a Strategic Plan for our organization. As most of you know, a strategic plan is a document used by an organization to help align its organization and budget structure within organizational priorities, missions and objectives. This planning process gives both NACM Leadership and NACM staff a systematic method to anticipate and adapt to our ever-changing business environment, which impacts you directly.

An NACM core mission is to position NACM to be your indispensable resource. That very important statement--to be the indispensable resource--set a chain of brainstorming sessions in motion at National head quarter offices, which culminated in the development of a new offering: The NACM Resource Library.

As the staff talked about how they assisted members, on almost a daily basis, by locating and identifying key and critical pieces of information that are within NACM's vast arsenal of propriety material, the answer became more clear: create and build a powerful search engine just for credit professionals.

As a credit professional, just thinking about having the ability to hop on to the NACM web site to search through the time-tested NACM Manual of Credit and Commercial Laws for a piece of critical information by keyword is exciting. But, even more exciting is the speed at which that search can be conducted, as well as knowing that as Manual chapters are updated each year, the new, fresh, updated information will be loaded into the Resource Library! The Resource Library will contain the most up-to-date information available.

Strike up the band, because the Resource Library news only gets better! The Library also includes the textbook, Principles of Business Credit, and the ever-popular Credit Management: Practices and Principles book, to be followed soon thereafter by The Art and Science of Financial Risk Analysis. The archives of Business Credit magazine articles will be searchable by keyword in the Resource Library as ...