Hello Rochester Section,
I want to welcome you into the New Year with an update of what your section has been
involved with during our season of revitalization and growth. Your Executive Committee is
hard at work implementing the strategies to help our Section reemerge as not just one of
the society’s oldest Sections, rather our goal is to solidify ourselves as one of the
healthiest Sections in the global community.
Let me share with you our five-fold strategy and vision to drive the success that our
Section will enjoy for many years to come:
- We will continue to nurture and feed the outstanding instrumentation, systems and
automation needs in the membership community, client/ vendor relationships and the general
industry we serve with excellent education, training, and skill building events through
our seminars and programs.
- We have changed the business model from the time-based culture i.e. the traditional
model of “that’s the way we’ve always done it”, to a performance-based
model business model that anticipates need and adapts to changes in the business climate.
This performance-based model challenges every result we get and will no longer accept the
unacceptable. We will no longer pass problems forward to the next administration. We
shall, as leaders, deal with all business critical issues to a satisfactory conclusion.
- We have in place a highly motivated, ultra energetic committee of help and talent that
is committed to the longer-term goal of a strong Rochester Section. The committee shall
leave a legacy of ISA Rochester as being your most valuable resource for addressing
instrumentation, systems and automation requirements.
- We shall make our tabletop exhibition the showcase of shows throughout the region. Look
for draconian improvements in nearly every area of the exhibition.
- We shall engage you, more directly than ever before, to help us become successful in
reaching our very challenging yet, very obtainable goals of fully serving the Membership
and the general process and automation community. However, without engaging you our every
effort is in vain. As your president, I am formally asking you to consider your talents
and abilities and how you can apply those resources to a community that can only reach its
full potential with your participation. After some consideration please contact anyone
serving on the executive committee, including myself, to participate in the winning.
In conclusion, I thank you for all you have done and continue to do in making ISA
Rochester a proud and successful organization that is committed to satisfying your needs
for instrumentation, systems and automation.
Your servant-leader,
Mario A. Cash, President
