The ICFM, the business car industry’s leading training body, is one of BusinessCar Live‘s event partners.
The ICFM will be on hand to answer questions from business car managers and other company car professionals.
As well as being present in the show area, the ICFM will be chairing a series of Q&A sessions where visitors can ask a panel of experts questions pertinent to their fleet and their business.
The ICFM was founded in late 1992 by nine well-known fleet managers in answer to a call from the fleet industry for an organisation to be established to train and educate car fleet managers and to establish recognition for fleet managers within the industry and commerce in general.
The ICFM has five main stated objectives:
* To provide a high quality formal training programme specifically aimed at car fleet managers leading to an academic qualification recognised and accepted by the car fleet industry as the requisite for the profession.
* To foster and promote the profession of car fleet management within industry and commerce.
* To advance the profession through research into all aspects of car fleet management and communicate the findings to its members.
* To develop the use of best practice relative to the environment and safety
* To encourage members to communicate their knowledge through the writing of articles, papers and text books and create a centre of reference for the benefit of members.
Recently appointed chairman Roddy Graham, who is also a BuinsessCar blogger and commercial director for LeasedriveVelo, also has his own aims for the organisation.
“My dream is that it gets to a stage where firms only recruit people who are ICFM trained with a professional set of standards.
“Only 10 years ago staff recruited into a purchasing department did not need any training qualification. These days you can’t get a job without one.
“People don’t insist on a qualification, but in our industry I want to raise our profile with HR, procurement and head-hunters, so that they do.
“We no longer live in a world where interested amateurs can survive. I don’t think we should have unqualified people controlling such big budgets.”
