Why the EC Institute?

• EC practitioners have long talked about professional certification

  • Past efforts have met with little success
  • Desire for objective EC educational resources

• Other industries formalize independent professional certifications as they evolve

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While there have been efforts in the past, they failed either because they didn’t have a broad base of support, were too closely identified with a vendor, or they just died from lack of interest. The teaming of higher education institutes and industry ha

Also, there are many other industries in areas related to EC which have their own professional certifications: purchasing management, cash management, computer security, etc. The vision of the Institute is to tie all these related areas together somehow