Barrie Foster & Associates: Qualifications, Professional Bodies & Accreditation

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Accreditation

The wrong choice of consultant can be expensive in terms of time, money and frustration. Commissioning organisations need to ensure competence and appropriate experience. Clients should be confident that their project will be approached with objectivity, honesty and integrity—it serves no good purpose for a specialist to tailor his findings and recommendations to fit the preconceptions and expectations of the client if these are misinformed or misplaced.
      The most immediate assurance available to any consultancy client is reputation, recommendation and a solid track record. Secondly comes demonstrable professional status within the discipline(s) practised, which is somewhat other than simple academic qualifications and hypothetical knowledge. The consultant’s client portfolio provides a third indicator of professional standing and the scale and nature of the projects with which he has been involved. Finally, every consultant will, from time to time, have had to gain accreditation with bodies who verify consultants’ work or who manage subsidised programmes and budgets — although some organisations operate less stringent criteria than others.

Professional Bodies

The Chartered Institute of Marketing
Elected Member via Senior Management Entry route, 1990
Founding Registered Marketer, 1993-98
Founding Chartered Marketer, 1998-

The Tourism Society
Elected Member, 1989
Elected Fellow for significant contributions to tourism, 1994

The Institute of Leisure & Amenity Management / ISPAL
Elected Member, 1991


Past Accreditation
Department of Trade & Industry Marketing Initiative
United Nations International Labour Organisation

Wales Tourist Board
Museums & Galleries Commission
The Development Board for Rural Wales
Welsh Development Agency
West Wales Training & Enterprise Council
TECassure
Wales Quality Centre

 

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Barrie Foster FTS, MCIM, MISPAL, Chartered Marketer
The Old Coach House  Mathry  Haverfordwest  Pembrokeshire  Wales  UK SA62 5HB
Phone: +44 (0)1348 831081  Fax +44 (0)1348 831081  E: barrie.foster1@btinternet.com

 

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“Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgement; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.”

 

Edmund Burke
The Chartered Institute of Marketing provides the route to individual Chartered status for the marketing profession.