Future of Chambers

Visit the ACCE Microsite on the Horizon Initiative: Chambers 2025 to learn how chambers can adapt and evolve over the next decade, and how will they ensure that their best days are yet to come. In 2014, ACCE launched the Horizon Initiative Task Force to tap into collective chamber wisdom and other resources. Our goal was not to tell you what chambers would do or be in 2025; we sought instead to identify influences and how they might shape chambers and their regions. This Chamberpedia page collects more chamber examples and resources.

ACCE Resources

• Horizon Initiative: Chambers 2025 - Eight Influences Shaping the Next Decade for Chambers of Commerce - Full text report in PDF
• ACCE's Video Series on Chambers 2025
• See also: ACCE President Mick Fleming speaks on the Chambers 2025 Eight Influences during the closing keynote at the Texas Chamber of Commerce Executives' Annual Conference in Frisco, Texas, June 23, 2015.
• Download the Horizon Initiative workbook, released June 2015
• ACCE LinkedIn group discussion

Surveys & Research

• QuickPoll on the Chamber Professional (November 2014)
• Shaping the Future: Solving Social Problems through Business Strategy; Pathways to Sustainable Value Creation in 2020 - Report from the Committee Encouraging Corporate Philanthropy (2010)

Chamber Examples

• The Charleston Metro Chamber of Commerce (S.C.) summarizes eight mega trends that will require Chambers to evolve and adapt over the next decade and outlines how they are responding and preparing to respond to these trends.
• The Chico Chamber of Commerce (Calif.) CEO Katie Simmons presented on The Road To Why at the 2017 WACE conference. The presentation focuses on the "why" of serving members and includes the organization's new mission statement and 5 key values to guide the Chamber's work now and in the future.
• The Fort Collins Area Chamber of Commerce (Colo.) outlined the Horizon Initiative: Chambers of the Future to their chamber board for effective involvement and planning.
• Horizon Initiative Outline
• Horizon Initiative Presentation

See additional examples of the Horizon Initiative and Future of Chambers in ACCE's Samples Library.

Articles & Blog Posts

• The Ninth Influence: Limitations of Government, by ACCE authors, Chamber Executive magazine (Spring 2017)
• Drop the Dread. Engage the Excitement!, by Mick Fleming, Chamber Executive magazine (Summer 2015)
• Horizon Perspectives, by several authors, Chamber Executive magazine (Summer 2015)
• New Horizons, by Tom Baldrige, CCE, and Mick Fleming, Chamber Executive magazine (Summer 2015)

Presentations

• The Drivers of Change: Preparing Your Organisation for the Future by Sue Froggatt, Membership Excellence Conference, April 2016
• Emerging Hybrid Membership Models by Mick Fleming, ACCE and Greg Melia, ASAE for the Chambers Congress, June 2015
• See also Greg Melia's presentation on 10 Lessons for Cultivating Member Commitment (PPT)
• ASAE published a study on "Exploring the Future of Membership" (2014), available to ASAE members. Contact HERO@acce.org for help obtaining a copy of this study.

Webinars & ACCE U Resources

• Chamber of the Future: Defining Tomorrow (strategic planning) - In the second of our Chamber of the Year Award Winner webinar series, the leadership of the 5-Star Accredited Billings Chamber of Commerce (Mont.) describe the Chamber’s award-winning "Chamber of the Future: Defining Tomorrow" program. Though its member satisfaction rating was high and the organization was fiscally sound, the Billings Chamber was not content to sit on its laurels. (Feb. 2016 ACCE U Webinar)

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Last Updated: 7/20/2017