From the earliest days, Inform has taken an interest in furthering our professional knowledge in the areas of workforce planning and benchmarking. This is evidenced through our longstanding partnership and association with the Australian Human Resources Institute (AHRI).
In 2001, the company formed a joint initiative with Corporate Leadership Council (CLC) to create CLC Metrics. This program brought our technology-enabled workforce reporting, benchmarking and analytics program and solutions to companies across USA, Canada, UK and continental Europe. After five highly successful years of partnership and a membership base of 80 companies, we acquired CLC's half share of the CLC Metrics program and this is now being offered exclusively by Inform.
For the past 15 years, we have had strong links with the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) in Brisbane, Australia. Our joint activities include sponsorship of PhD candidates, design and delivery of undergraduate programs, postgraduate accreditation of Inform Academy workshops and Peter Howes' active involvement as Chair of the Management Advisory Committee for the School of Management. During 2005, we launched a partnership with Neller, an HRIS company providing in-house and bureau HR systems solutions.