Qualitative Marketing welcomes Rockwell Electronic Commerce as the newest member of ITAC's Blue Ribbon Panel in recognition of their remote-agent strategy and product line. Other distinctive members include CISCO Systems, Inc., Discovery Financial Systems, Eli Lilly and Company, Herman Miller, Inc., Melita International Corp., Merril Lynch, PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP, and Symantec. "I credit Qualitative Marketing with expanding the BRP to include prestigious high tech companies." said Jack Heacock, President of the International Telework Asociation and Council (ITAC) and founder of ITAC's Blue Ribbon Panel." Roberta Moore, President of Qualitative Marketing serves as Chairperson of the Blue Ribbon Panel's Marketing Committee. She and her team are developing recommended practices for teleworking, which will provide the widest impact for human resources, information technology, home office environment/ergonomic furnishings, facilities, and enterprise-wide practices and processes." "Another panelist, Mr. Jerry Starr, with Qualitative Marketing, is ensuring that an accurate record of the panel's work is available to all participants. His efforts contribute significantly to the overall accomplishment of the panel's work and demonstrate the commitment of Qualitative Marketing and it's management to advancing "new ways of working" and utilizing the enabling tools that industry continues to invent and improve." said Jack Heacock. Heacock called for ITAC's Blue Ribbon Panel to bring business executives together from leading organizations. The purpose of the panel is to develop positive "Standards for Telecommuting Excellence," which can be used as guidelines by business and organizations to develop, implement and manage successfully comprehensive telecommuting programs. The panel will examine and recommend new organizational and human resource concepts and leverage the advantages of technology, codify minimum standards for high performance with environments and provide a platform for organizational advantage and economic benefit. Rockwell Electronic Commerce has been at the forefront of the telecommuting trend. Convergence not only offers robust remote agent capabilities, but also unprecedented international language support. Rockwell is a $7 billion electronic controls and communications company with global leadership market positions in industrial automation, avionics and communications, and electronic commerce. The company employs about 40,000 people at more than 450 locations in 40 countries. Qualitative Marketing's clients include Adobe, Inc., Symantec Corporation, and Dimension Data Systems, Inc. For more information about Association Marketing, contact Qualitative Marketing® at 408-295-5524.