CDI early on structured its compensation package(s) to include a significant proportion of incentive pay keyed to its success on the most important issues facing its clients.
CDI was one of the first association-management companies to establish Web sites for its clients and to integrate the sites with their business operations.
CDI first employed video teleconferencing for its clients in 1995.
CDI has a staff member who has earned the Certified Association Executive (CAE) designation through the American Society of Association Executives (ASAE).
CDI established its own outside-the-U.S. operations to ease the way for its largest client, IDRC, to do the same
CDI pioneered the application of the Web to chapter management.
CDI has started two successful associations from scratch: the International Development Research Council (IDRC) and the World Development Federation (WDF).
CDI has a stable staff; the average staff member has been with the company for eight years.
CDI founder H. McKinley 'Mac' Conway pioneered the application of association membership market research in the 1960s.
Beginning in the late 1990s, CDI has attained unparalleled press relations access to such publications as The Wall Street Journal, Fortune magazine, Business Week and the New York Times.
CDI established IDRCNet, a worldwide computer network for its client IDRC, in 1986.
