The Water Environment Research Foundation, or WERF, funded research that identified business characteristics common among 15 successful Responsible Management Entities, or RMEs. The 72-page report, Business Attributes of Successful Responsible Management Entities, provides guidance to businesses and organizations interested in becoming RMEs.Your definition of success and the authors’ probably differs. They found that successful RMEs had: • technical expertise in treatment technologies through staff or subcontractors; • expertise to manage all RME business aspects professionally; • the customers or financial backing to afford professional management and business staffs;• a governing body that set policy and a professional staff that made
