Special Report
Strategic Meetings Management
A one-stop information source about strategic meeting management programs.
Corporate Role Models
Surviving Six SigmaWhen it comes to meeting management, Pricewaterhouse- Coopers is a trailblazer. Do you use meeting cards? PwC helped to invent them. Have you launched... Tomorrow, the World: The Inside Story of AIG's Strategic Meetings Management ProgramWhen an AIG senior executive arrived in Shanghai for a high-level meeting in 2004, he noticed AIG signs in his hotel... Fortune 500 Companies Form Their Own Group to Focus on SMMPThe Meetings Competitive Advantage Forum... Deloitte & Touche Realigns Meeting DepartmentMARGARET MOYNIHAN, director of strategic meetings and projects for the Global Conference Group of Deloitte & Touche, based in Wilton, Conn., has learned... |
Insights on strategic meetings management from Jan Hennessey, CMP, CMM, Fireman’s Fund InsuranceOne on One: Interview with Jan Hennessey, senior director of Fireman's Fund Insurance Co., in charge of leading a new internal planning department ... ING Creates a Best Practices Meeting for Its In-House PlannersHow do you create cohesiveness among your meeting planners when they sit in offices from Phoenix to Denver to Hartford? At financial services giant ING,... |
Procurement Practices
How Key Performance Indicators Apply to MeetingsWith the success of strategic sourcing, companies are starting to apply another procurement practice to their meetings: key performance indicators. Take... What Procurement Thinks of the Meeting DepartmentJim Haddow has had his eye on meetings for quite some time. As chief procurement officer at A.T. Kearney, Haddow had been purchasing space and services... |
Procurement’s involvement in incentive travel purchasingJack Eichhorn has seen both sides of the equation. Having made the shift about a year ago from meeting planner at another high-tech company to procurement... |
The Finance Connection
How to Get the CFO’s AttentionGetting buy-in from the chief financial officer is a critical component of implementing a strategic meetings management program. But for some meeting... |
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The Business Travel Link
Companies are Putting a Higher Priority on Mandating Travel PoliciesCorporations are putting a higher priority on mandating employees' use of business travel booking policies, according to BCD Travel's 2007 Annual Client... NBTA 2007 focuses on Meeting-purchasing Best PracticesTo get a sense of how big a role meeting professionals are beginning to play in the National Business Travel Association, NBTA COO and Executive Director... |
New Affiliation Between ACTE and the American Purchasing SocietyBridging the gap between corporate meeting professionals and procurement executives, the Association of Corporate Travel Executives, Alexandria, Va.,... |
Global Meeting Consolidation
How Companies in Three Industries Took Their SMMP GlobalA decade ago, few companies thought about consolidating their meetings globally. You could count on one hand those actually attempting it. Not so today.... Highlights From an ACTE Panel on Global ConsolidationInstituting a strategic meeting management program in the United States is one thing; expanding it globally is quite another. Corporate travel and meeting... |
Research on SMMP
MPI’s 2007 Futurewatch surveyThere's no question that strategic meeting management is no longer just the purview of a handful of Fortune 500 companies with large, centralized meeting... |
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