Procurement’s involvement in incentive travel purchasing

May 01, 2007

Jack 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 exec at Redwood Shores, Calif.-based Oracle, Eichhorn is well-versed in the nuances of the...

Learning from the Pharma Pros

Apr 16, 2007

Approximately 40 senior planners from more than 20 pharmaceutical companies conducted a closed-door summit during the Pharmaceutical Meeting Planners Summit, co-organized by Medical Meetings and the Center for Business Intelligence and held March...

Focus on the Mission

Apr 01, 2007

As we move into the second quarter of 2007, all of us — meeting planners and suppliers — are facing many challenges. Some of the challenges are anticipated and planned, but new ones seem to be cropping up every day. The “squeaky wheel” vies for...

Education, Not Entertainment

Mar 01, 2007

As a 25-year veteran of the pharmaceutical meetings industry, Carol Krugman, CMP, CMM, is familiar with the perception that many meeting professionals have of event marketing — that it's about glitz and parties and that it's not their bailiwick...

MPI’s 2007 Futurewatch survey

Mar 01, 2007

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Get Full Value from Retreats

Feb 01, 2007

When your organization needs to gain perspective on a situation and initiate change, a retreat is the way to go. Unlike a typical board meeting — where the business of running the organization is the priority — the retreat has loftier goals. The...

ING Creates a Best Practices Meeting for Its In-House Planners

Feb 01, 2007

How do you create cohesiveness among your meeting planners when they sit in offices from Phoenix to Denver to Hartford...

Fortune 500 Companies Form Their Own Group to Focus on SMMP

Nov 01, 2006

Seven years ago, in a landscape more or less devoid of educational outlets for high-level industry professionals, a small group of corporate meeting executives found each other. Their goal: to start a forum to discuss the issues that they were de...

Strength in Numbers

Nov 01, 2006

For a company that introduced its brand to the U.S. market only in 2001, ING has become a big name in financial services. Originating in The Netherlands, ING operates in 50 countries and counts 14 million U.S. customers. The company also gained...

Tell It Like It Is

Oct 01, 2006

I Recently Moderated a panel and roundtable discussion for The Krisam Group's first Executive Summit, held September 7-10 in Las Vegas (for more, see page 9). The theme, which grew out of pre-conference surveys of attendees (Krisam's hotel members...