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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
